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4 November 2024 CinFina Pharma, a CinRx portfolio developing a portfolio of treatment options for obesity, has presented positive top-line interim results from its Phase I single ascending dose (SAD) study of CIN-110 and final data from its multiple ascending dose (MAD) study of CIN-109.
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Ring Therapeutics, a biotech based in Massachusetts, USA, has announced strategic partnerships with Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) and the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). 5 November 2024
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European regulators will decide by December 6 whether Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk, can finalize its $16.5 billion acquisition of contract drug manufacturer Catalent. 5 November 2024
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AstraZeneca has presented early results on three experimental weight-loss drugs at the ObesityWeek conference in San Antonio, showing encouraging signs for its obesity pipeline. 5 November 2024
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California, USA-based biotech Nektar Therapeutics’ shares closed up more than 8% at $1.33 yesterday after it announced the sale of its only manufacturing facility. 5 November 2024
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Pharmaceutical M&A came back with a bang during October, after a quiet September. 5 November 2024
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Spanish drugmaker PharmaMar Group today said it has received a payment of $10 million from Janssen Products, a Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) company, after reaching a commercial milestone for Yondelis (trabectedin). 5 November 2024
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Photocure, a Norway-based bladder cancer-focused company, has announced that Jiangsu Yahong Meditech, the parent company of its partner Asieris Pharmaceuticals, has received marketing authorization for Hexvix (hexaminolevulinate) in China. 5 November 2024
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US biopharma Vertex Pharmaceuticals was trading nearly 2% higher during pre-market trading on Tuesday. This followed Vertex’s presentation of its third-quarter financial results and latest outlook for 2024 as a whole. 5 November 2024
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French biotech Transgene today revealed it has entered into a license agreement with Germany-based contract development and manufacturing firm ProBioGen, fort he latter’s AGE1.CR.pIX suspension cell line. 5 November 2024
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Japan’s Nxera Pharma – formerly known as Sosei – and Antiverse, a UK techbio company designing antibodies for challenging targets, have today announced a multi-target partnership and licensing agreement to design antibodies for G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). 5 November 2024
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US neuroscience-focused biopharma Neurocrine Biosciences presented new data from more than 300 patients diagnosed with tardive dyskinesia and treated with Ingrezza (valbenazine) capsules at the 2024 Psych Congress in Boston. 5 November 2024
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Privately-held German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim and researchers from the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, are collaborating on a project to tackle the urgent and unmet needs of people living with mental health conditions. 4 November 2024
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Memo Therapeutics, a privately-held Swiss biotech company translating unique responses into superior medicines to treat viral infections and cancer, has appointed a new chief development officer (CDO). 4 November 2024
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for donidalorsen, an investigational RNA-targeted medicine for prophylaxis to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older, under development by Ionis Pharmaceuticals. 4 November 2024
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Disc Medicine today announced a successful End of Phase 2 with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supporting the regulatory path forward, including potential for accelerated approval, for bitopertin in erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP). 4 November 2024
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Ascendis Pharma has granted fellow Denmark-based Novo Nordisk an exclusive worldwide license to the TransCon technology platform to develop, manufacture and commercialize Novo Nordisk proprietary products in metabolic diseases (including obesity and type 2 diabetes) and a product-by-product exclusive license in cardiovascular diseases. 4 November 2024
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US biopharma Kymera Therapeutics, which is developing a new class of small molecule medicines using targeted protein degradation (TPD), has announced an important update on its pipeline. 4 November 2024
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German biotech BioNTech saw its shares rise more than 3% to $114.98 pre-market today, as it reported financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2024, that beat expectations. 4 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
CinFina Pharma, a CinRx portfolio developing a portfolio of treatment options for obesity, has presented positive top-line interim results from its Phase I single ascending dose (SAD) study of CIN-110 and final data from its multiple ascending dose (MAD) study of CIN-109. 4 November 2024
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Viking Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VKTX) reported promising early results for its experimental obesity pill, VK2735, with increased weight loss at higher doses. 4 November 2024
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Biotechnology
Ring Therapeutics, a biotech based in Massachusetts, USA, has announced strategic partnerships with Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) and the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
European regulators will decide by December 6 whether Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk, can finalize its $16.5 billion acquisition of contract drug manufacturer Catalent. 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
AstraZeneca has presented early results on three experimental weight-loss drugs at the ObesityWeek conference in San Antonio, showing encouraging signs for its obesity pipeline. 5 November 2024
Biotechnology
California, USA-based biotech Nektar Therapeutics’ shares closed up more than 8% at $1.33 yesterday after it announced the sale of its only manufacturing facility. 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical M&A came back with a bang during October, after a quiet September. 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
Spanish drugmaker PharmaMar Group today said it has received a payment of $10 million from Janssen Products, a Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) company, after reaching a commercial milestone for Yondelis (trabectedin). 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
Photocure, a Norway-based bladder cancer-focused company, has announced that Jiangsu Yahong Meditech, the parent company of its partner Asieris Pharmaceuticals, has received marketing authorization for Hexvix (hexaminolevulinate) in China. 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
US biopharma Vertex Pharmaceuticals was trading nearly 2% higher during pre-market trading on Tuesday. This followed Vertex’s presentation of its third-quarter financial results and latest outlook for 2024 as a whole. 5 November 2024
Biotechnology
French biotech Transgene today revealed it has entered into a license agreement with Germany-based contract development and manufacturing firm ProBioGen, fort he latter’s AGE1.CR.pIX suspension cell line. 5 November 2024
Biotechnology
Japan’s Nxera Pharma – formerly known as Sosei – and Antiverse, a UK techbio company designing antibodies for challenging targets, have today announced a multi-target partnership and licensing agreement to design antibodies for G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
US neuroscience-focused biopharma Neurocrine Biosciences presented new data from more than 300 patients diagnosed with tardive dyskinesia and treated with Ingrezza (valbenazine) capsules at the 2024 Psych Congress in Boston. 5 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
Privately-held German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim and researchers from the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, are collaborating on a project to tackle the urgent and unmet needs of people living with mental health conditions. 4 November 2024
Biotechnology
Memo Therapeutics, a privately-held Swiss biotech company translating unique responses into superior medicines to treat viral infections and cancer, has appointed a new chief development officer (CDO). 4 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for donidalorsen, an investigational RNA-targeted medicine for prophylaxis to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older, under development by Ionis Pharmaceuticals. 4 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
Disc Medicine today announced a successful End of Phase 2 with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supporting the regulatory path forward, including potential for accelerated approval, for bitopertin in erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP). 4 November 2024
Biotechnology
Ascendis Pharma has granted fellow Denmark-based Novo Nordisk an exclusive worldwide license to the TransCon technology platform to develop, manufacture and commercialize Novo Nordisk proprietary products in metabolic diseases (including obesity and type 2 diabetes) and a product-by-product exclusive license in cardiovascular diseases. 4 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
US biopharma Kymera Therapeutics, which is developing a new class of small molecule medicines using targeted protein degradation (TPD), has announced an important update on its pipeline. 4 November 2024
Biotechnology
German biotech BioNTech saw its shares rise more than 3% to $114.98 pre-market today, as it reported financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2024, that beat expectations. 4 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
CinFina Pharma, a CinRx portfolio developing a portfolio of treatment options for obesity, has presented positive top-line interim results from its Phase I single ascending dose (SAD) study of CIN-110 and final data from its multiple ascending dose (MAD) study of CIN-109. 4 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
Viking Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VKTX) reported promising early results for its experimental obesity pill, VK2735, with increased weight loss at higher doses. 4 November 2024
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