Lykos Therapeutics’ hopes of being the first to market with a hallucinogenic medicine suffered a major blow Tuesday during a meeting of the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC). 5 June 2024
Ireland-headquartered fish oil-based heart drug specialist Amarin Corporation announced that it has appointed Aaron Berg, currently Amarin’s executive vice president and president of the US business, as president and chief executive (CEO). 5 June 2024
Shares in California, USA-based autoimmune specialist Annexon soared more than 37% in pre-market trading on Tuesday to $6.32, after it announced positive top-line results from its randomized placebo-controlled pivotal Phase III trial in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). 5 June 2024
Florida, USA-based Summit Therapeutics has managed to beat the leading checkpoint blocker, Keytruda (pembrolizumab), in a head-to-head comparison. 4 June 2024
Treos Bio, a biotech using data science and proprietary biomarkers to develop precision peptide immunotherapies, has presented results from its Phase II OBERTO-301 study. 4 June 2024
BridgeBio Pharma’s (Nasdaq: BBIO) shares were up nearly 5% at $30.37 in early trading, after the company announced sustained positive results from PROPEL 2. 4 June 2024
Shares of US biotech Structure Therapeutics shot up as much as 71% yesterday and gained a further 4.6% to $55.17 in pre-market activity on the back of encouraging research results on its oral GLP-1 weight management candidate. 4 June 2024
Israel-based artificial intelligence (AI) focused biotech Biolojic Design has entered into a multi-target drug discovery collaboration with Germany’s Merck KGaA. 4 June 2024
Privately-held company GAIA has had more than a front-row seat to observe the arrival of digital therapeutics and applications of AI in pharma over the past quarter century. 4 June 2024
US clinical-stage biotech start-up QurAlis has signed an agreement with Eli Lilly granting the pharma major global rights to develop and commercialize QRL-204. 3 June 2024
US biotechs Gilead Sciences and Arcus Biosciences on Saturday announced longer-term efficacy and safety results from Arm A1 of the Phase II EDGE-Gastric study. 3 June 2024
Researchers from UK-based biotech Immunocore Holdings shared new data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting on Kimmtrak (tebentafusp-tebn), the first-ever treatment approved for metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM), showing there is treatment benefit for patients with stable disease and any confirmed tumor reduction. 3 June 2024
US cancer-focussed firm Karyopharm Therapeutics presented updated exploratory subgroup analyses from the Phase III SIENDO study in patients with advanced or recurrent TP53 wild-type endometrial cancer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). 2 June 2024
Privately-held UK clinical-stage firm Soterios Pharma has announced positive multi-dose Phase II trial evaluating STS-01 as a treatment for mild/moderate alopecia areata (AA). 31 May 2024
Trevi Therapeutics has announced significant milestones in its clinical programs for Haduvio (nalbuphine), an investigational therapy aimed at treating chronic cough in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and refractory chronic cough (RCC). 4 October 2024
Paris-based asset manager Kurma Partners has raised 140 million euros ($154 million), successfully completing the first closing of Biofund IV 4 October 2024
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and US biotech incubator Flagship Pioneering have agree to collaborate on advancing health and sustainability outcomes in Singapore and the broader Asia Pacific region. 4 October 2024
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has removed the partial clinical hold on delpacibart etedesiran (del-desiran/AOC 1001), an investigational treatment designed to address the root cause of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), under development by US biotech Avidity Biosciences . 4 October 2024
Caliway Biopharmaceuticals has successfully completed its initial public offering, raising NT$6.4 billion ($206 million), the largest IPO in Taiwan's biotech industry to date. 3 October 2024
US clinical-stage biotech Arcus Biosciences has entered into a clinical trial collaboration with AstraZeneca on renal cancer treatments. 3 October 2024
PeptiDream says that its wholly-owned PDRadiopharma subsidiary has entered into a strategic partnership with French nuclear medicines firm Curium. 3 October 2024
Shares of UK drug developer Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals rose as much as 9% and closed up 5.9% at 1.70 pence yesterday on the news of a further investment from Prevail Partners. 3 October 2024
UK-based biotech Resolution Therapeutics has announced the completion of a £63.5 million ($76.8 million) series B financing round led by Syncona. 3 October 2024
Liquidia Corporation and Pharmosa Biopharm have amended the current exclusive licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of L606. 3 October 2024
Timing can be crucial in biotech, and any company that can help optimize radiopharmaceuticals to fight cancer is likely to a hot property right now, given the recent popularity of the field among investors and drugmakers. 2 October 2024
UK-based biotech LoQus23 Therapeutics has closed a £35 million ($43 million) series A financing round, led by Forbion, with support from SV Health Investors' Dementia Discovery Fund and Novartis Venture Fund. 2 October 2024
Privately-held UK biotech Curve Therapeutics today announced the further strengthening of its leadership team with the appointments of Andre Hoekema as chairman of the board and Cora Griffin as head of business development. 2 October 2024
NK:IO, a London startup developing a cell therapy for treating solid tumors, has announced the appointment of a permant chief executive and the finalization of a seed funding round. 2 October 2024
Spanish epigenetics firm Oryzon Genomics has announced the receipt of the official meeting minutes from a recent End-of-Phase II meeting for vafidemstat in borderline personality disorder (BPD) with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2 October 2024
Halda Therapeutics, a US biotech company advancing cancer treatments, announced the appointment of Christian Schade as president and chief executive. 1 October 2024