BioAge Labs today announced a multi-year research collaboration with Swiss pharma giant Novartis, with the news pushing the US biotech’s shares up 6.1% to $4.35 by early afternoon. 18 December 2024
Marking its second deal this month alone, Novo Nordisk has entered into a multi-year collaboration with Massachusetts, USA-based Photys Therapeutics to develop novel proximity-based therapeutics for a cardiometabolic disease target. 18 December 2024
Cara Therapeutics and Tvardi Therapeutics have announced a definitive agreement to merge, creating a new entity under the Tvardi name. 18 December 2024
SiteOne Therapeutics has announced the completion of a $100 million series C financing, led by Novo Holdings, with participation from OrbiMed, Wellington Management, Mission BioCapital, and others. 18 December 2024
Flagship Pioneering-founded genome engineering biotech Tessera Therapeutics today announced an investment of up to $50 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop curative, globally accessible in vivo genetic therapies for sickle cell disease. 18 December 2024
San Francisco-based Indapta Therapeutics, a privately held start-up developing next-generation cell therapies, has raised $22.5 million in a new financing round. The firm raised over $50 million in series A funding in 2022. 18 December 2024
French CNS specialist Theranexus saw its shares leap more than 34% to 0.65 euros as it revealed a license and supply agreement with Exeltis to commercialize TX01, its novel formulation of a compound already approved in the indication for the treatment of rare neurological diseases. 18 December 2024
US antivirals giant Gilead Sciences today revealed it has entered into a strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel, small molecule therapies across multiple targets with Californian biotech Terray Therapeutics. 17 December 2024
Swedish biotech company Inify Laboratories has raised approximately 135 million kroner ($12.3 million) through a private placement, supporting a planned expansion into the UK. 16 December 2024
Dewpoint Therapeutics and ConcertAI have announced the first phase of their translational oncology partnership, aligned around the former company's latest drug candidate, DPTX3186. 16 December 2024
Bicycle Therapeutics, a UK-headquartered pharma company developing a new class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide technology, closed a third lower on Friday. 16 December 2024
In a filing with the US financial regulator, German mRNA specialist BioNTech has noted the lifting of a partial clinical hold on its PRESERVE-003 trial. 16 December 2024
VectorY Therapeutics, a Netherlands-based biotech focused on neurodegenerative diseases, has appointed Jim Scibetta as chief executive officer. 16 December 2024
Sino-American biotech BeiGene has announced it has entered into a global licensing agreement with China’s CSPC Zhongqi Pharmaceutical Technology for SYH2039, a novel methionine adenosyltransferase 2A (MAT2A)-inhibitor being explored for solid tumors. 13 December 2024
US biotech Corcept Therapeutics has reported positive results from the Phase IV CATALYST study of Korlym (mifepristone) in people with hypercortisolism and difficult-to-control type 2 diabetes. 13 December 2024
Nine months out from landing an additional $35 million in seed funding, Relation has more news – a big pharma collaboration. The group has announced a $45 million upfront deal, including a $15 million equity investment with UK pharma group GSK. 13 December 2024
UK-based Tenpoint Therapeutics and Seattle’s Visus Therapeutics have announced the completion of their merger to create an entirely new chapter in ophthalmic therapeutic medicines aimed at rejuvenating the aging eye. 12 December 2024
AI-driven biotech BenevolentAI has announced sweeping changes aimed at refocusing its operations and extending its financial runway into 2027. 12 December 2024
USA-based Elevation Oncology, an innovative oncology company focused on the discovery and development of selective cancer therapies, has entered into a licensing agreement with Synaffix, part of Swiss out-sourcing major Lonza. 12 December 2024
Aardvark Therapeutics might not have scored the biggest venture haul in May, but its $85 million Series C round will further strengthen rumors that the California-based company is gearing up for an IPO this summer, which could come as soon as late July. 13 June 2024
US gene therapy company Regenxbio has announced that co-founder Kenneth Mills is to step down as president and chief executive following 15 years of leadership at the company. 12 June 2024
Bright Peak Therapeutics yesterday announced that it raised $90 million in a Series C financing, as the privately-held biotech looks to make a name for itself in the immunoconjugate space. 12 June 2024
The Center for Drug Evaluations of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in China has accepted the biologics license application (BLA) for zanidatamab for second-line treatment of HER2-positive biliary tract cancer (BTC). 11 June 2024
Shares of Skye Bioscience fell as much as 25% in pre-market activity on Monday, after it revealed that its Phase IIa clinical trial of SBI-100 ophthalmic emulsion (OE) did not meet its primary endpoint for lowering intraocular pressure (IOP). 11 June 2024
Privately-held Spanish CNS specialist Minoryx Therapeutics today announced encouraging results from a compassionate use study of leriglitazone for treatment of progressive cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (cALD) in adult male patients, which are published in the peer-reviewed journal Brain. 11 June 2024
UK pharma major GSK and US biotech SpringWorks Therapeutics are to end their collaboration combining Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin) and Ogsiveo (nirogacestat). 11 June 2024
Biotechnology star-tup Alumis is set to go public, filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO). 11 June 2024
Swiss ophthalmology specialist Oculis Holding has announced positive top-line results from its Phase IIb RELIEF trial with licaminlimab (OCS-02). 10 June 2024
Japanese drugmaker Shionogi has entered into an option agreement with French firm Cilcare to acquire the exclusive license for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of CIL001 and/or CIL003, a hearing loss treatment drug candidates worldwide. 8 June 2024