Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Roivant Sciences has picked up the rights to Ligand Pharmaceuticals’ glucagon receptor antagonist LGD-6972. The midphase Type 2 diabetes candidate slots into the pipeline of Roivant’s newly minted cardiometabolic disease startup Metavant. |
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Top Stories Wednesday, March 7, 2018 The partnership for Aptose's third drug candidate comes as the biotech looks set to have its two lead drugs in clinical testing in the coming months. Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Japanese pharma Eisai and biopharma Purdue have posted positive late-stage results from their partnered sleep drug lemborexant. Wednesday, March 7, 2018 A 12-week course of Esperion's bempedoic acid lowered patients' LDL cholesterol by 23%, compared to a 5% increase observed in patients who received placebo. Wednesday, March 7, 2018 A syndicate of South Korean and Chinese investors has powered Oxford Vacmedix (OVM) to a series A round. OVM will use the $12.5 million (£9 million) investment to take vaccines against cervical cancer and other solid tumors into the clinic. Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Giuseppe Ciaramella, the leader of Moderna Therapeutics’ infectious diseases business, has jumped to a stealth-mode biotech startup, leaving a long list of clinical programs behind, according to STAT. Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Big Pharma Novartis is teaming up with virtual clinical trial company Science 37 to boost the Swiss major’s ability to run “site-less” studies. Tuesday, March 6, 2018 We started the Rotten Tomatoes special feature last year to spotlight companies that haven't followed through on the tough ethical and scientific demands of the biotech industry. This year, we’re at it again with a bit of a twist: We included companies bruised in 2016 but revived in 2017. | This week's sponsor is cobra:bio. | |  | 1ml Long Syringe Line Now Available
In response to customer demand, Cobra has invested in an expansion of capabilities for batches up to 20k units. Today ~80% of the market for high value, low volume biologicals utilises the 1ml long format. More... |
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