Featured Story | By Nick Paul Taylor Roger Perlmutter has taken up the CEO post at Eikon Therapeutics. The startup disclosed the hiring of the former president of Merck Research Laboratories alongside news that it has raised a $148 million series A round to apply live-cell super-resolution microscopy to drug discovery. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor ChemoCentryx’s stock price almost halved after the FDA raised concerns with a filing for approval of avacopan. The agency raised multiple concerns with ChemoCentryx’s phase 3 clinical trial ahead of an advisory committee meeting to discuss the complement 5a receptor inhibitor this week. read more By Annalee Armstrong Adagio Therapeutics’ COVID-19 antibody drug could provide as much as 12 months of protection against infection with the coronavirus, according to an early-stage clinical trial, supporting advancement of the therapy to phase 2/3. read more Sponsored By: Mitotech S.A. Mitotech focuses its clinical development efforts on ophthalmology, hoping to deliver its mitochondria targeted therapies to patients suffering from age-related as well as rare genetic eye diseases. read more By Amirah Al Idrus It’s been a busy year for Day One Biopharmaceuticals. Just nine months after debuting with $60 million to tackle childhood cancers, the company is topping up its coffers with a $130 million series B financing. The funds will bankroll development and launch plans for its lead program as well as its search for new drug programs to pick up. read more Sponsored By: Catalent Clinical Supply The COVID-19 pandemic has made society very aware of the need to be flexible in the approach to daily life. Use and acceptance of DTP has grown due to the pandemic, and sponsors quickly began to rethink their Direct-to-Patient (DTP) approach as patients increasingly requested that their study drugs be shipped to their homes. read more By Amirah Al Idrus Jaguar Gene Therapy emerged in February with about $40 million from Deerfield Management and a plan to get its leading assets into the clinic in the next couple of years. Now, having raised another $139 million to fuel that mission, the company is adding a chief medical officer to its team. read more By Ben Adams There’s a new autoimmune disease player in town: Esker Therapeutics has raised $70 million to work on a new, focused way that can go beyond some of the limitations of JAK1 drugs. read more By Andrea Park In a veritable whirlwind of neurological discovery—a brain storm, if you will—researchers have developed a device with the potential to massively improve our understanding of the effects of Parkinson’s disease on brain activity. read more By Angus Liu Cancer cells multiply out of control because they're able to escape a mechanism known as programed cell death. But scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and King’s College London have uncovered key functions of another pathway that the body can use to dispose those rogue cells. 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