Biogen buys midphase drug to challenge Roche for stroke market As data near, U.K. rethinks AstraZeneca COVID-19 antibody deal Call for your Fierce Biotech Fierce 15 nominations for 2021 Perceptive Advisors unveils $515M fund, its 2nd for early-stage biotechs Ex-Gossamer CSO Salter-Cid reunites with Bristol Myers brethren Biondi at Flagship Pioneering Alexion founder Squinto helms OrbiMed-backed startup with some Yale gene therapy tech Trials ramping back up, but slow takeup of places remain a barrier: report Pfizer, Regeneron CEOs see extended need for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments as pandemic enters next phase Featured Story | By Nick Paul Taylor Biogen is exercising its option to acquire an acute ischemic stroke candidate from TMS after getting a look at phase 2a data. The results persuaded Biogen to pay $18 million for a small molecule that may expand the time window in which thrombolytics can safely be used to clear clots. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor The U.K. government has rethought plans to buy one million doses of an anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody in development at AstraZeneca, according to anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg. News of the rethink comes shortly before AstraZeneca is due to deliver late-phase data on the candidate. read more By Ben Adams Now in our nineteenth year, Fierce Biotech is once again seeking your nominations for the best, most exciting and innovative private biotechs. Last year, we wanted to see more COVID companies on the list, but this year there is a return to normality, and we will be happy to accept nominations from across all target areas. read more By Amirah Al Idrus After 20 years of backing clinical-stage biotechs, Perceptive Advisors took a leap in 2019, teaming up with Chris Garabedian’s Xontogeny to invest in earlier-stage companies. Less than 18 months later, that crew is back for round two, with a new fund totaling $515 million. Dubbed the Perceptive Xontogeny Fund II, the capital will bankroll series A rounds of $20 million to $40 million. read more By Amirah Al Idrus After two years as Gossamer Bio’s chief scientist, Luisa Salter-Cid, Ph.D. has landed at Flagship Pioneering, where she will spearhead the development of new medicines based on technology from the firm’s portfolio companies. She joins fellow Bristol Myers Squibb veteran Paul Biondi, now an executive partner at Flagship and president of its Pioneering Medicines division. read more By Ben Adams OrbiMed’s executive partner and a founder of rare disease biopharma Alexion (now AstraZeneca), Stephen Squinto, Ph.D., is taking the reins at non-viral gene therapy biotech Gennao Bio. read more By Ben Adams As the pandemic is being beaten back in the U.S. and U.K. (but is still rampant in other areas of the globe), clinical trials are able to get back on track, but slow enrollment is still an issue. read more By Fraiser Kansteiner Pharma companies with COVID-19 vaccines and drugs have reeled in big sales in recent months, but even as vaccines promise to eventually tackle the pandemic, eye-popping revenue figures will continue for quite some time, execs project. read more Resources Sponsored By: Veeva One top 10 pharma outlines three key steps to launching a modular content strategy to generate localized content faster. 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