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BIO: Moderna to test mpox vaccine in humans this summer


Women left out of VC club fight for their identity, pulling each other up one by one


BIO: Caribou tries to 'go where the puck is going' by taking on cell therapy rivals on home ice


ASCO: Astellas exec jokes that 3 pending drug approvals are turning his hair gray


FibroGen faces more trouble in clinic as DMD drug fails phase 3 trial


Bayer bags access to gene editing delivery tech from biotech behind Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine


Bitterroot emerges from undergrowth with $145M series A to grow fresh approaches to heart disease


Alvogen snags NRx's bipolar depression drug in $330M deal ahead of late-phase data drop

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BIO: Moderna to test mpox vaccine in humans this summer

Back in January, Moderna set a planned mpox vaccine on the back burner as the immediate outbreak waned, but now the shot has slid into the priority lane, with entry to the clinic likely a “month or so” away, according to a top vaccine developer and strategist at the company.
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Women left out of VC club fight for their identity, pulling each other up one by one

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BIO: Caribou tries to 'go where the puck is going' by taking on cell therapy rivals on home ice

Caribou Biosciences doesn't want to follow the leader as its cell therapy rival backs off to focus on relapsed patients with lymphoma. Instead, CEO Rachel Haurwitz, Ph.D., says the CRISPR-focused company is looking a few plays ahead. 

ASCO: Astellas exec jokes that 3 pending drug approvals are turning his hair gray

Astellas is busy. Very busy. With three oncology approvals expected in the next year—two of which are label expansion approvals and one entirely new treatment—it's enough to add a few extra gray hairs. 

FibroGen faces more trouble in clinic as DMD drug fails phase 3 trial

FibroGen has now extended its clinical woes into a second month. After a phase 3 fail last month for Evrenzo dashed any remaining hopes of getting the oral anemia drug to market in the U.S., the biotech’s Duchenne muscular dystrophy candidate has now flunked a late-stage study.

Bayer bags access to gene editing delivery tech from biotech behind Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine

Bayer is teaming up with the biotech behind the delivery of Comirnaty and Onpattro. The agreement allows the German drugmaker to use Acuitas Therapeutics’ lipid nanoparticle delivery technology to get its in vivo gene editing candidates to the liver.

Bitterroot emerges from undergrowth with $145M series A to grow fresh approaches to heart disease

The largest-ever series A for a preclinical cardiovascular biotech will fund a fresh approach in the space—one that takes a hint from oncology and autoimmune disease

Alvogen snags NRx's bipolar depression drug in $330M deal ahead of late-phase data drop

Alvogen has secured a low-risk shot at the treatment-resistant suicidal bipolar depression market. The deal gives the drugmaker the license to NRx Pharmaceuticals’ NRX-101—and it will only make the initial $10 million cash payment upon seeing positive data from a phase 2b/3 clinical trial of the candidate.

After Merck's flashpoint IRA lawsuit, Biogen CEO and others register their own complaints

Merck has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn drug-pricing measures in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Now, emboldened by the New Jersey drugmaker, other biopharma CEOs are making their concerns known. At the BIO International Convention, Biogen CEO Chris Viehbacher registered severe criticism of the IRA and said his company was considering filing its own lawsuit.

Abiomed faces Class I recall of potentially leaky Impella heart pumps

Abiomed has begun a recall of several hundred of its Impella heart pumps after receiving nearly 200 complaints, and the FDA this week gave it a Class I rating, indicating a heightened risk of injury or death.

Appeals court weighs lifting freeze on ACA preventive care ruling

A federal appeals court held a brief hearing Tuesday afternoon to hear from attorneys on both sides as it decides whether to lift a nationwide freeze on a lower court's ruling that struck down preventive care protections in the Affordable Care Act.
 
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