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AbbVie to pay Genmab $750M upfront to form bispecific R&D pact

AbbVie is set to pay Genmab $750 million upfront for a stake in a pipeline of anti-cancer bispecifics led by epcoritamab. The deal, which features up to $3.2 billion in milestones, positions AbbVie to race Regeneron to market with a bispecific antibody that could compete with CAR-T therapies.

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BIO: Boehringer BD head Sapountzis on striking deals during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a curve ball at the global economy, and the biopharma industry is no exception. Companies are scrambling to develop tests, treatments and vaccines for the disease, while making sure not to neglect their pipelines. We caught up with Ioannis Sapountzis, Boehringer Ingelheim’s global head of business development and licensing, to see how the German pharma is handling this.

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Lilly pens antisense neuro pact with Evox Therapeutics

Eli Lilly is pretty busy with a series of partners working at breakneck speed on its antibody hopefuls for COVID-19, but that hasn’t stopped it from penning a new pipeline pact in central nervous system diseases.

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Pfizer's JAK abrocitinib comes through in teen eczema test

Hoping to carve out a niche in a tough market full of competitors while also keeping down safety issues, Pfizer has posted yet more positive data in atopic dermatitis.

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BIO: BridgeBio CEO Kumar on its 'hub-and-spoke' model and where else it could work

Five years ago, Neil Kumar, Ph.D., quit his job at Third Rock Ventures to start a new kind of biotech company. The idea was "Moneyball" for biotech—to pick up potential rare disease treatments languishing in academia and to develop enough of them in parallel that the rare focus wouldn’t scare off investors.

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Illumina debuts next-generation sequencing test for COVID-19

Illumina received an emergency authorization from the FDA for its COVID-19 test designed to sequence the full genome of the novel coronavirus.

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Decoding COVID-19's Achilles' heel to inspire new treatments

A new study from the University of Zaragoza in Spain has found what could be SARS-CoV-2’s Achilles’ heel—a protein that’s critical for the reproduction of the virus. The researchers argue it could make an excellent target for potential inhibitors of the virus.

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BIO: Is COVID-19 changing how biopharmas think of M&A? Not really, say J&J and Takeda execs

Biopharma M&A has seen a sharp decline so far this year, both in terms of monetary value and total transaction count, amid a COVID-19 business slowdown. But executives from Johnson & Johnson, Takeda and Horizon Therapeutics said their companies' M&A strategies remain unchanged.

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