Today's Rundown Akebia, Keryx to merge, creating kidney disease specialist ahead of showdown with FibroGen, GlaxoSmithKline ADC startup NBE raises $20M from Novo Holdings, doubling size of Boehringer-backed B round Neos poaches AgeneBio chief as CEO Vipin Garg abruptly resigns [Sponsored] The Growing Need for Data Management Solutions in Clinical Labs Newcomer Appello raises $10.5M for new Vanderbilt Parkinson’s drug Roche, Care Innovations partner to build mySugr into telehealth service Poliovirus treatment for glioblastoma posts 'encouraging' survival data, but work remains Featured Story | | | Thursday, June 28, 2018 Akebia Therapeutics is set to merge with Keryx Biopharmaceuticals. The combined company will own potentially complementary kidney disease drugs and a sales force to promote them, setting it up to fend off competition from rivals including FibroGen and GlaxoSmithKline. |
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Top Stories Thursday, June 28, 2018 Novo Holdings has invested CHF 20 million ($20 million) in NBE Therapeutics, doubling the size of the startup’s series B round. NBE will use the money to start testing anti-ROR1 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) NBE-002 in solid tumor patients. Thursday, June 28, 2018 Following the sudden resignation of Vipin Garg, its president and CEO, Neos Therapeutics has poached AgeneBio chief executive Jerry McLaughlin to fill the top spot, effective immediately. Monday, June 25, 2018 The increasing demand for innovation in research and the related pressures to deliver on the most promising findings from discovery are also driving the need for simultaneous innovation in the technologies that enable that innovation and, likewise, the reliance on data management solutions that respond to an increasingly complex scientific environment. Thursday, June 28, 2018 Appello Pharmaceuticals raised $10.5 million to fund development of a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease licensed from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery. Monday, June 25, 2018 Roche is integrating its mySugr diabetes management tool into Care Innovations’ telehealth service. The collaborators see the combination of their technologies facilitating remote care of people with diabetes and better management of the condition. Thursday, June 28, 2018 The team behind a much-hyped cancer-killing virus reports an "encouraging" 21% long-term survival rate in glioblastoma patients. But the number of patients who survived may be too small to know for sure if the treatment works. Enrollment Showcase | | | Sponsored by: Bioinformatics at UTHealth SBMI UTHealth SBMI now offers a M.S. track in clinical and translational bioinformatics. |
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