Today's Rundown Bayer powers Versant cell therapy startup to $250M round Nominations for FierceBiotech's 2019 Fierce 15 Pfizer’s DMD gene therapy safety data hand advantage to Sarepta In conversation with Raj Krishnan, CEO of Biological Dynamics Penn team finds new path to tumor death in mouse models of lymphoma and colon cancer Turmoil persists at uBiome with new management overhaul amid FBI probe: reports Featured Story | | | Monday, July 1, 2019 Versant Ventures’ Century Therapeutics has exited stealth with $250 million to take allogeneic cell therapies into the clinic. Bayer’s VC wing led the investment with the support of Versant and Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics. |
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Top Stories Monday, July 1, 2019 It’s the summer and that means one thing in the FierceBiotech office: it’s time of year when we want your nominations for this year’s fiercest private biotech companies. Every year we want to see the brightest and the best that young biotechs have to offer. Monday, July 1, 2019 An early clinical update on Pfizer’s Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy has raised safety concerns. One of the first six people to receive the treatment was hospitalized with acute renal injury, leading analysts to talk down Pfizer’s chances of competing with Sarepta. Monday, July 1, 2019 Raj Krishnan discusses building his company, isolation methods for diagnostic testing and how Biological Dynamics is creating new tools to detect and monitor cancer. Monday, July 1, 2019 In tumors driven by mutations in the gene MYC, blocking a protein called ATF4 causes so much stress to cancer cells that they die, University of Pennsylvania researchers discovered. The strategy stopped tumor growth in mouse models of lymphoma and colon cancer. Monday, July 1, 2019 The churn continues among the top executives of the home sequencing test provider uBiome, following an FBI raid on its headquarters earlier this year. According to reports, General Counsel John Rakow is leaving the San Francisco-based company after serving two months as interim CEO. | This week's sponsor is Medrio. | | | [Webinar] Accelerating Site and Patient Enrollment for Phase 1 Trials
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This Fierce webinar will feature clinical trial site leaders and R&D executives, who will pass along the latest strategies for boosting site and patient enrollment in phase 1 trials. They will discuss best practices for communicating with both investigators and patients. Register Now! |
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