Today's Rundown BioNTech raises $325M series B round to advance cancer pipeline China's biotech cash injection suddenly drops as U.S. scrutiny intensifies: report IGM Biotherapeutics grabs $102M to push bispecific into the clinic Celsius Therapeutics inks first biopharma deal—an IBD study with Janssen Celgene bags option on Nimbus' anticancer HPK1 inhibitor Nominations for FierceBiotech's 2019 Fierce 15 Engineered bacteria prime solid tumors for immunotherapy Featured Story | | | Tuesday, July 9, 2019 BioNTech has raised $325 million (€289 million) in a private fundraising round. The series B positions the immuno-oncology player to advance its multidrug clinical pipeline and grow its manufacturing footprint. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, July 9, 2019 China is a big area of opportunity for biotech: a population of about 1.4 billion with a sizable and growing chunk of that demographic succumbing to chronic, middle-class diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Tuesday, July 9, 2019 IGM Biotherapeutics picked up $102 million in series C financing to work on its pipeline of cancer drugs, including a CD20- and CD3-targeting bispecific antibody slated to start clinical trials by the end of the year. Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Celsius’ new partnership with Janssen Biotech is a win-win situation—it will feed Celsius' drug discovery and help Janssen work on a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease. Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Celgene has expanded its deal with Nimbus Therapeutics to secure an option on an HPK1 inhibitor program. Nimbus will take the drug up to a clinical inflection point, at which time Celgene will choose whether to take up its option. 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 8, 2019 Arming the immune system so it can recognize and attack solid tumors has proven to be an illusive goal. Scientists at Columbia University hope to change that with an engineered form of the bacterium E. coli that's designed to colonize solid tumors. In mouse models, the treatment cleared primary tumors and reduced metastasis. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | | | |
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