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July 17, 2019___

Today's Rundown

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Inovio axes staffers, cancer program to 'sharpen focus,' save cash

A few months after AstraZeneca’s MedImmune unit walked away from some of its R&D work with the biotech, Inovio Pharmaceuticals is cutting 28% of its workforce and swinging the ax on a bladder cancer test.

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Immusoft names former Amgen biologics chief as chief scientific officer

Immusoft has named Robert Hayes as chief scientific officer. Hayes, the former head of biologics at Amgen, joins the cell therapy startup as it works to move a treatment for mucopolysaccharidosis type I into clinical testing. 

FDA goes against AdComm votes 22% of the time, study finds

The FDA went against the recommendations of advisory committees 22% of the time between 2008 and 2015, according to a study. 

Astellas picks up Frequency's regenerative hearing loss med outside U.S. for $80M

Frequency Therapeutics is licensing its lead hearing loss program to Astellas, which will develop and market the drug outside the U.S., for $80 million upfront. It stands to receive another $545 million in milestones and royalties down the line.

Orum Therapeutics bags $30M to build out its platform to drug the 'undruggable'

Orum Therapeutics raised $30 million to expand the applications for its cell-penetrating antibody technology aimed at drugging "undruggable" targets.

Reversing the risk of sudden cardiac death with gene therapy

Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have created a gene therapy technique that they say might work not just in an inherited form of heart arrhythmia, but also in more common cardiac diseases marked by an irregular heartbeat.

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