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Today's Rundown Zogenix pays $250M upfront for startup Modis and its FDA 'breakthrough' med Medicines Company's PCSK9 drug hits phase 3 efficacy goals Star biotech analyst Mark Schoenebaum, loved for his humor as much as his work, dies Aerie adds Vargas, once of Abbott, to medical affairs team U.K. patient groups demand action on trial data nondisclosure as politicians ramp up pressure ADC Therapeutics taps Freenome to chart biomarkers for its lead lymphoma drug Amgen, maker of Enbrel, to pick up Celgene's Otezla for $13.4B. Will FTC hit back? Featured Story | | | Monday, August 26, 2019 As fairy-tale biotech stories go, this is up there: You’re a small, ambitious startup getting a healthy $30 million series A. Fast-forward less than a year, and you’re being bought for a quarter of billion dollars upfront. |
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Top Stories Monday, August 26, 2019 A phase 3 trial of The Medicines Company’s cholesterol-lowering drug inclisiran has met its primary endpoint. The company is yet to share the efficacy data that will show whether inclisiran can compete with other PCSK9 drugs. Monday, August 26, 2019 Mark Schoenebaum, the longtime biopharma analyst admired as much for his personality as for his work, died over the weekend, wrote Umer Raffat, an Evercore ISI colleague that Schoenebaum mentored, on Sunday evening. The cause of death wasn’t specified, but he had taken medical leave from Evercore in 2016 and left the firm in 2017. Monday, August 26, 2019 Aerie Pharmaceuticals has named Luis Vargas as medical director for medical affairs. The appointment puts Vargas in charge of medical affairs organizational planning and operational matters at the eye disease company. Monday, August 26, 2019 Patient groups in the U.K. are getting fed up with what they see as a pushback from the very organization set up to try to combat the issue of clinical trial transparency. Monday, August 26, 2019 ADC Therapeutics and Freenome—two companies coming off successful venture rounds and expansions, recently bringing in over $260 million between them—have launched a new collaboration to develop biomarkers and tests for ADC’s lead cancer therapy. Monday, August 26, 2019 Looks like Amgen might not be buying Alexion after all. Instead, it’s beefing up in psoriasis, where it already sells blockbuster TNF inhibitor Enbrel, by snatching up Celgene’s Otezla for $13.4 billion. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | | | |
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