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Today's Rundown Playing the game of biotech chutes and ladders: The lure of raw science GSK licenses Ionis' midphase hepatitis B program for $25M InDex's topical ulcerative colitis drug hits goal in phase 2b Adaptimmune pens backloaded deal to access T-cell tech Presage inks its 3rd deal around phase 0 studies—with more to come FibroGen founder Neff dies suddenly as drug he championed racks up milestones Featured Story | | | Tuesday, August 27, 2019 When I first started being a biopharma reporter back in the recession period of 2009 when Pfizer and Merck were in the midst of megamergers, I remember asking my then-editor a question that really irked him. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, August 27, 2019 GlaxoSmithKline has licensed Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ antisense hepatitis B medicines for $25 million. The deal comes shortly after GSK achieved clinical proof of concept for the Ionis-partnered hepatitis B program. Tuesday, August 27, 2019 A phase 2b trial of InDex Pharmaceuticals’ ulcerative colitis drug has met its primary endpoint. The trial linked use of the highest dose of the topical TLR9 agonist to a 15% improvement in the clinical remission rate over placebo. Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Adaptimmune has struck a deal to access Noile-Immune Biotech’s technology for improving cancer cell therapies. The collaboration is expected to move a Spear T-cell cancer candidate based on the technology into human testing in 2021. Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Bristol-Myers Squibb will use Presage’s microdosing technology to assess early-stage cancer targets in phase 0—a stage in drug development designed to bridge preclinical and clinical work. Monday, August 26, 2019 Thomas Neff founded FibroGen in 1993 and has led the company for decades. Now, the company is searching for its next leader with his unexpected death over the weekend. Neff's passing comes as FibroGen nears key filings. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | | | |
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