Kezar halts trial over 4 deaths

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Sep 30, 2024

Roche celebrates Pharma Day by buying Regor's CDK inhibitors, regenerative med-focused AntlerA  


BMS pays $110M to form T-cell therapy pact, helping Prime buy time to advance prioritized pipeline


Kezar halts dosing and enrollment in key lupus study following 4 patient deaths


Rivus reveals data to back up muscle-sparing claims of phase 2 obesity drug 


Radiopharma biotech Aktis sees Big Pharma backers return for $175M series B 


Cereno's HDAC inhibitor reduces risks from pulmonary arterial hypertension in phase 2 trial


With post hoc analysis, BridgeBio touts case for acoramidis as FDA decision date draws near


Fierce Biotech Layoff Tracker 2024: Inventprise trims 7% of staff; About 100 bluebird employees laid off


Tampa's Moffitt Cancer Center forms cancer trial partnership with Japan's largest CRO 

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Roche celebrates Pharma Day by buying Regor's CDK inhibitors, regenerative med-focused AntlerA

Genentech is paying $850 million upfront for Regor Pharmaceuticals’ portfolio of CDK inhibitors, taking ownership of a breast cancer candidate that has shown signs of single-agent efficacy in patients failed by existing options. Roche, Genentech’s parent company, also disclosed the acquisition of AntlerA.
 

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BMS pays $110M to form T-cell therapy pact, helping Prime buy time to advance prioritized pipeline

Bristol Myers Squibb is paying Prime Medicine $110 million upfront to develop reagents for ex vivo T-cell therapies. Prime, which could receive a whopping $3.5 billion in milestones, disclosed the deal alongside details of a pipeline prioritization intended to extend its cash runway into the first half of 2026.

Kezar halts dosing and enrollment in key lupus study after 4 patient deaths

The voluntary hold comes after Kezar restructured last year to in a bid to support its lupus and hepatitis candidate zetomipzomib.

Rivus reveals data to back up muscle-sparing claims of phase 2 obesity drug

Rivus Pharmaceuticals has unveiled the data behind its phase 2 obesity win in heart failure patients, showing that the candidate can indeed help patients reduce weight while they retain muscle.

Radiopharma biotech Aktis sees Big Pharma backers return for $175M series B

Having banked $60 million from Eli Lilly in the spring, Aktis Oncology has now closed an upsized $175 million series B that saw the U.S. Big Pharma rejoin a range of big-name investors in the radiopharma biotech.

Cereno's HDAC inhibitor reduces risks from pulmonary arterial hypertension in phase 2 trial

Cereno Scientific’s hypertension drug was shown to improve the risk score of 43% of patients in a phase 2 study.

With post hoc analysis, BridgeBio touts case for acoramidis as FDA decision date draws near

BridgeBio Pharma has been on the road to redemption ever since its treatment for a rare and fatal heart condition, acoramidis, flopped in an early readout of phase 3 data. Three years since tripping over that hurdle, the Bay Area company is now revealing that at the end of that trial, acoramidis had reduced combined all-cause mortality and recurrent cardiovascular-related hospitalizations compared to placebo in patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

Fierce Biotech Layoff Tracker 2024: Inventprise trims 7% of staff; About 100 bluebird employees laid off

We really didn't want to have to create another Layoff Tracker this year. But here we are, launching the third annual iteration tracking biopharma layoffs. 

Tampa's Moffitt Cancer Center forms cancer trial partnership with Japan's largest CRO

Tampa’s Moffitt Cancer Center is forging an international partnership with Japan’s largest CRO, CMIC, to improve the ability of both organizations to run global cancer trials.

J&J, Legend solidify Carvykti's lead in earlier multiple myeloma with strong survival showing

After putting on a strong performance in preventing disease progression, Johnson & Johnson and Legend Biotech’s Carvykti has once again demonstrated a major benefit—this time in prolonging patients’ lives.

ASTRO: Randomized prostate cancer study finds no major differences between IMRT and proton beam radiation

A prostate cancer trial compared two types of radiation treatments head-to-head, and found both helped control tumors with no differences in quality of life.
 
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