Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Alexion has struck a deal to buy Achillion for $930 million upfront. The takeover will give Alexion two clinical-phase medicines in development in complement alternative pathway-mediated rare diseases. |
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Top Stories Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Last year, Eli Lilly spent $1.6 billion to get its hands on Armo Biosciences and its lead asset, pegilodecakin. Today, that drug flopped. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Big Pharma giant Roche has quietly cut a series of early- to midstage experimental drugs as it continues the traditional quarterly clear-out. Monday, October 14, 2019 Flipping the script for specialty medications – improved patient access and time-to-therapy with a new tech-enabled platform from CoverMyMeds and RxCrossroads by McKesson. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 MedImmune’s vice president of research and head of oncology R&D Ronald Herbst, Ph.D., has followed a series of other AstraZeneca and its biologics arm staffers out the door. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Ipsen has struck a deal with Blueprint Medicines to add another treatment for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) to its rare disease pipeline. The backloaded, $535 million (€485 million) deal comes months after Ipsen paid $1 billion to buy Clementia Pharmaceuticals for an FOP therapy. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Healx has raised $56 million (€51 million) to launch 40 rare disease programs while taking some of its existing assets into the clinic. The ambitious target is enabled by an AI drug discovery platform that Healx thinks gives it a scalability that has more in common with tech than biotech. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Sandoz is pulling the plug on its commercialization partnership with Pear Therapeutics, ending its experiment with digital treatments for substance use disorders that first kicked off in April 2018. |  | Experts in our field; with 20+ years of experience in Viral Vector and plasmid DNA (R&D, High Quality and GMP) manufacture for pre-clinical, clinical and commercial supply. Take a virtual tour of our facilities and find out more about our most recent expansion project. |
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