This week's sponsor is INC Research. | | | Top Stories Monday, October 31, 2016 Sanofi and partner Regeneron have become the latest biopharmas to be hit by a complete response letter from the FDA this year for manufacturing concerns as its experimental arthritis med sarilumab now faces months of delay. Monday, October 31, 2016 Healthcare investment firm Third Rock Ventures has closed its “Fund IV,” raising $616 million in what was an oversubscribed fund, as it also bolsters its team with Novartis and Eleven Biotherapeutics alumni Abbie Celniker. Monday, October 31, 2016 Just a few months after posting early-stage data for its experimental brain cancer med GDC-0084, Roche has handed over development rights for the drug to Australian upstart biotech Novogen. Monday, October 31, 2016 Berg has expanded its alliance with the U.S. Department of Defense to cover research into breast cancer. The biotech will apply its technology platform to serum and tissue samples covering several breast cancer subtypes in an attempt to find molecular signatures that aid understanding of the disease. Monday, October 31, 2016 Medtronic is trumpeting positive results from a clinical trial of one of its drug-eluting stents, a boon for the company as it competes in a crowded market. This week's sponsor is MedNet. | | Successfully Managing Registries with eClinical Technology Free case study: See how eClinical technology supported a disease-specific Registry, ensuring the quick attainment of enrollment goals and the creation of multiple publications. Download now. | | Epizyme teams up with NCI for work on its cancer meds: tazemetostat, an EZH2 inhibitor, and pinometostat, its first-in-class DOT1L inhibitor. Release The FDA has accepted Ariad’s NDA for its oral ALK inhibitor brigatinib in certain lung cancer patients. Release Eisai and partner Biogen have kick-started a Phase III test for BACE inhibitor E2609 in early-stage Alzheimer’s. Release | |
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