Today's Rundown Genentech snaps up NASH-focused Jecure Therapeutics Chinese researcher claims to have made the first CRISPR-edited babies Drug-screening Kronos Bio nets new chief business officer from Regeneron to develop pharma partnerships [Sponsored] Minimal Residual Disease: Application in Blood Cancers Hookipa tasks DarwinHealth with finding shared tumor antigens Prometic secures $50M stock sale option to ease cash crunch Vedanta pockets $12M from Johnson & Johnson on start of microbiome drug trial Roche launches new TRK assay, as Bayer, Loxo get FDA nod for pancancer drug Featured Story | | | Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Companies have been piling into the nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) space lately, and Genentech is no exception. The biotech acquired Jecure Therapeutics and its stable of NLRP3 inhibitors for an undisclosed amount. |
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Top Stories Wednesday, November 28, 2018 A Chinese researcher has claimed to be the first to use CRISPR gene-editing tools on live, implanted human embryos, resulting in the birth of twin girls and swift international backlash over the ethics of the procedure. Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Kronos Bio, a member of this year’s Fierce 15, has snagged Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ executive director of business development, Philip Gutry, to serve as its new chief business officer—tasking him with managing the company’s clinical alliances and expanding its pipeline. Monday, November 26, 2018 A diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can mean a long road with many twists and turns as patients try to achieve long-term remission from this chronic, complex and progressive form of blood cancer. Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Hookipa Pharma has teamed up with DarwinHealth to identify shared self-antigens for multiple tumor subtypes. The collaboration is expected to yield antigens with validated immunogenicity that Hookipa can use as the basis for immunotherapies. Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Prometic Life Sciences has entered into an agreement to sell up to $50 million in stock over the next 16 months. The agreement gives Prometic a way to trickle cash into its bank account while working to escape its current financial pressures. Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Vedanta Biosciences’ three-year-old collaboration with Johnson & Johnson on microbiome therapies has moved to the clinical stage, triggering a $12 million milestone payment. Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Roche launched a new automated in vitro diagnostic to detect tropomyosin receptor kinase proteins in cancer, which the company hopes will have potential use in a range of solid tumor types and site-agnostic targeted therapies—such as Bayer and Loxo Oncology’s newly approved pancancer drug, Vitrakvi. | This week's sponsor is Johnson & Johnson Innovation. | | | |
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