MeiraGTx partners with cryptic AI startup Hologen to advance Parkinson's gene...
A small-cap biotech developing gene therapies is spinning out its Parkinson’s disease program into a new company in partnership with a secretive AI startup co-founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt....
View ArticlePfizer terminates an early-stage STING agonist trial
Pfizer's pipeline prioritization has now turned to a STING agonist, with an early-stage study termination of the asset, a spokesperson confirmed to Endpoints News. The company ended a Phase 1 trial of...
View ArticleMoonLake's CEO on its looming mid-year pivotal readout in skin disease
MIAMI — MoonLake Immunotherapeutics is expected to have one of the biotech industry's biggest stock-moving clinical readouts around the middle of this year for a pair of Phase 3 trials in a painful...
View ArticleLilly-partnered Fauna Bio plans $40M Series A to get into heart failure
MIAMI — Fauna Bio, a biotech that mines data on disease resistance from squirrels and other animals to create new drugs, is looking at raising a Series A to get its first program into clinical trials ...
View ArticleMerck diversity leader to retire this summer; Geron seeks commercial chops...
→ Celeste Warren said in a LinkedIn post that she is retiring from Merck on July 7. Warren joined Merck in 1997 and has been VP of the company’s Global Diversity ...
View ArticleSutro slashes workforce in half, changes CEO and closes factory
Sutro Biopharma is reducing its headcount by 50%, appointing a new CEO, shutting down its only factory, and shifting away from its lead candidate. The major reshuffle is intended to save cash, which...
View ArticleAltimmune to put its incretin into addiction trials; Tarsus aims to raise $125M
Plus, news about Heidelberg, Accropeutics, Allarity Therapeutics, Cadrenal and Inovio: Altimmune to test its incretin in addiction: Following the path set by Novo Nordisk last week, Altimmune said...
View ArticleRFK Jr. convened roundtable around ways to reduce stem cell regulation
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his staff last Wednesday hosted a regenerative medicine roundtable primarily to discuss how to lower regulatory barriers for stem cell treatments, three people...
View ArticleRecipharm hits record revenue, eyes GLP-1 deals for growth
Greg Behar’s shakeup of Recipharm is paying off in his first year as CEO. The CDMO reported record-high revenues on Friday, and the company expects it will be able to tap into the booming GLP ...
View ArticleUK’s drugmaker rebate plan draws scrutiny from industry
The UK government is planning to double the proportion of money drugmakers have to pay back on medicine sales to the National Health Service in a move that’s drawn backlash from industry. In the UK ...
View ArticleBoston Pharma mulls IPO amid MASH momentum
The once-fledgling field of MASH drug developers is now one of the few areas of consistency in the biotech industry. And another late-stage startup is gaining traction. Boston Pharmaceuticals,...
View ArticleFederal Circuit ruling keeps Amgen's Eylea biosimilar on the market
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday ruled against Regeneron in a closely-watched patent infringement case involving the New York biotech's blockbuster eye drug Eylea and Amgen's...
View ArticleDr. Oz says he would defend Medicare drug price negotiations
Mehmet Oz has committed to defending Medicare drug price negotiations in court if he is confirmed to lead CMS. The nominee sailed through a roughly three-hour confirmation hearing on Friday, despite...
View ArticleUpdates on health agency nominees; New data from Pfizer, Beam; MASH startup...
Welcome back to Endpoints Weekly. Our reporters tracked a flurry of deals and data readouts this week, plus updates on the Trump administration’s health agency picks. Let’s dive in. The Trump...
View ArticleAstraZeneca spotlights first-in-human data for B7-H4-targeting ADC in...
AstraZeneca is fine-tuning plans for a Phase 3 study for its B7-H4-targeting ADC after the drug produced encouraging response and survival results in endometrial cancer patients enrolled in an early...
View ArticleOtsuka's Taiho buys Swiss startup Araris with three ADCs nearing the clinic
A small Swiss drug developer is being scooped up for its pipeline of three antibody-drug conjugates that offer a next-generation approach to the area of oncology R&D that has ballooned in recent...
View ArticleCurevo gets $110M for a shot against Shingrix, gets Moncef Slaoui and Tal...
A Seattle biotech trying to take on one of the world’s biggest vaccines has nabbed a megaround. It also named former Operation Warp Speed chief scientific advisor Moncef Slaoui as its board chair and...
View ArticleGRO Biosciences, working on recoded organisms, cuts most staff
GRO Biosciences, a small but ambitious biotech startup attempting to create novel protein drugs from genetically modified bacteria, has cut most of its staff after “efficacy issues” delayed its...
View ArticleKennedy's anti-vaccine actions shouldn't surprise anyone
At the end of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing, Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) raised a rhetorical question at the heart of whether Kennedy was the moderate he’d...
View ArticleVertanical’s Phase 3 win for non-opioid painkiller; Apriori lays off 40% of...
Plus, news about Pillar, vTv Therapeutics, OPKO Health, Entera Bio, Zentalis, Sutro Biopharma and Idorsia: Vertanical’s non-opioid painkiller succeeds in Phase 3: The German biotech claimed a...
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