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AskBio Announces Initiation of Phase 2 GenePHIT Trial in Congestive Heart Failure

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), a gene therapy company wholly owned and independently operated as a subsidiary of Bayer AG, today announced that it is initiating GenePHIT (Gene PHosphatase Inhibition Therapy), a Phase 2 trial of AB-1002 (also known as NAN-101)…

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Merck Expands Colorectal Cancer Portfolio Through Licensing Agreement with Inspirna

Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced a licensing agreement with Inspirna, Inc. (New York, NY) for ompenaclid (RGX-202), a first-in-class oral inhibitor of the creatine transport channel SLC6A8, and SLC6A8-targeting follow-on compounds. Ompenaclid is currently being evaluated…

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Novo Nordisk enters into research collaborations with Omega Therapeutics and Cellarity on novel treatment approaches for cardiometabolic diseases

Novo Nordisk, Omega Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMGA) (“Omega”) and Cellarity Inc. today announced that Novo Nordisk has entered into separate research collaborations with each company. The Omega collaboration will leverage its proprietary platform technology to develop an epigenomic controller designed…

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Depixus Launches Technology Access Program With First MAGNA One™ Instrument Placement

Interactomics pioneer Depixus has launched its game-changing MAGNA™ technology access program with the deployment of the first MAGNA One™ beta prototype instrument in the laboratory of Professor Jean-François Allemand, Department of Physics at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. Based…

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Esperion and Daiichi Sankyo Europe Announce $125 Million Amendment to Their Collaboration, Including Resolution of Pending Litigation

Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPR) and Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH (DSE) the Europeanheadquarter organization of the Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (TSE:4568), announced today a $125 million amendment to their collaboration, which includes anamicable resolution to their commercial…

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European Medicines Agency Validates Bristol Myers Squibb’s Application for Repotrectinib for the Treatment of Locally Advanced or Metastatic ROS1-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and NTRK-Positive Solid Tumors

 Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated its marketing authorization application for the next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) repotrectinib as a treatment for ROS1 TKI-naïve and -pretreated adult patients with ROS1-positive locally advanced or metastatic non-small…

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Beyfortus approved in China for the prevention of RSV disease in infants

AstraZeneca and Sanofi’s Beyfortus (nirsevimab), a long-acting monoclonal antibody, has been approved in China for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in neonates and infants entering or during their first RSV season.1 Beyfortus is anticipated to be available…

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Roche enters into a definitive agreement to acquire LumiraDx’s Point of Care technology combining multiple diagnostic modalities on a single platform

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today the entry into a definitive agreement to acquire select parts of the LumiraDx group (NASDAQ GS: LMDX) related to LumiraDx’s innovative Point of Care technology. Following closing of the transaction, which is…

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Hansoh Pharma’s Saint Luolai is added to the National Reimbursement Drug List, opening a new chapter in the long-term treatment for CKD renal anemia in China

On December 13, the National Healthcare Security Administration and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China jointly released the “National Medicines Catalogue for Basic Medical Insurance, Work Injury Insurance and Maternity Insurance (2023)”…

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Bristol Myers Squibb Strengthens Neuroscience Portfolio with Acquisition of Karuna Therapeutics

Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) and Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRTX) (“Karuna”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Bristol Myers Squibb has agreed to acquire Karuna for $330.00 per share in cash, for…

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Wainua granted first-ever regulatory approval in the US for the treatment of adults with polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis

AstraZeneca and Ionis’ Wainua (eplontersen) has been approved in the US for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults, commonly referred to as hATTR-PN or ATTRv-PN.1 Wainua is the only approved medicine for the treatment of ATTRv-PN that can be…

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