Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Swiss-based Roche’s is buying Spark Therapeutics for of $114.50 per share in cash, total $4.3 billion through its fully owned subsidiary 022019 Merger Subsidiary.
Inceptua, a pharmaceutical company and service partner in comparator sourcing for clinical trials, through early access programs to licensing and commercialization of products, said Wednesday that Stefan Fraenkel, Executive Vice President, and Member of the Executive Leadership Team, is promoted to CEO effective 1 January, 2020.
Synimmune GmbH, a biotechnology company focusing on the development of innovative and effective anti-tumor antibodies for orphan hematopoietic malignancies, presented results of its first-in-human clinical study of FLYSYN, a novel Fc-optimized antibody, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Merck said Monday that it iwll, through a subsidiary, initiate a tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of ArQule for nearly $2.7 billion, or for $20 per share in cash.
Equillium got U.S. FDA’s Fast Track designation for itolizumab for the treatment of lupus nephritis, after startign the phase 1 study of itolizumab in patients with lupus and lupus nephritis in September 2019.
Inceptua Medicines Access, a business unit of the Inceptua Group, has announced the collaboration with Onconova Therapeutics to make available intravenous rigosertib via a Pre-approval Access Program in selected countries around the world.
Actinium Pharmaceuticals is advancing the development of low dose Iodine-131 apamistamab, a CD45 targeting antibody radiation-conjugate (ARC), as an alternative to today’s standard practice of chemotherapy-based lymphodepletion regimens like fludarabine/cyclophosphamide (Flu/Cy), which have been implicated in CAR-T toxicities including cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and neurotoxicity.
Novartis Phase III Palladium clinical trial has met the primary endpoing, as it showed that QMF149, a once-daily fixed-dose combination of indacaterol acetate and mometasone furoate (IND/MF) in development, was superior to mometasone furoate (MF) at medium and high doses in improving lung function.
Eli Lilly said Thursday it will work with new leadership and strategic direction in oncology R&D, combining the Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) oncology organization and Loxo Oncology, which was acquired by Lilly in early 2019.
Today Novartis holds an investor event in London to provide a comprehensive overview of the its progress in advancing its industry-leading R&D pipeline.