MPM Capital secures $400M to finance innovative biotech startups
  Author: Mateen Dalal

The fund would reportedly contribute toward disruptive scientific developments across a spate of therapeutic areas such as immunology, oncology, and neurosciences. ...

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AC Immune starts enrolling patients for next Phase 2 trial of anti-Tau
  Author: Nikita Chaurasia

The antibody, called as MTAU9937A, RO7105705, is also being assessed by Genentech in a different Phase 2 trial Anti-Tau monoclonal antibody was det...

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U.S. FDA to clampdown potentially perilous dietary supplements
  Author: Mateen Dalal

Council for Responsible Nutrition welcomed the action against companies that have tarnished consumer confidence for all legitimate products. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

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Merck to invest $70m for R&D facility expansion in Massachusetts
  Author: Mateen Dalal

The building construction is scheduled to be completed in 2021 and is designed to offer office space, wet labs and a cafeteria. Merck, one of the leaders in the pha...

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Thermo Fisher to collaborate with Torque to develop Slipstream™
  Author: Mateen Dalal

The Torque-Thermo Fisher manufacturing facility is expected to come online by the end of 2019. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the biotechnology products development...

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UK university uses graphene to develop lung cancer detection device
  Author: Mateen Dalal

The new device possesses the potential to detect specific lung cancer markers at the earliest stage possible. In what may seem to a pathbreaking revolutionary finding i...

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U.S. FDA approves first generic drug for asthma and COPD treatment
  Author: Mateen Dalal

The generic drug will mean low cost but high-quality drug access to people suffering from chronic respiratory and lung diseases. The U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...

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Roche to abandon Alzheimer’s drug crenezumab following failed trials
  Author: Nikita Chaurasia

The news from Roche marks another failure in developing drugs for Alzheimer’s after many other drugmakers have stopped trials of prospective treatments. Roche...

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AstraZeneca inks a value-based agreement with UPMC Health Plan
  Author: Mateen Dalal

The deal links reimbursement for the blood thinner to the cardiovascular outcomes of patients.   Sources familiar with the development ...

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Purdue Pharma teams up with Alivio Therapeutics to advance ALV-107
  Author: Mateen Dalal

Purdue Pharma L.P., the Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company, has reportedly announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Alivio Therapeutics to advance one of its product candidates via clinical devel...

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Abcam acquires California-based antibodies developer Calico Biolabs
  Author: Nikita Chaurasia

U.K. biotech firm Abcam has recently confirmed the acquisition of Calico Biolabs, a specialist in rabbit monoclonal antibodies based out of California. Calico is known to provide custom, high-quality recombinant rabbit...

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Basilea & Roche to jointly study novel treatment for urothelial cancer
  Author: Nikita Chaurasia

The planned study would assess the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of the derazantinib-atezolizumab combination in patients with confirmed FGFR genomic aberrations and advanced urothelial cancer. ...

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