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THE GOOD
Business Development & Partnerships
Jaguar LAA acquires Johnson & Johnson's Afib LAA closure device assets for undisclosed price
Acquisition, cardiovascular, medical devices, equity investment - Read more
Novartis acquires Sironax's blood-brain barrier delivery platform for $125M
Acquisition, neurological, drug delivery, antibody, milestone payments - Read more
Oribiotech secures $120M, 10-year cell therapy manufacturing pact with undisclosed biopharma partner
Manufacturing agreement, cell therapy, automation, milestone payments, commercialization - Read more
Ginkgo Bioworks selected by Novo to build autonomous lab at new Waltham R&D site
Manufacturing agreement, AI/ML, drug discovery, automation, R&D - Read more
Tempest Therapeutics secures exclusive option to license Hebei Senlang Biotechnology's CD7-targeted lentiviral in vivo CAR-T platform
Licensing deal, cell therapy, oncology, autoimmune, gene therapy, milestone payments - Read more
Mighty Therapeutics, POLG Foundation, JAX collaborate to develop preclinical mouse model for POLG mitochondrial disorders and Parkinson's disease
Research collaboration, rare disease, neurological, drug discovery, small molecule - Read more
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✅ More Good News ✅
THE GOOD
Clinical Trials
Skyhawk Therapeutics' SKY-0515 shows significant Ph1/2 improvement in Huntington's disease patients at 15-month mark
Small molecule, neurological, RNA modulation, Huntington's disease, oral therapy - Read more
THE GOOD
Fundraises
Sling Therapeutics raises $123M Series C to advance oral thyroid eye disease treatment
Small molecule, thyroid eye disease, ophthalmology, clinical-stage - Read more
RegCell raises $66M, Series A and AMED grant for T-cell autoimmune reprogramming platform
Autoimmune, cell therapy, T-cell reprogramming, epigenetic platform, clinical-stage - Read more
HexemBio raises $15.5M in total funding, advancing three-generation longevity cell therapy platform
Longevity, cell therapy, synthetic biology, stem cell, preclinical - Read more
Circle Pharma raises $92.5M Series E to advance cyclin D1 inhibitor for breast cancer
Oncology, small molecule, breast cancer, macrocycle, clinical-stage, AI/ML platform - Read more
Mithrl raises $20M Series A to launch AI infrastructure platform for biopharma drug development
AI/ML platform, biopharma, drug discovery, platform technology - Read more
Aitiologic raises €6.4M ($7.4M) Seed, developing tissue-resolved liquid biopsy precision medicine solutions
Liquid biopsy, precision medicine, cell-free DNA, AI/ML platform, preeclampsia, women's health - Read more
THE GOOD
Product Launches
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories launches NIVORZ nivolumab biosimilar in India, targeting ₹3,900 crore immuno-oncology market
Biosimilar monoclonal antibody, oncology, competitive, revenue impact - Read more
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❌ The Bad News ❌
THE BAD
Clinical Trials
BioMarin discontinues Voxzogo (vosoritide) Ph2 development for Noonan syndrome amid shifting treatment landscape
Protein therapy, rare disease, CNP analog, Noonan syndrome, achondroplasia - Read more
Novartis halts (lifonebart) TREM2 stabilizer development after Ph2 failure in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Protein therapy, neurological, TREM2 stabilizer, ALS, neurodegeneration - Read more
THE BAD
Regulatory
MaaT Pharma's appeal fails as EMA panel upholds negative opinion on GvHD candidate Xervyteg
Microbiome therapy, graft-versus-host disease, regulatory, operational - Read more
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