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Immunology

Set Alert for Immunology

Sweden's InDex To Stay Afloat Thanks To Mystery Merger Partner

The writing was on the wall for InDex after cobitolimod flopped for ulcerative colitis but that should soon been scrubbed off now a reverse-merger candidate has been identified to save the Stockholm-based biotech from liquidation.

M & A Business Strategies

Sanofi To Pursue Smart M&A Pacts And Stick With Early-Stage Oncology R&D

CEO Paul Hudson says that the French major will continue to progress early-stage cancer projects despite jettisoning some oncology programs in favor of reallocating much of its research budget to immunology.

Sales & Earnings Business Strategies

Incyte Hopes To Augment Immune/Inflammation Pipeline With Escient Deal

Incyte will pay $750m to acquire privately held Escient and its first-in-class oral antagonists of Mas-related G protein-coupled receptors X2 and X4.

M & A Business Strategies

Sanofi Clinches Key Phase III Immunology Win With Rilzabrutinib

Sanofi’s BTK inhibitor – one of two from its 2021 Principia buy – passed a Phase III test in immune thrombocytopenia as the company focuses on Dupixent-like blockbusters going forward.

Clinical Trials Companies

BMS Has A Strong Pipeline, But Access Challenges Remain

Bristol Myers Squibb’s head of major markets, Monica Shaw, wants to improve patients’ access to lifesaving therapies. And the group has several new products ready to roll.

Business Strategies Clinical Trials

Sanofi Skates To Where The Puck Is With Immunology

The French drugmaker has not abandoned oncology but has made it very clear that immunology and inflammation is the priority for its R&D euros.

Inflammation Strategy

Cullinan Changes Tracks, Moving Lymphoma Bispecific Into Autoimmune

The company will discontinue its trial of the CD19-directed bispecific CLN-978 in NHL and develop it in inflammatory diseases, where it could have an edge over CAR-Ts.

Inflammation ImmunoOncology

Boehringer Ingelheim Overtakes Bayer As Germany’s Biggest Pharma Company

The privately owned company is searching for a successor to Jardiance, while the outcome of US Inflation Reduction Act talks on price cuts to the blockbuster will be revealed in September.

Sales & Earnings Commercial

Vertex’s $5bn Alpine Buyout Builds Autoimmune Disease Presence

The company hopes for a “Humira-like” blockbuster with povetacicept, the object of the sector’s biggest M&A deal so far this year.

M & A Commercial

Oruka Aiming At AbbVie, UCB In Psoriatic Indications

The third Paragon spinout, going public in a reverse-merger with ARCA, announced a concurrent $275m financing to help it develop optimized biologics as potential standards of care in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Business Strategies Financing

Mustang Bio Enters Race For CAR-T In Autoimmune Disease

The biotech company’s CEO talked to Scrip about plans to bring the CD20-targeting CAR-T MB-106 into an investigator-sponsored Phase I trial later this year.

ImmunoOncology Business Strategies

C4XD Delisting Highlights Funding Frustration For UK Biotechs

The Manchester-based group has had enough of being undervalued in the public markets and is going private again.

Financing Business Strategies
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