Nuvation started in 2018 and raised a $275m series A round in 2019. Now it is merging with the EcoR1 Capital-sponsored SPAC Panacea Acquisition Corp. and raising $500m in equity capital.

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is sure to dominate the third quarter results call, with everything from data to widescale distribution and the potential financial reward on the minds of investors and the public.

Vifor CEO Stefan Schulze tells Scrip that an expanded deal with Korsuva developer Cara Therapeutics means the US biotech will not have to invest in a commercial organization as the Swiss firm will mobilize its well-established sales force to launch the treatment for dialysis patients with CKD-associated pruritus.

The first close of a series C financing should enable InRhythm to enter Phase III as an inhalable anti-arrhythmic for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in a medically supervised setting.

Biogen lowered revenue guidance for the year by $600m due to Tecfidera generics and said it could consider broader cost cuts in 2021 depending on the outcome of aducanumab at the US FDA.

Through a licensing-out deal with ORIC for its EGFR/HER2 exon-20 inhibitor, South Korea's Voronoi hopes to gain from its new partner's commercialization experience in NSCLC. The alliance aims to build a potentially best-in-class presence in a competitive landscape.

From efficacy endpoints to patient warehousing, US FDA advisors weigh in on vaccine development and regulatory review.

Purdue pleads guilty to three felony charges over marketing of OxyContin under settlement that requires Purdue to be dissolved and transformed into an entity that provides addiction and overdose medicines. Twenty-five state AGs oppose creation of a PBC, arguing Purdue should be sold to another company.

The UK backs the world's first COVID-19 human challenge studies to accelerate research – though the first results will not be ready until mid-2021.

With Roche's oral spinal muscular atrophy therapy Evrysdi off to a strong start after its recent US launch, Novartis is switching its priorities for rival RNA-splicing drug branaplam and putting it into a Phase IIb trial for Huntington's disease.

Gilead's remdesivir is first drug fully approved by FDA to treat COVID-19. Roche and Atea team up on an investigational direct acting antiviral while Moderna reaches the 30,000-patient enrollment target for its Phase III COVE study of the company's investigational mRNA vaccine.