Public Company Edition: Benefitting from hope that biopharma interventions will help the coronavirus pandemic, the industry is faring better than others in the stock market, including the ability to launch IPOs. Also, BridgeBio leads recent financings and PDL is on track to dissolve by year-end.

The first part of Aldeyra’s Phase III RENEW study of the aldehyde trap candidate, reproxalap, shows positive effects on one of two co-primary endpoints and indicates an induction-maintenance dosing regimen should be used in part 2 of the study, expected to start in the first half of next year.

In a review of biopharma start-up dealmaking and financing activity from January through March, based on data from Strategic Transactions, Anthos completed the largest venture capital round in the first quarter, raising $250m.

Public Company Edition: COO Dean Hum talked to Scrip about Genfit's IPO strategy – which wasn't just about raising money – as it anticipates Phase III elafibranor data later this year. Also, Precision BioSciences launches its IPO, while Myokardia, Dermira and Tricida lead new public company financings.