Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) announced today an agreement with PTC Therapeutics, Inc. to acquire additional royalties on Roche’s Evrysdi for $1.0 billion upfront. The agreement includes options for PTC to sell up to all of its retained royalties on Evrysdi for up to $500 million or for Royalty Pharma to acquire half of such retained royalties for up to $250 million at a later date.
10/19/2023
Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITCI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) disorders, today announced several CAPLYTA data presentations at the 2023 Psych Congress held September 6 - 10, 2023 in Nashville.
9/11/2023
Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) and Ferring Pharmaceuticals today announced that Royalty Pharma has acquired a synthetic royalty on US net sales of Ferring’s Adstiladrin® (nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg) for up to US $500 million comprised of an upfront payment of US $300 million and a US $200 million milestone payment. The milestone payment is contingent on certain manufacturing goals that are expected to be achieved in 2025 for the FDA-approved intravesical gene therapy that Ferring will make available next month through an early experience program for the treatment of adult patients with high-risk, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with carcinoma in situ (CIS) with or without papillary tumors.
8/24/2023
Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITCI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) disorders, today announced several CAPLYTA data presentations at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) Annual Meeting being held in Miami, May 30 - June 2, 2023.
5/31/2023
Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITCI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) disorders, today announced positive topline results from Study 403 evaluating lumateperone 42mg as monotherapy in the treatment of major depressive episodes in patients with major depressive disorder with mixed features and in patients with bipolar depression with mixed features.
3/28/2023
Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX), the largest buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties and a leading funder of innovation across the life sciences industry, and PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to changing the treatment paradigm for devastating diseases, today announced that Royalty Pharma has acquired an interest in PureTech’s royalty in Karuna Therapeutics’ KarXT for up to $500 million with $100 million in cash up front and up to $400 million in additional payments contingent on the achievement of certain regulatory and commercial milestones.
3/23/2023
Calyxt, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLXT), a plant-based synthetic biology company, and Cibus, a leader in precision gene editing in agriculture, today announced that both companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Calyxt and Cibus will merge in an all-stock transaction. The merger will create a new industry-leading company that combines the two pioneers in agriculture-based gene editing and establishes one of the world's most sophisticated facilities for trait development and next-generation plant breeding.
1/17/2023
Annals of Internal Medicine. Published online on November 8, 2022, 10.7326/M22-1438.
11/8/2022
ADC Therapeutics SA (NYSE: ADCT) today announced it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi®) for the development and commercialization of ZYNLONTA® for all hematologic and solid tumor indications outside of the United States, greater China, Singapore and Japan.
7/8/2022
Enterin brings a unique steroid close to market with help from Pfizer. Pfizer is the world’s largest drug company, and its visibility has only grown in the past 2 years after its launch of both a vaccine and a therapy for COVID-19. Together, those products will generate about $54 billion in sales for Pfizer this year.
7/4/2022
LiquiGlide®, the inventors of a breakthrough technology that is revolutionizing products, packaging, processes, and patient experiences by eliminating the friction between solids and liquids, Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, and Atlas Credit Partners, an asset management firm focused on value-oriented credit investments, today announced the completion of an intellectual-property based financing deal that provides LiquiGlide with $35 million to expand its commercial activities and continue to develop its platform for new applications.
4/22/2022
Today VERIGRAFT announces that the company has successfully reached the safety assessment milestone in the first patient of the TECVI-1 clinical trial in which the safety of P-TEV for the treatment of CVI is investigated.
3/2/2022
Intelinair and Airbus announced today a multi-year collaboration agreement that will provide high-resolution, Airbus satellite imagery as an input to Intelinair’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered crop analytics AGMRI® platform to deliver a complete view of every acre, every field from planting to harvest.
2/23/2022
Enterin Inc., a privately held, Philadelphia-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering novel treatments for neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases, announces the conclusion of a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind Phase 2b (KARMET) study involving 150 patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD).
1/27/2022
ADC Therapeutics SA (NYSE: ADCT), a commercial-stage biotechnology company improving the lives of those affected by cancer with its next-generation, targeted antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) for patients with hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, today announced it has entered an exclusive license agreement with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC) for the development and commercialization of ZYNLONTA® (loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl) for all hematologic and solid tumor indications in Japan.
1/18/2022
Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITCI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) disorders, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved CAPLYTA for the treatment of depressive episodes associated with bipolar I or II disorder in adults, as monotherapy and as adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate.
12/20/2021
ADC Therapeutics SA (NYSE: ADCT), a commercial-stage biotechnology company improving the lives of those affected by cancer with its next-generation, targeted antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) for patients with hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, today announced its Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for ZYNLONTA®, a CD19-targeted ADC for the treatment of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), has been validated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Validation of the application enables the evaluation process by the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) to begin.
10/29/2021
Cibus, a leading agricultural biotechnology company, announced today the appointment of Rory Riggs, co-founder, and Chairman of Cibus, to serve as Chief Executive Officer. He will succeed Peter Beetham, PhD, also a Cibus co-founder, who has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of the 20-year-old company.
10/7/2021
Overland ADCT BioPharma, a joint venture created by Overland Pharmaceuticals and ADC Therapeutics SA (NYSE: ADCT), today announced the first patient has been dosed with ZYNLONTA®in a pivotal Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with relapsed or refractory (r/r) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in China.
9/29/2021
Pablo Graiver, founder and former CEO of Antidote, has joined Drumroll Health as its new Chief Executive Officer. The company also announced that industry veterans Paul Bleicher and Ritesh Patel have joined the Advisory Board, alongside Craig Lipset and Jennifer Levin Carter.
9/29/2021
