An FDA-approved drug used to maintain pupil size in patients during cataract surgery and reduce postoperative eye pain has been sold to Rayner Surgical in a deal that could exceed $1 billion after…
The former CFO of Immunomedics, who helped steer the company to its $21 billion buyout by Gilead last year, has been charged with insider trading, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Usama…
Healthcare screenings and clinical trial enrollment were battered by the pandemic. But the well-known celebrity-backed Stand Up To Cancer non-profit, along with pharma and advocacy partners, has been…
A little under 20 years ago, Charlie Gersbach decided he needed to try something else. The young Georgia Tech grad student started out his career hoping to help patients regenerate injured tissues, but he found pretty much nothing worked. None of the chemical or mechanical or even electric interventions then…
A press release referred to it as simply, ‘the incident.’ But a fire at an Olainfarm site in Latvia last week has left one person dead, and injured another, the company announced Monday. Just before…
Samsung Biologics has entered an agreement with South Korean biotech GreenLight BioSciences to manufacture its mRNA Covid-19 vaccine at commercial scale, the two companies announced. Samsung…
Acepodia chairman and co-founder Patrick Yang called cancer ‘the longest war America (has) ever fought.’ So when he met Sonny Hsiao in 2016 and saw his ‘clever, very simple, elegant’ approach to…
After almost two decades of primarily being known as Alnylam’s CEO, John Maraganore is getting a new, prominent title. Maraganore is among a slate of new venture partners at ARCH Venture, joining…
Just three years after the UK government announced the creation of the VMIC as a part of a plan to develop and make vaccines in preparation for a potential pandemic, the flagship center is up for…
GenScript, Suzhou Abogen, and Walvax Biotechnology have announced the three companies will be collaborating on a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine project dubbed ABO-O28M. WalVax will submit a BLA for the…
