Affimed turns its back on T-cell recruitment
The German group’s decision to switch focus to innate immunity had been on the cards since a deal with Roche last August.
Astra’s first attempt fails, but there’s no giving up on KRAS
After completing a phase I study Astrazeneca discontinues development of the Ionis-partnered AZD4785.
In sticking to the knitting has Array given up too much?
At a time when most of biotech seems to want to become “the next Genentech” Array Biopharma has stuck to a partnering model and, in hindsight, lost out in the process.
JP Morgan 2019 day three roundup – Abbvie rekindles the takeover flame
Day three of the biotech dog and pony show saw one pharma company that unequivocally wants and needs to buy.
Esmo 2018 – Adaptimmune gets the wooden spoon
The company emerges as the worst-performing stock after Europe’s most important cancer conference, which claims numerous other victims.
Esmo 2018 – Accelerated approval looks more doubtful for Mirati
The company's stock slumped on disappointing data from its sitravatinib-Opdivo combo lung cancer study, and on news that the group will will need to carry out a…
Mid-cap investors see Eastern promise in the third quarter
Turbulence in Japan made the country’s biopharma industry a relatively safe haven – but clinical success or setbacks dictated the fortunes of most mid and small-cap…
Mid and small caps provide another rocky ride in the second quarter
Clinical progress – or the lack of it – underpins smaller biotechs' Q2 stock performance.
Mid and small caps provide another rocky ride in the second quarter
Clinical progress – or the lack of it – underpins smaller biotechs' Q2 stock performance.
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