Rubius confirms the worst
The collapse of Rubius’s first attempt to demonstrate the worth of its red blood cell platform proves that this company should never have gone public.
Roche move endorses Iteos’s Tigit widget
A private Belgian biotech reckons Tigit is the new PD-1, a view Roche’s progress could validate.
CD47 is worth $4.9bn to Gilead
A $4.9bn buyout of Forty Seven means that Gilead remains focused on oncology, though cell therapy bulls are none the wiser.
Crunch time for the new Parkinson’s hopes
Clinical results this year from companies including Roche, Biogen and Sanofi should show whether new drug classes can arrest the development of Parkinson’s disease.
Astra turns to bispecifics to solve the treme problem
Astrazeneca reckons a bispecific approach can unlock the potential of CTLA-4 inhibition, and is to start a large phase II programme this year.
Verastem plays the Kras card
For $3m Verastem adds to its pipeline another asset that a bigger company had given up on.
Ash 2019 – Merck gets Arqule ahead of data
Arqule’s investors have done pretty nicely out of today’s buyout by Merck & Co, but might be wondering whether they could have done better still.
Upcoming events – Biolinerx takes on pancreatic cancer and first data for Homology
Biolinerx’s BL-8040 needs to show improved responses in pancreatic cancer while investors will get a first look at Homology's HMI-102, a gene therapy for…
Upcoming events – Wave takes on Huntington's and Argenx goes subcutaneous
After a delay Wave will finally see data for its Huntington's disease projects while Argenx's subcutaneous efgartigimod needs to keep the competition at bay.
