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Ebola response: WHO escalates Bundibugyo outbreak
WHO declared the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern, escalating an outbreak now spreading across DRC and reaching...
Biopharma AI dealmaking: data platforms deepen
Collaborative Drug Discovery expanded its AI collaboration with Eli Lilly by planning tighter integration of Lilly TuneLab predictive models into CDD Vault workflows. The agreement targets ADMET...
AI in oncology prognosis: multimodal models
Researchers published a multimodal AI framework intended to improve breast cancer prognostication, combining multiple data sources into a single predictive approach. The study, led by Witowski,...
Drug development financing & IPO pipeline: Parabilis
Parabilis filed for an IPO to fund development of its Wnt/β-catenin pathway inhibitor zolucatetide for desmoid tumors, shortly after inking a research collaboration with Regeneron. The IPO filing...
Corporate deal: Regeneron expands “undruggable” modality
Regeneron and Parabilis announced a collaboration worth up to roughly $2.3 billion to develop Antibody-Helicon Conjugates aimed at historically undruggable intracellular targets. The program...
Company execution: FDA clearances for Diasorin point-of-care syndromic testing
Diasorin said the FDA granted 510(k) clearance for a customizable syndromic GI pathogen PCR panel built for its Liaison Plex platform. The Liaison Plex Gastrointestinal Flex Assay detects 24...
Immunology/oncology pipeline: FcRn inhibitor readout rebounds interest
Immunovant’s IMVT-1402 FcRn inhibitor produced “really great” responses in an ongoing Phase 2b open-label dataset in difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis, according to CEO Matt Gline. Shares...
Biotech IPO/financings: cAMPfield lands major Series A
San Diego startup cAMPfield Therapeutics raised $180 million in a Series A, according to the announcement, positioning the company to develop inflammatory and immunology therapies built on...
Parabilis–Regeneron Helicon pact and IPO plans
Parabilis Medicines moved to the public markets, filing for an IPO days after signing a major strategic research collaboration with Regeneron to pursue “undruggable” targets. The Regeneron deal...
Guardant upgraded liquid CDx wins FDA approval
Guardant Health said the FDA has approved its upgraded Guardant360 Liquid CDx, a blood-based liquid biopsy intended to guide treatment decisions in advanced cancer. The company said the test...
Personalis expands Medicare coverage for tumor-informed MRD monitoring
Personalis said CMS expanded Medicare coverage for its NeXT Personal minimal residual disease (MRD) test to include monitoring response to neoadjuvant treatment in patients with stage II to III...
Mekanistic’s MTX-531 clears FDA IND for Phase 1 in solid tumors
Mekanistic Therapeutics reported that the FDA cleared an IND for MTX-531, the company’s lead oncology candidate, marking the start of a Phase 1 study in patients with advanced solid tumors...
Create Medicines raises for in vivo CAR platforms
Create Medicines secured $122 million in a Series B financing to advance therapies using mRNAs delivered via liquid nanoparticles to express CARs in multiple immune-cell types inside patients. The...
Lilly acquires Engage Biologics for preclinical DNA delivery
Eli Lilly agreed to acquire Engage Biologics in a deal valued at $202 million, expanding its genetic medicines pipeline with Engage’s non-viral DNA delivery platform. The preclinical biotech...
Incyte and Edison expand AI-fueled drug discovery pact
Incyte expanded its AI partnership with Edison Scientific, paying $80 million upfront to broaden use of Edison’s platform across additional drug-discovery targets. The collaboration centers on...
Qiagen adds Nvidia BioNeMo integration for biomedical knowledge graphs
Qiagen said it is working with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia BioNeMo and accelerated computing into Qiagen Digital Insights’ curated biomedical knowledgebases. The goal is to enable greater use of AI...
Ebola outbreak escalates—WHO declares PHEIC (Bundibugyo)
The WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern, citing confirmation of the Bundibugyo species and a high positivity rate...
Capsida closes SYNRGY gene therapy trial after fatal cerebral edema
Capsida Biotherapeutics said it has closed its SYNRGY Phase I/II gene therapy trial for STXBP1 after a child death following infusion of CAP-002, with the company reporting cerebral edema as the...
NeXT Personal MRD test expands payer coverage for treatment monitoring
Personalis said the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded coverage for its NeXT Personal minimal residual disease (MRD) test to include monitoring response to neoadjuvant...
Regeneron- Parabilis Helicon platform deal and stake
Regeneron entered a multi-target strategic collaboration with Parabilis Medicines built around the Helicon peptide platform, committing payments and equity investment that could total about $2.3...