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REGENERON’S ANTIBODY COCKTAIL REGN-EB3 (INMAZEB®) IS FIRST FDA-APPROVED TREATMENT FOR EBOLA (ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS)

In a large clinical trial, Inmazeb showed superiority compared to other investigational agents (ZMapp and remdesivir) with respect to mortality; treatment was most effective when given early in the course of disease1 Inmazeb (atoltivimab, maftivimab and odesivimab-ebgn) is a novel anti-viral antibody medicine developed using the same ‘rapid response’ technologies as Regeneron’s investigational COVID-19 antibody…

2020 10 25 Biotech (General)
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Bausch Health And BHVI Announce Exclusive Global Licensing Agreement For Myopia Control Contact Lens

Second Exclusive License Strengthens Bausch + Lomb’s Global Research Focus on Myopia SYDNEY and LAVAL, QC, Oct. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) (“Bausch Health”) and Bausch + Lomb, its leading global eye health business, along with BHVI, an Australian not-for-profit organization with an international focus on vision research, announced today that an…

2020 10 17 Biotech (General)

Japan Grants Patent to Brainstorm Covering Technique for NurOwn

The Japan Patent Office has granted a patent to Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics covering the proprietary technique that generates the company’s cell-based therapy NurOwn from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Through this technique, researchers can harness MSCs directly from a patient and mature them into cells that produce high levels of neurotrophic factors, which are compounds that…

2020 09 25 ALS
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Bausch Health Announces Its Intention To Spin Off Its Eye Health Business Into An Independent Publicly Traded Company

LAVAL, QC, Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) (“Bausch Health” or the “Company”) today announced that it intends to spin off its leading eye health business into an independent publicly traded entity (“Bausch + Lomb – NewCo”) from the remainder of Bausch Health (“BHC”). The spinoff will establish two separate…

2020 08 07 Biotech (General)
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Celularity announces the activation of first California Clinical Trial Site following CIRM Grant Award to Advance Treatments for COVID-19

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Aug. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Celularity today announced that it has been awarded a $750,000 COVID-19 Project grant by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the three clinical awards targeting the coronavirus. This grant will support California Institutions participating in the Phase I/II clinical trial of human placental hematopoietic stem cell derived natural killer (NK)…

2020 08 06 Biotech (General)
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BCLI: ALS ASSOCIATION AND I AM ALS AWARDS $500,000 GRANT; POTENTIAL INCLUSION IN RUSSELL 3000 INDEX…

$500,000 Grant from ALS Association and I AM ALS On June 9, 2020, BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCLI) announced a combined grant of $500,000 from the ALS Association and I AM ALS to support an ALS biomarker study utilizing samples and data from the ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial of NurOwn® in ALS patients. The goal of…

2020 06 11 ALS
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AstraZeneca approaches Gilead about merging

NEW YORK — AstraZeneca PLC has made a preliminary approach to rival drug maker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health care deal on record. The UK company informally contacted Gilead last month to gauge its interest in a possible tie-up,…

2020 06 08 Biotech (General)

FDA hits Novartis with unexpected 3-month delay on MS drug ofatumumab

Last week, Novartis was touting positive data showing its repurposed leukemia drug ofatumumab outpaced Sanofi’s Aubagio in a multiple sclerosis trial. Now, Novartis has revealed that the FDA, which was supposed to hand down a verdict on the drug this month, needs until September to make the decision. What happened? Novartis isn’t saying much. MORE……

2020 06 04 Biotech (General)
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Gilead to donate 300,000 more remdesivir doses to US hospitals

Gilead will increase the number of doses of remdesivir it’s donating to the federal government in the next six weeks, STAT reported. The drugmaker had planned to donate 607,000 vials of remdesivir — the drug that received FDA emergency approval for use in treating COVID-19 patients after it was shown to shorten recovery time in patients with the virus…

2020 05 20 COVID-19

Compass raises $80M to take magic mushroom drug toward phase 3

Compass Pathways has raised $80 million to prepare its psilocybin therapy for phase 3 development. The London-based biotech is advancing the drug, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for use in people with treatment-resistant depression. Psilocybin was studied in the 1960s, but research ground to a halt over the following decades. Teams at academic centers including the…

2020 04 28 Biotech (General)
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