Top news of the week: 08.12.2020.
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Benitec Biopharma Announces 2020 Annual Stockholder Meeting
HAYWARD, Calif., Dec. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Benitec Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNTC), today announced that its 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held virtually on Wednesday ...
Chinese biotech Zai Lab nabs Roche cancer veteran as new R&D exec, drug hunter
Zai Lab is looking to boost its cancer credentials and pipeline with the appointment of Roche oncology vet Alan Sandler, M.D.
UK biotech company ILC Therapeutics announces first international investment
Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1st December 2020: UK-based biotechnology company ILC Therapeutics (ILCT) today announced that it has secured significant investment from its first global investor ...
Revamped park honoring biotech leader Henri Termeer is unveiled in Cambridge
The Termeer Foundation unveiled the nearly $4 million project Thursday in a virtual ceremony, capping three years of planning and design.
J&J buys an early-stage gene therapy for the eye — the only known program for an under-the-radar biotech
Just weeks after MeiraGTx touted their latest update on data emerging from their gene therapy alliance with J&J on inherited retinal diseases, the pharma giant is back with an acquisition ...
#ASH20: Orca’s team showcases their first cut of the data on promising cell purification work for HSCT
For decades now hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation has offered a risky, possibly life-threatening and sometimes curative effort for treating hematological malignancies. Taking some ...
#ASH20: Bain execs step in to position a somewhat battered and bruised Syros with a new clinical candidate and enough money to charge ahead
Syros $SYRS CEO Nancy Simonian had more than data to discuss during the virtual ASH sessions this weekend. On top of a new cut of the data for their lead cancer drug, SY-1425, a trio of ...
Clover nears pivotal trial of GSK-adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine
Clover Biopharmaceuticals is set to start a phase 2/3 clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine featuring an adjuvant from GlaxoSmithKline. The Chinese vaccine developer committed to starting ...