Top news of the week: 25.03.2021.
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How Five Prime suitor Amgen battled multiple companies for the biotech—and won
It’s that time when the company bought out by a parent files the saga with the SEC, and, with Amgen and Five Prime Therapeutics, we found out Amgen was not the only interested party.
Oramed Forms Joint Venture Company to Develop Oral COVID-19 Vaccines
Jerusalem’s clinical-stage pharmaceutical company Oramed Pharmaceuticals is forming a joint venture with Premas Biotech to develop novel oral COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
Pfizer taps HIV, hep C antiviral research for COVID-19 pill trial
Pfizer has already seen major success with its BioNTech-partnered COVID-19 vaccine, but, now, the Big Pharma is hoping to add to the arsenal with a pandemic pill using old antiviral ...
Phase 3 Trial Shows REGEN-COV™ (casirivimab with imdevimab) Antibody Cocktail Reduced Hospitalization or Death by 70% in Non-hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. , March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- REGEN-COV also significantly shortened the duration of symptoms by 4 days All doses (8,000 mg, 2,400 mg and 1,200 mg) had similar efficacy ...
Zimmermann replaces ex-Roche pRED chief as Inotrem CEO
Inotrem has named Sven Zimmermann as CEO. Zimmermann joins the inflammatory disease biotech after overseeing a series of deals at former employers including Novimmune’s asset sale to Sobi ...
GSK fires former R&D chief Slaoui after sexual harassment allegation
GlaxoSmithKline has fired its former research boss Moncef Slaoui from the board of Galvani Bioelectronics, a company it majority owns, after an internal investigation found he sexually ...
The Dish’s Weekly Biotechnology News Wrap Up – March 19, 2021
*|RSSFEED:DATE|* Incase you missed it. We summarized the week's top biotechnology stories.
Three Biopharma Companies Debut on the Nasdaq, Raise Combined $356 Million in IPOs
It’s been another strong week of biopharma companies making their debut on a stock exchange. Over the past 48 hours, three companies, Finch Therapeutics, Connect Biopharma and Gain ...