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Astellas taps GO’s glycoprotein platform with $783.5m deal

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Astellas has become the latest big pharma company to sink some money into immuno-oncology start-up GO Therapeutics, forging an alliance to develop antibodies targeting two glycoprotein targets. The Japanese drugmaker is paying $20.5

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Where is the drug discovery expertise happening in the UK?

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Alchemab, on the other hand, has developed a highly differentiated platform which enables the identification of novel drug targets and therapeutics by analysis of patient antibody repertoires, drawing from the expertise in Cambridge to progress the company’s mission to build a broad pipeline of protective therapeutics for hard-to-treat diseases.

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CPV and AI: The Formula To Succeed In Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

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In this sense, pharmaceutical companies have developed different strategies to produce a wide variety of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) and biological products, such as monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, gene therapy viral vectors, CAR-T cells and oncolytic viruses, in order to deliver new medical needs in our society.

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2020 review – Pharma’s progress outside of COVID-19

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The results also suggest further uses for the drug in early disease and more revenues to come from one of the company’s biggest success stories from the last decade. Pharma companies have also made headway in rare diseases as several pipeline projects came to fruition. Rare disease progress.

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Big pharma vs small diseases: Tackling rare diseases

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Although they have, by definition, small addressable markets, the treatments cost just as many resources to develop as therapies for more common diseases – sometimes more, because of the added difficulty of finding sufficiently large patient populations for trials and finding disease experts to run them. How big pharma tackles rare diseases.

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Dec. 18

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Cadavid will be responsible for the strategy, direction and execution of the company’s clinical development programs. Prior to Fulcrum, Cadavid held several leadership positions at Biogen, including Senior Medical Director of the multiple sclerosis clinical development group. based Rinri Therapeutics.

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UCB revs up its gene therapy drive with Handl acquisition

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UCB has made a new foray into the gene therapy space, buying fellow Belgium-based company Handl to get control of its adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid delivery platform and two research programmes in neurodegenerative diseases. The post UCB revs up its gene therapy drive with Handl acquisition appeared first on.