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Lilly and Kumquat Biosciences Announce Collaboration to Discover and Develop Novel Small Molecules that Stimulate Tumor-Specific Immune Responses

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Loxo Oncology at Lilly, a research and development group of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), and Kumquat Biosciences today announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.

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Astellas and Sutro partner to develop immunostimulatory ADCs

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Astellas and Sutro will expedite the development of iADCs for three different biological targets. Sutro will oversee the research and preclinical research to detect candidate compounds and subsequently Astellas will carry out the clinical development. Furthermore, the company is entitled to get up to $422.5m

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Valneva accelerates Lyme disease vaccine R&D project with Pfizer

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Pfizer will pay up to $45 million in development related milestone payments and up to $143 million if the vaccine hits early sales targets. Valneva is paying 30% of development costs and in return Pfizer will pay tiered royalties starting at 19% and will lead late-stage development.

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AZ halts development of Beta variant COVID-19 vaccine

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AstraZeneca confirmed today that it has discontinued clinical development of a follow-up to its COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria targeted at the Beta variant of the virus, which started development before the emergence of the Delta and Omicron strains. ” Vaxzevria added almost $4 billion to its revenues last year, including $1.8

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Gilead snaps up MiroBio and its checkpoint agonists for $405m

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It reckons that its antibodies will be able to target the underlying cause of autoimmune diseases, unlike current therapies such as steroids or TNF and interleukin inhibitors that while effective are non-selective, so suppress both appropriate and inappropriate immune responses.

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Sanofi snaps up Kadmon and its transplant drug Rezurock

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Kadmon claimed approval for Rezurock (belumosudil) in July as a treatment for chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) – a common and often fatal complication that can follow a bone marrow transplant and which occurs when the donated cells mount an immune response against the transplant recipient’s tissues and organs.

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Gilead adds lupus, arthritis therapies with EVOQ alliance

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They both also include tiered royalties on sales of any products emerging from the partnerships. The hypothesis is that it will induce immune tolerance by stimulating anti-inflammatory regulatory T- (Treg) cells and cytokines that dampen down the immune response.