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STAT+: Novartis CEO joins Anthropic’s board
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Good morning. A reminder that if you’re ever feeling down about a mistake you made, there is always a way to turn it around — like how this delivery robot company has turned the issue of its robot crashing into my local bus stop into a marketing opportunity.
The need-to-know this morning
- Revolution Medicines raised $2 billion in concurrent stock and debt offerings. The mammoth financings — double what the company intended to raise — come just days after daraxonrasib, its experimental treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, was shown to double the median overall survival of patients in a Phase 3 clinical trial.
Bain Capital again creates a startup with older pharma drugs
After Bain Capital last summer said it licensed five immunology drugs from Bristol Myers Squibb, it’s now unveiling the company to take those treatments forward: a startup called Beeline Medicines.
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Good morning. A reminder that if you’re ever feeling down about a mistake you made, there is always a way to turn it around — like how this delivery robot company has turned the issue of its robot crashing into my local bus stop into a marketing opportunity.
The need-to-know this morning
- Revolution Medicines raised $2 billion in concurrent stock and debt offerings. The mammoth financings — double what the company intended to raise — come just days after daraxonrasib, its experimental treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, was shown to double the median overall survival of patients in a Phase 3 clinical trial.
Bain Capital again creates a startup with older pharma drugs
After Bain Capital last summer said it licensed five immunology drugs from Bristol Myers Squibb, it’s now unveiling the company to take those treatments forward: a startup called Beeline Medicines.
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Amgen shores up Tavneos’ FDA defense with Duke data analysis
Amgen shores up Tavneos’ FDA defense with Duke data analysis
After the FDA flagged patient deaths linked to Amgen’s rare disease drug Tavneos and called for its voluntary removal, the pharma recruited an independent data analysis from Duke researchers to help build the case for the drug’s continued market approval. Read More
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Chile offers new data on food warning label efficacy
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So much news today that I didn’t have space to write an item about hot tubs as a breeding ground for Legionnaires’ disease. Here’s the CDC report, if you’re curious.
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So much news today that I didn’t have space to write an item about hot tubs as a breeding ground for Legionnaires’ disease. Here’s the CDC report, if you’re curious.
The RNA-based medicine is one of a handful of antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates that Novartis acquired last October when it took over neuromuscular-focused Avidity Biosciences.
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