Vanessa Doctor, RN

Venatorx Pharmaceuticals shared that its Phase III trial on the investigational treatment for complicated urinary tract infections in adults delivered positive outcomes.
Researchers saw that programmed death ligand 1 on dendritic cells could control adaptive immune responses within adipose tissues to limit diet-induced obesity.
Gilead Sciences is letting go of 114 employees following an underwhelming response to the results reaped so far from its $21 billion acquisition of Immunomedics in 2020.
Solve FSHD exists to fund biotechnology and biopharmaceutical research and development efforts toward finding a treatment and cure for FSHD.
The XTEND-1 study showed that efanesoctocog alfa met its primary endpoint of clinically meaningful bleed prevention in people ages 12 years and older with severe hemophilia.
Voyager has partnered with Novartis for the latter to use the gene therapy company’s capsid discovery platform to create new treatments for three undisclosed CNS targets.
Three biotech firms announced a change in leadership recently, led by Pardes Biosciences, followed by HUTCHMED and BeiGene. Read the details below.
Atlas Venture raised $450 million at the close of its thirteenth fundraising activity to support efforts to create and invest in new biotech firms that address many unmet patient needs.
Members of the Sackler family will dedicate at least $5.5 billion plus 100% of the debtors’ assets to opioid abatement and victims.
In the Phase III MELODY trial, researchers found a 74.5% lower incidence of respiratory syncytial virus-caused pneumonia, and bronchiolitis. Here’s more about it.
The FDA has not yet issued any hold orders to Cassava, but the company expects that its time is coming after rivals Denali and Cortexyme received theirs.
The FDA asked Finch to pause enrollment for the trial on CP101 in recurrent C. difficile infection, pending details on how SARS-CoV-2 donor samples will be shipped to the vendor.
Flagship will pour in $75 million into Vesalius to support its beginnings, while Rondo raised $67 million to support the development of its preclinical pipeline.
AstraZeneca and Neurimmune have signed an exclusive global collaboration and licensing deal to develop, manufacture and commercialize NI006 for ATTR-CM.
Positive interim data from the global Phase I trial of single-dose NTLA-2001 demonstrated a mean serum TTR reduction of 93% at the highest dose level of 1.0 mg/kg by day 28.