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SPACs are all the rage today. With the IPO market booming and public investors seeking better returns, blank check companies called “Special Purpose Acquisition Companies” (SPACs) have been fueling up their tanks and chasing down their merger targets. New ones are...

Otsuka's guadecitabine flunks 2 more late-phase cancer trials ntaylor Thu, 10/15/2020 - 06:39

Dewpoint, fresh off a $77M round, snags former Sanofi CMO as its new chief aalidrus Wed, 10/14/2020 - 17:44

PPD expands in China with new multifunctional clinical research lab in Suzhou aliu Wed, 10/14/2020 - 11:59

GE Healthcare's AI-fueled cardiovascular ultrasound nets FDA clearance chale Wed, 10/14/2020 - 11:10

2nd time's the charm for Codiak Biosciences and its $83M IPO aalidrus Wed, 10/14/2020 - 10:13

At first blush, we may seem an unlikely duo: An attorney for a global insurance company living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and a biotech CEO who moonlights as a kids’ basketball coach combining our voices in one blog post. But over the past few months,...

Exogenesis has announced that its Exogenesis Surgical Mask (ESM) has achieved primary endpoints of trapping and deactivating Covid-19 viral particles in simulated real-world exposures during a series of challenge tests. The ESM is intended to offer protective nose and...

9 October The US economy showed some signs of recovery in the third quarter of 2020 but unemployment claims continue to remain above pre-pandemic levels. Layoffs are expected to rise over the next few months hampering recovery. Ben Casselman, economics/business/data...

8 October Global: The global coronavirus death toll is 1,057,102 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Covid-19 infections exceed 36.2 million world wide. US: Covid-19 infections exceed 7.5 million, meanwhile, the US coronavirus death toll is 211,917...

Orthofix Medical has launched a new O-GENESIS Graft Delivery System together with AlloQuent Structural Allograft Q-Pack, a ready-to-use form of cervical and lumbar spacers for allograft procedures. The O-GENESIS Graft Delivery System is designed to provide allograft,...

8 October Francesco Saraceno, Italian economist, shared an article on European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde’s plans to retain monetary support until the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic is over. She noted that the policies adopted in the euro...

Earlier this fall, we prepared to report Phase III data for tebipenem HBr, our oral medication that, if approved, could help 2.7M patients with serious infections in the US alone go home and stay home from the hospital. By Ankit Mahadevia, CEO of Spero Therapeutics,...

Objectives Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has been central to controlling spread of SARS-CoV2. This study aims to quantify the environmental impact of this, and to model strategies for its reduction. Methods Life cycle assessment was used to determine...

Greenhealth Exchange (GX) and Healthcare Purchasing News (HPN) announced the 2nd Sustainability in Health Care Supply Chain Survey, stated a GX press release. The survey is open for responses and will close on September 30. The survey is collecting feedback from the...

We are proud to announce that Kymera Therapeutics went public, trading on the Nasdaq: KYMR, and announced an important collaboration with Sanofi. Learn more. The post Kymera Therapeutics Goes Public appeared first on Atlas Venture.

Fifty-one percent of supply chain professionals expect that the focus on their circular economy strategies will increase over the next two years, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. In May and June 2020, Gartner surveyed 528 supply chain professionals and found...

In the excitement of today’s biotech IPO market, and the bullish period since 2013, it’s almost hard to remember how painful the equity capital markets were back in the day. Read more. The post Evolution Of The Biotech IPO Markets From Busted To Booming appeared first...

September 17, 2020  –  Vizient (Irving, TX) announced that David Gillan, SVP of sourcing operations, will be the featured speaker for Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey Healthcare Club’s Genius Series on Sept. 18. Gillan will discuss how COVID-19 has disrupted the...

Since the 1950s, humans have produced about 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic. Every year, 8 million metric tons end up in the ocean. Globally, only 9% of plastics are recycled. Plastics are useful. They’re used to help make lifesaving medical supplies, lightweight,...

Korro Bio has got off a meaty series A funding round, nabbing $91.5 million to run its platform of single-base RNA edits to treat a range of diseases. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech will use the cash haul toward getting its preclinical program into the...

“You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run…” Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler, a song now enshrined in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, is what I consider the soundtrack of business development. It...

August continued to show the biotech market’s resilience in the face of the COVID pandemic with one of the biggest venture fund flows for the month ever, and a half a dozen IPOs. Kymera Therapeutics was one of those August IPOs, and as its co-founder I wanted to share...

A lifetime ago, in May 2020, I had the honor of writing my first “From the Trenches” blog. I highlighted our long-range planning (LRP) approach at Xilio Therapeutics reframed as Leaders Require Purpose. I shared our belief that aligning our long and mid-range planning...