Articles Tagged 'Biopharma'

SF Business Times: Global vision for women's health lands Antiva $31M

Fierce Biotech: Tyra Biosciences named to 2021 Fierce 15 List

Fierce Biotech: Tyra Biosciences banks $173M to bring cancer resistance programs into clinic

The Long Run Podcast: Julie Grant and Sam Blackman on cancer drugs for kids

Endpoints News: Pfizer bets $1B cash on the original protein degraders as technology nears prime time

Fierce Biotech: Biotech Pfizer funnels $1B into protein degrader Arvinas, with more in biobucks on the table

Silicon Valley Business Journal: Investors pile on Stanford spinout promising new ways to attack cancer, autoimmune diseases

In Vivo: The talent crisis – How to improve recruitment and retain biopharma employees

In Vivo: Biotech’s double-edged sword – Extraordinary funding run contributes to talent crisis

Endpoints News: It’s a new $DAWN for Day One as startup pivots to an IPO for more funding to back its work in pediatric cancer

Fierce Biotech: Qlaris, armed with $25M round, pushes new glaucoma drug into clinic

Forbes: Nearly 50% of venture-backed healthcare companies have no women on the board, new report shows

Endpoints News: Why do some targeted cancer therapies stop working? For Tyra, that's the $106M question

FierceBiotech: Tyra Biosciences banks $106M, adds to C-suite as it aims for the clinic in 2022

A milestone in targeted oncology and looking ahead

Fierce Biotech: Childhood cancer-focused Day One banks $130M for pan-RAF inhibitor

SF Business Times: Targeting more childhood cancers, Day One raises $130M

Endpoints News: With 'rapid' progress of pediatric brain cancer treatment, Day One sees broad excitement in new crossover round

Timmerman Report: No longer an afterthought -- Day One raises $130M for childhood cancer therapies

Fierce Biotech: Rallybio hires Tuch from BMO to lead corporate development

Fierce Biotech: Ideaya, Spelman College team up to provide young African American women a stepping stone to biotech careers

Nina Kjellson: More than words. Extreme(ly) satisfying steps together towards greater health equity

Endpoints News: Vivace Therapeutics scores $30M Series C to take oncology candidate for 'Hippo' pathway to human trial next year

Fierce Biotech: Vivace snares $30M to push Hippo-targeting drugs into the clinic

FierceBiotech: Arvinas eyes a busy 2021 as protein degraders gather steam in breast, prostate cancers

MedCity News: Consumer awareness, needs generating shifts in precision medicine landscape

C&EN: The year in pharma - IPO window remained wide open

Endpoints News: Canaan raises another $800M as it launches its next fund with an emphasis on biotech

BioCentury: Gilead BD head Bender takes top job at pediatric cancer start-up Day One

Fierce Biotech: Childhood cancer-focused Day One snags Gilead alum Bender for CEO

Fierce Biotech: Synthekine debuts with $82M, Stanford tech to create a new generation of cytokine therapies

Endpoints News: A longtime CytomX exec re-emerges at Synthekine, an $82M Stanford spinout

Fierce Biotech: Nocion grabs new CMO as it kicks off COVID-19 cough study

Business Insider: Meet the 21 biotech startups that top VCs say are poised to take off in the next 12 months

Endpoints News: Gilead lines up a $1.55B biotech buyout deal as CEO Dan O’Day invests in his latest cancer blockbuster dream

MedCityNews: Julie Grant on how the pandemic has changed investing

BioCentury: With equity-and-option deal for Tizona, Gilead places latest bet on cancer immunosuppression

FierceBiotech: Partnered and backed by AbbVie, but cancer I-O biotech Tizona targeted by Gilead

FierceBiotech: COVID-19 close-up: Nocion CEO Batycky on controlling cough to control spread

Endpoints News: Billions on the table, GSK’s Hal Barron antes $120M cash to partner with Ideaya

Fierce Biotech: GlaxoSmithKline pens $120M upfront synthetic lethality cancer pact with Fierce 15 winner Ideaya

BioCentury: With Ideaya deal, GSK bulks up synthetic lethality side of oncology business

Nina Kjellson: Biotechnology in the time of COVID-19

Timmerman Report: Finding a path in biotech VC - Nina Kjellson on The Long Run Podcast

WSJ Pro VC: Cancer drugmaker Day One Biopharmaceuticals launches with $60 million

STAT News: Startup Spotlight - Aiming to speed precision cancer therapies to children

Julie Grant: Cancer drug development comes of age - The inspiration behind Day One Biopharmaceuticals

FierceBiotech: Day One debuts with $60M to change cancer care—starting with children

FierceBiotech: Arvinas unveils first-in-human data for novel protein degrader in prostate cancer

Endpoints News: Roche makes a platform play, betting $190M in cash on Arrakis’ long-haul plans to drug RNA

STAT News: Roche partners with Arrakis Therapeutics to develop drugs that target RNA

FierceBiotech: Biotech Arrakis, Roche team up on RNA-targeting drugs in $190M deal

San Francisco Business Times: "Say it" - Nina Kjellson, Amy DuRoss and Gail Maderis on the barriers to funding women's health issues

BioCentury: Beyond PROTACs and the proteasome - broadening the TAC toolbox

CNBC: These start-ups are racing to help doctors detect cancer early with a simple blood test

Endpoints News: RA Capital, Canaan help infuse $50M into Alta-incubated biotech battling acquired resistance to TKIs

BioCentury: Pact’s $75M series C gives Vida’s Kite alumni long-sought stab at personalized cell therapy

FierceBiotech: Tyra Biosciences takes aim at treatment-resistant tumors with $50M raise

Endpoints News: Canaan backs Pathios' search for small molecule drugs that hit 'orphan' GCPR

FierceBiotech: Canaan Partners promotes Julie Grant to general partner

Xconomy: With $9.5M, Intrepida Bio launches to target pancreatic cancer & more

FierceBiotech: Nocion Therapeutics named to Fierce 15

WoVen Podcast: Working with grit (and a patient's perspective) in women’s health - A conversation with Gail Maderis

FierceBiotech: A personalized CAR-T to attack every solid tumor? PACT Pharma has a plan

MedCityNews: Pact Pharma enrolls first patients in Phase Ia/Ib solid tumor cell therapy study

Wired: These protein picker-uppers keep your cells clean and healthy

WoVen Podcast: Crafting success (and balance) in venture - A conversation with Wende Hutton

Endpoints News: Bayer enlists Arvinas on two-pronged protein degradation effort, foraying into agtech

Welcome Nils Lonberg

Tim Shannon in BioCentury: Making orphan drug prices work for society

Endpoints News: Four biotechs, including NextCure, haul in $303M+ from a fresh burst of IPOs

Business Insider: Scientists are working on cancer treatments that attack the disease's 'Holy Grail"

STAT News: Nils Lonberg, the entrepreneur behind the cancer immunotherapy revolution

STAT News: Arrakis' lofty goal: Kill cancer with pills that target RNA instead of proteins

FierceBiotech: Nocion launches with $27M and 'charged drugs' to selectively target pain

Business Insider: Nocion raises $27M to make a new kind of painkiller as the race to replace opioids heats up

STAT News: How one company, Nocion, thinks unraveling cough can provide a new way to treat pain

Julie Grant: Announcing Nocion Therapeutics, a novel approach to neurogenic inflammation

Nature: Protein-slaying drugs could be the next blockbuster therapies

Nature Reviews: First targeted protein degrader, developed by Arvinas, hits the clinic

BioCentury: Wende Hutton on mapping microbiome manufacturing

Endpoints News: Canaan leaps into UK biotech, co-leading $14M Series A for upstart Grey Wolf

Business Insider: Wende Hutton and top VCs give their best 2019 predictions for healthcare

SF Business Times: Antiva CEO draws on personal experience to fuel drug development

Nasdaq: Cancer biotech Arvinas prices upsized IPO at $16

Business Insider: Julie Grant named 40-and-under Silicon Valley biotech investing star

STAT News: Antiva tried to drum up interest for a much-needed drug. Many men didn’t get it

Nina Kjellson: "Jumping together" to move the field of personalized cancer therapy

BioCentury: Why GV and Canaan backed PACT Pharma's hyperpersonalized cancer approach

Endpoints News: Brent Aherns weights in on FDA's new reimbursement idea for antibiotics

Tim Shannon: More hope for cystic fibrosis treatment, and still more to do

Endpoints: Virtual biotech Antiva sets out on a big R&D quest, armed with a $22 million round for an HPV therapy

Scientific American: New thalidomide-like therapy hijacks cells’ trash-disposal system

Fierce Biotech: Mackay’s Rallybio rare disease startup raises $37M in first funding round

Nina Kjellson: Practical tips from two male biotech CEOs who are leaning in

IDEAYA & the Next Frontier in Synthetic Lethality

Business Insider: Wende Hutton shares her best career advice