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Biotech Leaders Urge FDA to ‘Modernise’ Regulation to Compete with China
FDA; biotech; regulation; modernization; China; cell and gene therapy; CEO roundtable; competitiveness; innovation
Merck Advances Middle Dose of ROR1 ADC in Relapsed/Refractory DLBCL After Safety Review
Merck; ROR1; ADC; zilovertamab vedotin; middle dose; 1.75 mg/kg; relapsed DLBCL; refractory DLBCL; WaveLINE-003; safety; adverse events; clinical trial; ASCO 2025
Astellas Secures $1.34B Licensing Deal for CLDN18.2-Targeted ADC with Evopoint Biosciences
Astellas; Evopoint Biosciences; CLDN18.2; antibody-drug conjugate; ADC; licensing deal; oncology; XNW27011
Merck, Daiichi Sankyo Withdraw FDA Application for HER3-Targeting ADC After Survival Endpoint Miss
Merck; Daiichi Sankyo; patritumab deruxtecan; HER3 ADC; FDA application; non-small cell lung cancer; clinical trial; overall survival; application withdrawal
Sanofi Acquires Vigil Neuroscience for $470 Million, Bolstering Alzheimer’s Drug Pipeline
Sanofi; Vigil Neuroscience; acquisition; Alzheimer’s disease; TREM2 agonist; VG-3927; microglia; neurodegenerative disease; Phase 2 trials; biotech deals
AbbVie Advances Solid Tumor Program with FDA Approval of Emrelis for Lung Cancer
AbbVie; Emrelis; FDA Approval; ADC; solid tumor; lung cancer; non-small cell lung cancer; c-Met overexpression; telisotuzumab vedotin-tllv; accelerated approval
Federal Appeals Court Revives CRISPR Patent Dispute Between Broad Institute and University of California
CRISPR; patent dispute; Broad Institute; University of California; Federal Circuit; PTAB; gene editing; intellectual property; eukaryotic cells
Caribou cuts 32% of staff, further purges pipeline to focus on 2 oncology CAR-T prospects
Reindeer, CAR-T, Staff, Neoplasms, Cell Therapy, Allogeneic CRISPR-edited Anti-CD19 CAR-T Cells CB-010, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, Leukemia, Myelocytic, Acute, United States Food and Drug Administration, 32%
Versant’s Granite Bio unveils with $100M for new autoimmune disease antibodies
Autoimmune Diseases, granite, GRT-001, Versant, interleukin-3
Steminent Stands Ready to Showcase Novel MSC-based Therapy for Spinocerebellar Ataxia at Global Stage
Ataxia, Spinocerebellar, Stemchymal, Machado-Joseph Disease, Spinocerebellar, Ataxia, Mesenchymal Stem Cells