Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2020

At the start of 2020 thousands of biotechies anticipated spending the second week of June in San Diego, hobnobbing at the annual conference hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. There, topics once as unanticipated as the remote nature of the meeting shared top billing: COVID-19 and racism.

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Xconomy

APRIL 2, 2020

Flagship Pioneering founder and CEO Noubar Afeyan didn’t know a global pandemic was in the cards for 2020 when he and his team laid out three new thematic areas of focus for the company last fall. On Thursday the Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm, best known for starting and spinning out biotechs, announced it had added $1.1

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Nevertheless, senior figures remain optimistic about the industry’s prospects in 2020. Nearly half of respondents believe that political and policy uncertainty present the greatest risks in 2020, with the latest Brexit developments and approaching UK and US elections seeing concerns around political volatility growing.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2020

By month’s end, five more are anticipated to join the class of 2020 initial public offerings—and four of those are in life sciences, according to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital. So far this year four privately held companies have made the transition to trading on the public markets.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

ASCO 2020 won’t be the Windy City gathering it usually is, but drug and diagnostics developers are still raring to share fresh data from their efforts in cancer immunotherapy, targeted treatments, and early-stage screening methods during the course of the three-day scientific program.

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Xconomy

JUNE 13, 2019

The new Series B round will give San Francisco-based BlackThorn—a startup spun out of the Scripps Research Institute in 2013—the backing to run human tests of two experimental treatments. The other, for autism, could start a Phase 1 study in 2020. Those plans. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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