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Bio Roundup: Funding Frenzy, Opioid Summit, Celgene Woes & More

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The money came from a wide range of backers, not just traditional biotech venture firms. billion, a figure compiled in the Venture Monitor Report. Biotech startups rolled in cash this week. By our count, investors put more than $800 million into life-sciences startups in four days.

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Bio Roundup: Lung Cancer Questions, Migraine Races, HIV Battle & More

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The top biopharma story of the week involves the fast-moving field of lung cancer, which, as we’ve written previously, has several key trials reading out in 2018. A big domino fell this week: data from a two-drug immunotherapy combination developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb. But the results, touted as positive, left more questions than answers.

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