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San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Evofem, Cullgen, BrainLeap & More

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Get the details on these developments and more in San Diego life sciences news: —Evofem Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVFM ) struck a deal to raise up to $80 million in a private placement. percent premium, or about $1 more per share than the previous day’s closing price, for about 6.6 million shares. million shares.

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Bio Roundup: Dunsire’s Danish, Price Hikes, Rare-Disease Race & More

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Our friend and one of our earliest employees, San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow, died suddenly last weekend. Bruce covered everything—and everyone—in San Diego’s innovation scene, including the life sciences. Xconomy was dumbstruck this week, and not by the fireworks overhead.

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Bio Roundup: POTUS on Prices, a16z’s Fund, Aimmune’s Approval & More

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The president’s State of the Union address was wide-ranging, as they tend to be, but those who tuned in heard mention of two hot health policy topics: price transparency and drug pricing reform.

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Bio Roundup: Cerevel’s Shell, Thrive’s Rise, Drug Price Drama & More

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Bain Capital and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) launched it in 2018 with neuroscience compounds from the pharma giant’s labs. If you’ve never heard of Arya (NASDAQ: ARYBU ), it’s a shell company that Perceptive Advisors formed specifically to serve as a vehicle to take a private company public. Cerevel is young, but it’s pretty far along.

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Bio Roundup: Pfizer’s Prices, Novartis Cuts, Gene Therapy Guide & More

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Drug price changes typically happen either at the start of the calendar year or the beginning of the third quarter. Such changes are routine for many companies, but Pfizer took an unusual step this week by rolling back scheduled price increases on 40 of its drugs. In May, Trump and. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Thrive Adds $257M, Plans Pivotal Trial of Early Cancer Detection Test

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On Wednesday the Cambridge, MA-based company, which was launched last year by Third Rock Ventures, announced that New York investment firm Casdin Capital and San Diego area-based venture firm Section 32 had co-led its Series B. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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VelosBio Tacks on $137M to Advance Its ROR1-Targeting Cancer Antibody Drugs

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Dave Johnson has known UC San Diego physician and cancer reseacher Thomas Kipps for nearly 20 years.

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