? San Diego-based Equillium has nabbed an orphan drug designation for EQ001 on the verge of beginning a Phase Ib/II for the immuno-inflammatory drug. Also known as itolizumab, the drug was in-licensed from India’s Biocon, which sells it in the country as a psoriasis treatment. Equillium $EQ, however, is focusing its US clinical work on the prevention and treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease — a strategy that has allowed it to skip financing rounds and jump str
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TKI biotech lays out plans to raise about $125M in IPO; Hookipa sets terms for upsized $100M IPO
? San Diego-based Turning Point Therapeutics has laid out terms for its IPO, planning to sell 7.4 million shares at a range of $16 to $18 a share. Renaissance Capital reports that insiders expect to take about 40% of a total of around $125 million, whi… […]
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Pfizer takes its option in AnTolRx deal; Secura Bio scores access to $145M for cancer drug launches
? Two-and-a-half years after Pfizer stepped up to seed the biotech startup AnTolRx, the pharma giant has stepped in to take their option on an immune tolerance therapy for Type 1 diabetes. Based on the lab work of Francisco Quintana, a professor of neu… […]
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Lilly, Incyte’s baricitinib wins fast-track status for hard-to-treat lupus; Synthorx hammers out $150M+ IPO
? Rheumatoid arthritis drug Olumiant — approved for a narrower-than-expected patient population earlier this year to the dismay of its manufacturer Eli Lilly $LLY and Incyte $INCY which had blockbuster dreams for the drug — may be worth its weight in g… […]
