Biotech Spotlight


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    A biotech’s difficult journey to bring a new kind of Parkinson’s drug to patients

    A series of executive turnovers at Gain Therapeutics this year precedes important early-stage Parkinson’s results that could change how the disease is treated.

    By Aug. 13, 2024
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    A biotech dousing ‘fires’ in the brain that plagued a bestselling author

    Arialys Therapeutics is developing a precision medicine treatment for a rare autoimmune encephalitis that mimics psychosis.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Aug. 7, 2024
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    A new biotech tackling IBD joins a race against Lilly and Gilead for a promising pill

    Ensho Therapeutics just launched but is already generating buzz with its phase 2-ready clinical program for inflammatory bowel disease.

    By Alexandra Pecci • July 17, 2024
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    Mining clues from a library of brain tissue samples, Cerevance takes a precision approach to CNS disorders

    Mid-stage data from the company’s lead candidate in Parkinson’s is expected later this year and could tee up an IPO.

    By July 15, 2024
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    Protein power: a biotech mining viruses to fight disease

    Flagship Pioneering-backed Prologue Medicine is harnessing the evolutionary tactics of viral proteins to systematically find new drugs.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • July 1, 2024
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    Regenerative cell therapy biotech uses IPO to blast into human trials

    Bucking conventional fundraising, FibroBiologics’ CEO Pete O’Heeron explains why the biotech company bet on themselves in the public market.

    By June 5, 2024
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    Mythic Therapeutics aims to overcome one of ADC’s long-standing challenges

    By developing ADCs that bind more directly to the target, Mythic Therapeutics believes its technology could deliver a step change for efficacy and safety.

    By Alexandra Pecci • May 30, 2024
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    Traditional gene therapies are uber-niche. Ocugen hopes to change that.

    The biotech is developing a ‘gene-agnostic’ approach to expand the patient pool for gene therapies.

    By Alexandra Pecci • April 15, 2024
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    What’s old is new: The revival of a one-time radiotherapy cancer treatment

    TAE Life Sciences is bringing radiation-based cancer therapy to clinical trials globally in the coming years.

    By April 10, 2024
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    GSK has the U.S. shingles vaccine market cornered. A jab with fewer side effects could change that.

    Curevo Vaccine is readying a phase 3 trial for a candidate it believes could have an edge over GSK’s blockbuster Shingrix.

    By Alexandra Pecci • March 19, 2024
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    Black Diamond looks to outwit cancer mutations

    Why the company’s novel therapeutics could have a competitive edge in a crowded cancer indication.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • March 4, 2024
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    Why a former BMS exec calls her new CEO role ‘unfinished business’ in cancer care

    With a focus on her “three pillars” of being a CEO, Caroline Loew explains how she’s building a new company culture at an Alkermes spinoff — and a pipeline that offers a next-gen approach to oncology.  

    By Alexandra Pecci • Feb. 6, 2024
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    One biotech’s 3 gene therapy hurdles: delivery, delivery and delivery

    4DMT’s David Kirn is looking to the future of gene therapy with delivery methods that change the paradigm.

    By Jan. 10, 2024
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    This biotech aims to expand the CRISPR toolkit for more disease targets in the liver and brain

    Arbor Biotechnologies is looking past CRISPR’s recent regulatory wins and into the next stage of gene editing.

    By Dec. 19, 2023
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    A biotech tackles drug discovery with transcription factor know-how

    Talus Bio, which developed a platform to map transcription factors, has a lead cancer candidate in the works and consults with other industry players in the complicated biology.

    By Nov. 15, 2023
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    A new delivery method muscling its way into the RNA space

    With an AOC platform targeting muscle diseases, Avidity Biosciences hopes to break open the possibilities of RNA.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Nov. 8, 2023
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    Cidara’s J&J-partnered immunotherapy could target flu and cancer

    On a roll with promising data, the commercial-stage biotech is leveraging drug-Fc conjugates to aim a new weapon at viral targets.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Oct. 26, 2023
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    An ‘inverse vaccine’ takes aim at autoimmune diseases

    Backed by Pfizer, Anokion’s innovative approach to treating celiac, MS and more is showing early promise where others failed.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Oct. 23, 2023
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    To close the pediatric innovation gap, this biotech has to think differently

    Day One Biopharmaceuticals is bucking the cancer drug development trend by working with children and adults simultaneously.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Oct. 11, 2023
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    A biotech ‘tuning’ the genome for a potentially safer gene therapy

    Tune Therapeutics is hoping to overcome the pitfalls of CRISPR-style treatments with epigenetic editing.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Oct. 9, 2023
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    Immuneering takes aim at cancer’s ‘superhighway’

    After dropping its neuroscience program earlier this year, the clinical-stage oncology company is doubling down on a candidate targeting the MAPK pathway.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Sept. 11, 2023
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    ‘We need to do better:’ A biotech CEO on standing apart from the crowd

    The CEO of Cullinan Oncology is taking a small biotech to the next step and believes the temporary financial barriers are smaller than scientific progress.

    By Aug. 29, 2023
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    Brii Biosciences aims to come up big where Sage and Biogen fell short

    The depression space recently got a stinging FDA rebuke — but Brii thinks it can break through with improved formulations.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Aug. 21, 2023
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    Why AbbVie’s former president has high hopes for this Flagship-backed biotech

    The CEO of Tessera Therapeutics believes the company’s gene writing technology could eventually cure nearly any genetic disease across patient populations.

    By Karissa Waddick • Aug. 7, 2023
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    How CymaBay overcame a NASH failure for another shot at liver disease success

    The biotech’s 2019 trial halt was a major disappointment in NASH, but a turnaround has shown late-stage potential in another liver disease with unmet needs.

    By Aug. 2, 2023