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Karen Weintraub
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Amgen had discarded a T cell engager and returned it to the tiny California biotech that had developed it. Now, that company, 92Bio, has begun human trials in ovarian cancer in the US — bucking the China TCE trend. Kyle LaHucik has the details here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
Ben Buelow, 92Bio CEO
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by Kyle LaHucik

A small Cal­i­for­nia start­up is re­viv­ing an ex­per­i­men­tal T cell en­gager that its sci­en­tists orig­i­nal­ly de­vel­oped but had hand­ed off to Am­gen years ago. Af­ter...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Bridge­Bio Phar­ma has re­loaded with about $1 bil­lion in a pre­ferred eq­ui­ty deal to bol­ster its re­serves ahead of three po­ten­tial drug launch­es over the...

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Nate Fernhoff, Orca Bio CEO
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by Lei Lei Wu

The FDA gave the go-ahead to Or­ca Bio’s T cell ther­a­py that would re­duce trans­plant-re­lat­ed com­pli­ca­tions for blood can­cer pa­tients.

The ther­a­py will be brand­ed...

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News Briefing: Quick hits from the biopharma web
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by ENDPOINTS

🩻 An­gi­tia Bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals drops Phase 3: The US and Chi­na biotech ter­mi­nat­ed a late-stage tri­al of AGA111 in pa­tients with de­gen­er­a­tive disc dis­ease who had...

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