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17:12 , May 17, 2019 |  BC Extra  |  Financial News

Tools4Patient raises €4M to refine, expand placebo response analytics

As it seeks to apply its placebo response measurement tool to new therapeutic areas beyond pain, Tools4Patient has tapped investors for a €4 million ($4.5 million) series B round. The company's Placebell technology uses an...
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21:28 , Apr 25, 2019 |  BC Extra  |  Company News

Alkermes sinks after reporting Aristada sales miss

Alkermes shares fell $4.44 (13%) to $30.31 Thursday after the company reported quarterly sales of schizophrenia therapy Aristada that fell short of both its own guidance and analysts' expectations. The company attributed the shortfall to...
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22:34 , Apr 22, 2019 |  BC Extra  |  Company News

Management tracks: MeiraGTx, Retrophin, Aduro

MeiraGTx Holdings plc (NASDAQ:MGTX) said Katherine Breedis stepped down as CFO on April 16, a little over six months after she joined the gene therapy company. MeiraGTx said COO Richard Giroux will take on the...
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19:10 , Apr 12, 2019 |  BioCentury  |  Product Development

Changing models and minds to improve access to addiction treatment

A lack of acknowledgment by key stakeholders in the healthcare system that medications can treat opioid abuse, along with a fragmented reimbursement system, means that effective treatments aren’t getting to the majority of patients who...
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21:56 , Apr 10, 2019 |  BC Extra  |  Company News

U.S. fraud charges pummel Indivior shares

Indivior fell 75.90p (72%) to 30.05p on Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted the company for allegedly defrauding providers and payers to increase prescriptions of its opioid dependence drug Suboxone sublingual film. Wednesday's...
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20:38 , Apr 9, 2019 |  BC Extra  |  Company News

Management tracks: Cyclerion, Alkermes, Alder

A week after completing its spinout from Ironwood, Cyclerion has hired Andreas Busch as chief innovation officer. Busch was EVP, head of R&D and CSO at Shire plc and previously served as EVP, head of...
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00:06 , Apr 6, 2019 |  BioCentury  |  Finance

Big caps under pressure

Biogen’s fall in the wake of its decision to discontinue late-stage trials of Alzheimer’s therapy aducanumab is yet another reminder that large caps are in dire need of new pipeline products, and could serve as...
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00:04 , Apr 6, 2019 |  BioCentury  |  Finance

Everybody up

Biotech stocks were off to a strong start in 1Q19, with 71% of companies tracked by BioCentury seeing market cap growth in the quarter. Across all market cap bands, biotechs saw a median gain of...
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13:29 , Apr 5, 2019 |  BioCentury  |  Product Development

Reaching addiction patients where they’re at

Coming at the opioid crisis from two different angles, NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse and Alkermes plc have concluded that ending the epidemic will mean developing ways of getting medication to patients who fall...
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18:01 , Mar 29, 2019 |  BC Week In Review  |  Company News

FDA rejects Recro's meloxicam NDA for second time

Recro said FDA issued a second complete response letter for its NDA for IV meloxicam (N1539) to manage moderate-to-severe pain. Recro Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ:REPH) said the agency was concerned with onset and duration of IV...
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