Susan Desmond-Hellmann joined VC firm GV as an adviser. She recently joined the board of Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) after stepping down as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in December. Previously, she spent...

Insmed rose $8.34 (41%) to $28.88 on Monday, gaining $745 million in market cap, after its chronic lung inflammation therapy met the primary endpoint in a Phase II study. But the data, which included an...

Rare metabolic disease company Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:RYTM) said Keith Gottesdiener will step down as CEO, president and a board member after more than eight years. He will stay on through the company’s submission of...

A mix of preclinical and clinical data spurred Alkermes' takeout of Rodin, which adds HDAC-targeting programs to the biotech's CNS arsenal. The deal comes less than a month after Alkermes plc (NASDAQ:ALKS) restructured to maintain...

Unlike any other theory in drug development, the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease has maintained an almost cult-like following, despite two decades littered with a long line of late-stage failures and not a single success....

Mereo BioPharma Group plc (LSE:MPH) announced a merger with OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:OMED); the resulting entity will focus on development of Mereo's orphan disease pipeline and will be listed on London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ....

Ahead of the anticipated 2019 launch of avapritinib, Blueprint Medicines Corp. (NASDAQ:BPMC) hired Christina Rossi into the newly created role of chief commercial officer. She was the multiple sclerosis business unit head of North America...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researchers and a team from two Italian institutions have published two different strategies to fight immune-mediated lung metastases. Dormant cancer cells can persist for years before awakening and proliferating, leading to...

Based on work spearheaded by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. will be the first company to attempt to gain approval in CF based on pulmonary exacerbations instead of FEV1. The company is...

United Neuroscience Ltd.’s pipeline comprises immunotherapeutic vaccines that selectively stimulate B cell responses against endogenous neurotoxic proteins. Its lead candidate UB-311 is an anti-beta amyloid vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease designed to improve cognition while avoiding...