Galapagos N.V. (Euronext:GLPG; NASDAQ:GLPG) promoted Bart Filius to president from CFO while remaining COO. CEO Onno van de Stolpe will be responsible for oversight of R&D activities. Caroline Litchfield will succeed Robert Davis as CFO of Merck...

After Qiming closed its sixth RMB fund in late January, Managing Partner Nisa Leung is looking ahead to her firm’s second public listing this year, one that she believes could clear a path for...

Preclinical publications highlighted in BioCentury’s Distillery this year identified white space target opportunities including untapped E3 ubiquitin ligases, vesicular regulators and ion channels, as...

DISEASE CATEGORY: Autoimmune disease INDICATION: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); Crohn’s disease Inhibiting ZDHHC7 and LYPLA2 — two genes that regulate membrane localization of the...

Hackers working for Russian intelligence services are targeting COVID-19 vaccine R&D in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., according to a report released Thursday by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre and Canada’s Communications Security...

Weiji (危机), the Chinese term for crisis, combines the characters for “danger” and “opportunity,” an apt description of the challenge posed by COVID-19. While most of the world struggles with pandemic containment and ‘re-opening,’ China,...

New Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers: March 2019 Select top therapeutic targets and biomarkers covered by BioCentury or added to the BCIQ database during March. Therapeutic targets are defined as any protein, gene or other molecule...

Adare said it plans to start a Phase III program next half of APT-1011 (AdvaTab Fluticasone) to treat eosinophilic esophagitis after reporting that the product met the primary endpoint in the Phase IIb FLUTE trial...

DISEASE CATEGORY: Cancer INDICATION: Melanoma Mouse studies suggest activating MC1R by expressing ZDHHC13 or inhibiting LYPLA2 could help treat melanoma. In a mouse model of melanoma, transgenic expression of human ZDHHC13, which palmitoylates MC1R to...

INDICATION: Breast cancer Mouse studies suggest inhibiting IL-1β alone or in combination with PD-1 could help treat breast cancer. In a mouse model of breast cancer, IL-1β knockdown or an anti-IL-1β antibody decreased tumor growth...