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BioCT welcomes Analoui and Boustany to Board

BioCT welcomes two new members to its Board of Directors. Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D., is Executive Director of Venture Development and Technology Incubation Program (TIP) at...

| By Kelley Gipson

BI wins FDA approval for lung disease medicine

The FDA has approved Boehringer Ingelheim’s Ofev (nintedanib) as the first and only medicine to slow the rate of decline in pulmonary function in patients...

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SpringWorks announces IPO

SpringWorks Therapeutics reports the pricing of its initial public offering of 9,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $18.00...

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Melinta names Sanfillipo interim CEO

Melinta Therapeutics reports that Jennifer Sanfilippo has been named interim chief executive officer and director. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Sanfilippo served as senior vice...

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ABCT information sessions scheduled

Accelerator for Biosciences in Connecticut, ABCT, is a competitive entry, 6-month long program designed for entrepreneurial research students and faculty, MBA’s and MD’s interested in...

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Cybrexa names John Houston to board of directors

Cybrexa Therapeutics has appointed John Houston, PhD, to its board of directors. Dr. Houston brings more than 30 years of biotech and pharma drug development and...

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BioCT Launches New England Edge Purchasing Program

Introducing New England Edge, our new, exclusive purchasing program powered by MassBio. As a dedicated supporter of Connecticut’s bioscience industry, BioCT is constantly evaluating the...

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Europe approves Alexion SOLIRIS® treatment

Alexion Pharmaceuticals reports that the European Commission has approved the extension of the current marketing authorization of SOLIRIS® (eculizumab) to include the treatment of neuromyelitis optica...

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BioXcel gains orphan drug status re leukemia

BioXcel Therapeutics reports that the FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation for BXCL701, an investigational orally-available systemic innate immunity activator with dual mechanisms of action,...

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SpringWorks wins BTD re desmoid tumors

SpringWorks Therapeutics reports that the FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for nirogacestat, an oral, selective, small molecule, gamma-secretase inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients...