Alexion, newly headquartered in Boston’s Seaport District after its move from New Haven, announced in late September that it is acquiring Syntimmune, a clinical-stage biotech developing antibody therapeutics targeting the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn). Syntimmune’s SYNT001 – a humanized monoclonal antibody that inhibits the interaction of FcRn with Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgG immune complexes […]

Bedford-based Stoke Therapeutics has announced it has completed a $90 million Series B financing to advance its pipeline of antisense oligonucleotide medicines for Dravet Syndrome and other severe genetic diseases. Stoke, which launched in 2018 with a $40 million Series A investment, has identified thousands of genes that could be addressed by its proprietary TANGO […]

Enterome, a clinical-stage French biotech with its U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, has entered into a global licensing, co-development and co-promotion agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical. Enterome is developing innovative therapies to treat microbiome-associated diseases with a focus on auto-immune disease and cancer. The agreement covers Enterome’s lead investigational drug candidate EB8018 in patients with Crohn’s disease, […]

Bain Capital and Pfizer have announced the creation of Cerevel Therapeutics, a new biopharmaceutical company focused on developing drug candidates to treat disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) to be headquartered in the greater Boston area. Pfizer is contributing a portfolio of pre-commercial neuroscience assets to Cerevel, which include three clinical-stage compounds and several […]