Ep. 382 - Summer’s venture wave; drugging beta-catenin; Capricor & FDA

A baker’s dozen of biotechs shrugged off the summer haze to raise nearly $800 million in venture cash. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the financings, which included money for a potential challenger to Amgen’s blockbuster Tepezza and a new venture from immunology professor Georg Schett with backing from Deerfield Management, Boulevard Bio.
The analysts also discuss new approaches to drug cancer’s “undruggable” β-catenin pathway, and whether Capricor’s latest regulatory move will give Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy deramiocel new life at FDA.

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00:00 - Introduction
02:18 - Venture Rounds
12:02 - Drugging β-catenin
18:12 - Capricor & FDA

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