Caris Life Sciences Raises $830 Million in Growth Equity Capital to Continue to Expand its Precision Medicine Platform

Caris Life Sciences Raises $830 Million in Growth Equity Capital to Continue to Expand its Precision Medicine Platform
Accelerates Caris’ rapid growth as the market leader reshaping precision oncology through basic science research and the application of artificial intelligence to one of the largest clinico-genomic databases

Capital raise represents one of the largest private financings in precision medicine supported by a diverse, high-quality syndicate of leading investorsContinue reading

CSL Behring Announces Closing of Global Commercialization and License Agreement with uniQure for etranacogene dezaparvovec

• Etranacogene dezaparvovec (AMT-061) is an investigational gene therapy that may potentially provide people with hemophilia B with years of functional levels of Factor IX, a blood-clotting protein that prevents excessive bleeding.

• uniQure will complete the Phase 3 HOPE-B trial and scale up manufacture for initial commercial supply under an agreed plan with CSL Behring.

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Clouds Over the Capitol

TRIPS Waiver, MCIT, HR3.  If you are not familiar with these policy developments, you probably should be.

The United States medtech and biotech industries make a tremendous impact on people’s lives.   When policy makers and Federal Agencies work together, the impact is made even greater.  However, some policy decisions can have the opposite effect.

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Opinion: Now is absolutely not the time to be complacent

In the pandemic’s 17th month, we live in a world of vivid contrast between early-vaccinating countries that appear to be approaching an end to their epidemic and those falling rapidly into the abyss. Brazil and India are suffering escalating COVID caseloads exhausting health care resources. The long haul with the virus in the US and the current situation in Brazil and India have clearly underscored the importance of a strong, coordinated, and sustained public health response.

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