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1. Questions linger over Biogen's tau drug for Alzheimer's, as low dose reports better results
2. Chai Discovery gets $400M, tripling valuation from seven months ago
3. Draig nets $65M to advance depression drug aimed at rebuilding synapses
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Erasca's $550M offering; Summit sells an antibiotic
5. Exclusive: Genetic medicine startup launches to speed programs that stalled at Editas, Biogen
6. AstraZeneca to take rights to Dizal's lung cancer pill for $600M upfront
7. In latest deal, Innovent seeds Spero's future beyond GSK-owned antibiotic
8. After $4.7B sale to Novo Nordisk, former Akero team announces new I&I company with China drug
9. Cayman court says Apple Tree general partner should lose control of venture fund 
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Alex Hoffman
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Biogen's track record with Alzheimer's can be best described as wildly uneven, and the big biotech is facing another hurdle in the disease with diranersen. The tau-targeting drug fared better with patients on the low dose than on the high dose, perplexing everyone involved. Ryan Cross has more on the data that were released today at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London.

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Alex Hoffman
Copy Chief and News Editor, Endpoints News
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by Ryan Cross

LON­DON— Bio­gen's at­tempt to treat Alzheimer's by go­ing af­ter a pro­tein that forms tox­ic tan­gles in the brain showed some of the strongest proof...

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Chai Discovery co-founders Matthew McPartlon (L) and Joshua Meier at last year's Endpoints 11 event (Mike Last for Endpoints News)
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by Kyle LaHucik

Chai Dis­cov­ery, one of the hottest star­tups in the AI-gen­er­at­ed drug dis­cov­ery land­scape, has cor­ralled $400 mil­lion in a Se­ries C that triples its pa­per...

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Manufacturing Day 2026
A year into the tariff era, the biopharma industry has stopped bracing for impact — however manufacturing and supply chain leaders are still rewriting their plans on the fly. We’re bringing together the experts tracking what R&D logistics looks like today. Join us — find out what’s next.
Ivana Magovčević-Liebisch, Draig Therapeutics CEO
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by Ayisha Sharma

Draig Ther­a­peu­tics has se­cured$65 mil­lion in an over­sub­scribed Se­ries B raise to ad­vance a pipeline of neu­ropsy­chi­a­try drugs, in­clud­ing its lead de­pres­sion pro­gram de­signed...

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News Briefing: Quick hits from the biopharma web
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by ENDPOINTS

Plus, news about sub­cu­ta­neous Leqem­bi, WuXi AppTec and Q32 Bio.

📊 Eras­ca tar­gets $550M for KRAS drugs: The biotech's pub­lic of­fer­ingcame af­ter it...

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by Lei Lei Wu

Ly­o­ra Ther­a­peu­tics will try to re­vive sev­er­al ear­ly-stage ge­net­ic eye dis­ease pro­grams pre­vi­ous­ly held by Ed­i­tas Med­i­cine and Bio­gen.

The biotech was co-found­ed by Luk...

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