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1. Ying Huang's post-Legend life takes shape at K2, with $250M goal to license Asia assets
2. Epicrispr secures $90M after early data on epigenetic FSHD treatment
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Lilly paid $2B upfront for vaccine biotechs; Infinimmune raises $75M
4. Vaderis gets $152M to run Phase 3 of rare bleeding disorder treatment
5. Manufacturing problems cited in FDA rejection of ITM's radiopharma drug
6. Trump calls for spacing out MMR vaccine into three shots, suggests it causes autism
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Ying Huang takes the helm at K2, where he plans to raise $250 million to go shopping for drug candidates in Asia. Kyle LaHucik talks with the former Legend CEO as he lays out his new vision.

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Karen Weintraub
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Ying Huang at the Financial Times\' Global Pharma and Biotech Summit in 2025 (courtesy Financial Times)
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by Kyle LaHucik

Ying Huang has spent the past sev­en years build­ing up one of the lead­ing can­cer cell ther­a­py play­ers.

Now, just weeks af­ter an­nounc­ing his de­par­ture...

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by Lei Lei Wu

Epi­crispr Biotech­nolo­gies has raised $90 mil­lion for its Se­ries C round af­ter shar­ing promis­ing ear­ly da­ta around a po­ten­tial new way to treat a rare...

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News Briefing: Quick hits from the biopharma web
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by ENDPOINTS

Plus news about Tenax Ther­a­peu­tics, Au­re­ka Biotech­nolo­gies, ATyr Phar­ma, Prana Ther­a­pies and Mereo Bio­Phar­ma.

💸 Lil­ly’s vac­cine ac­qui­si­tions:In May, Eli Lil­ly said it would...

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Azmi Nabulsi, Vaderis Therapeutics CEO
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by Lei Lei Wu

Vaderis Ther­a­peu­tics’ bet that a type of treat­ment de­vel­oped for can­cers could work for a rare blood dis­or­der is pay­ing off.

The 13-per­son Swiss start­up...

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by Lei Lei Wu

The FDA re­ject­ed ITM Iso­tope Tech­nolo­gies Mu­nich’s ra­dio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal agent for neu­roen­docrine tu­mors be­cause of man­u­fac­tur­ing is­sues, de­lay­ing a po­ten­tial chal­lenger to No­var­tis’ ap­proved drug Lu­tathera...

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by Max Bayer

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump fur­ther as­sert­ed con­trol over the na­tion’s child­hood vac­cine sched­ule, call­ing for the measles, mumps and rubel­la (MMR) vac­cine to split in­to three...