Novartis has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Illinois-based clinical stage gene therapy company AveXis, Inc. for $218 per share or a total of $8.7 billion in cash. AveXis has several clinical studies in progress for the treatment of SMA, an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by a defect in a […]

Amgen today announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art next-generation biomanufacturing plant at its campus in West Greenwich, R.I. The new plant, the first of its kind in the U.S., will employ Amgen’s proven next-generation biomanufacturing capabilities and manufacture products for the U.S. and global markets. A next-generation biomanufacturing plant incorporates multiple innovative technologies into […]

Flagship Pioneering has unveiled Foghorn Therapeutics, a unique life science innovation enterprise that uses its proprietary Gene Traffic Control product platform to discover and develop drugs based on novel insights into the chromatin regulatory system which directs gene expression in cells. Flagship Pioneering developed and launched Foghorn Therapeutics through its innovation foundry, Flagship VentureLabs, and […]

Researchers have identified a new ALS gene called KIF5A. This important gene discovery, funded by The ALS Association through Ice Bucket Challenge donations, will help researchers understand ALS disease pathways and represents a potential new ALS therapeutic target. This was a large collaborative effort involving over 250 researchers, led by John Landers, Ph.D., Professor of […]