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6 August, 2026
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1. Intellia says it has found a key clue to its gene editing safety issues
2. Tarsus bets $450M on Alkeus’ Stargardt drug
3. Greg Verdine’s LifeMine raises $263M for safer immunosuppressant
4. Merck KGaA readies tariff refunds worth €40M for life science customers
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Sarepta pushes back Elevidys timeline; Emergent lays off 90 staffers
6. Revolution Medicines preps for pancreatic drug launch, boosting expected 2026 expenses
7. Braveheart lands $383M IPO to take Hengrui cardio drug into Phase 3
8. Let the orexin market begin: Takeda snags FDA approval for narcolepsy type 1 drug
9. Vedanta gets $60M to finish Phase 3 for C. diff microbiome therapy
10. FDA approves Moderna flu vaccine after spat with past agency leaders
11. Atossa Therapeutics founder to be selected as NIAID director — report
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Karen Weintraub
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If you're in Cambridge, MA, there's still time to join us later today at the first of potentially several in-person discussions about the rise of Chinese biotechs and how the US should respond. Stay tuned for details and more events.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Lei Lei Wu

In­tel­lia Ther­a­peu­tics saidit dis­cov­ered a com­mon link among the pa­tients who faced the high­est liv­er en­zyme el­e­va­tions af­ter re­ceiv­ing its CRISPR gene edit­ing treat­ment...

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Tarsus Pharmaceuticals CEO Bobby Azamian speaks at Endpoints' #JPM26 event (Brian Benton Photography)
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by Kyle LaHucik

To broad­en its oph­thal­mol­o­gy port­fo­lio, Tar­sus Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals is dish­ing out $450 mil­lion up­front to ac­quire Phase 3 biotech Alkeus Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, the com­pa­nies said Thurs­day morn­ing.

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by Lei Lei Wu

LifeM­ine Ther­a­peu­tics has hauled in $263 mil­lion across two ven­ture rounds as it seeks to test a po­ten­tial­ly safer, more con­ve­nient im­muno­sup­pres­sant in trans­plant pa­tients...

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