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1. ARCH and Population Health return to China for new startup, targeting sleep disorders
2. UniQure sinks as Huntington's gene therapy appears to show waning benefit over time
3. Genentech AI alumni launch health startup Ortet with $500M
4. Spark co-founder Steven Altschuler is back with an immune-resetting biotech
5. Exclusive: SK pharmteco unveils $200M+ investment to expand CDMO capabilities
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9. Exclusive: Swedish biotech AnaCardio raises $70.9M for 'safer' heart drug
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Karen Weintraub
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A new biotech called Somnivera says it will target the sleep problems faced by more than 1 billion adults, though it declined to provide specifics on its China asset. Kyle LaHucik reports on the startup from ARCH Venture Partners and Population Health Partners, the team behind last year’s $10 billion Metsera sale.

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Karen Weintraub
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Whit Bernard, managing partner at Population Health Partners
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by Kyle LaHucik

Af­ter last year's suc­cess­ful $10 bil­lion sale of Met­sera, and then the launch of an in­flam­ma­to­ry dis­ease biotechear­li­er this year, ARCH Ven­ture Part­ners...

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by Max Gelman

UniQure's shares QURE were rocked Tues­day morn­ing af­ter the com­pa­ny re­vealed its ex­per­i­men­tal Hunt­ing­ton’s dis­ease gene ther­a­py may have less ben­e­fit than orig­i­nal­ly thought.

In...

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Kyunghyun Cho speaking at Endpoints AI Day 2024 (Endpoints News photo)
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by Andrew Dunn

A trio of for­mer AI sci­en­tists and en­gi­neers at Roche's Genen­tech has start­ed a com­pa­ny called Or­tet, with vi­sions of chang­ing the health­care sys­tem with...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Drug­mak­ers and in­vestors have ramped up their spend­ing and R&D at­ten­tion on au­toim­mune dis­eases in re­cent years, with a pro­lif­er­a­tion of bis­pe­cif­ic T cell en­gagers...

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by Ayisha Sharma

SK pharmte­co plans to spend at least $200 mil­lion on build­ing out its de­vel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing in­fra­struc­ture over the next five years, which is ex­pect­ed...

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