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1. PhRMA picks Eric Cantor as next chief
2. Beam sues YolTech and Serapha Bio for allegedly stealing its gene editing tech
3. BioNTech to close three sites in Germany after failing to secure a sale 
4. Updated: UniQure sinks as Huntington's gene therapy appears to show waning benefit over time
5. After GLP-1s, biosimilars are the new frontier in direct-to-employer plans
6. Exclusive: SK pharmteco unveils $200M+ investment to expand CDMO capabilities
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Max Bayer
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Is there still room for a traditional Republican to make inroads on Capitol Hill? PhRMA is banking on it, hiring former GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor as its next president and CEO in a post-Trump world. Well, not technically post-Trump yet. But with Democrats expected to take at least one chamber of Congress in the November midterms, certainly the end of his specific brand of MAGA rule in Washington.

A quick victory lap: We reported that Cantor was among those being considered for the job more than a month ago. Now, it's official.

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Max Bayer
Senior Reporter, Endpoints News
Eric Cantor, new PhRMA CEO (Mattie Neretin/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images)
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by Max Bayer

For­mer House Ma­jor­i­ty Leader Er­ic Can­tor has been cho­sen as PhRMA’s next pres­i­dent and CEO, the group said Tues­day. The an­nounce­ment came short­ly af­ter End­points...

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by Ryan Cross

Beam Ther­a­peu­tics, a Cam­bridge, MA, com­pa­ny de­vel­op­ing CRISPR base edit­ing ther­a­pies, has sued two Chi­nese sci­en­tists and two biotech com­pa­nies where they work for al­leged­ly...

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by Anna Brown

Af­ter months of hunt­ing for po­ten­tial buy­ers of mul­ti­ple man­u­fac­tur­ing sites in Ger­many, BioN­Tech said it will close these fa­cil­i­ties af­ter be­ing un­able to lock...

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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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by Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, Shelby Livingston

Fre­se­nius Kabi will sell biosim­i­lars di­rect­ly to em­ploy­ers.

To ac­com­plish that, the drug­mak­er is work­ing with Ever­sana-owned Waltz Health, which runs a mar­ket­placethat helps...

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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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