The company’s lead candidate, AP1189, has shown promise in a mid-stage rheumatoid arthritis study, sparking plans for an imminent strategic business collaboration. 

Pfizer alleges its associate director of statistics transferred 12,000 files from her company laptop ahead of move to Xencor. Company seeks a temporary restraining order to prevent her from disclosing confidential information, including information on Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and monoclonal antibodies for treatment of cancer.

Moderna co-founder Robert Langer shared tips to drive innovation at a recent summit, while narrating a fascinating tale of tenacity during the development of angiogenesis inhibitors with Judah Folkman. If an idea is important, it’s sure to be criticized, said the man who has over 1,000 patents issued or pending worldwide.

French pharma makes $180m equity investment in Owkin under collaboration targeting four cancer types. Pyramid gets global license to MPS1 precision cancer candidate from Voronoi.