CSL is paying $355 million upfront for an antibody whose best evidence is a 26-patient interim readout. The deal prices claudin-1 biology, not proven data, across kidney and liver fibrosis.
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KRAS sat on the undruggable list for decades. Silexion's SIL204 is built to silence the mutation earlier in the cell, and the Phase 2/3 program is now moving into patients.
Praxis Precision Medicines bypassed non-selective sodium channel toxicity in SCN2A and SCN8A DEEs by targeting persistent current. Now the FDA is examining its pivotal trial.
BigHat Biosciences raised $75 million as BHB810, a CDH17 VHH-Fc ADC, entered a Phase 1/2 gastric cancer trial. The round tests whether wet-lab data can fix AI drug discovery's translation problem.