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AUGUST 19, 2024

The company — or, at least, what existed at its founding in 2013 — hoped to pull data from images of healthy and diseased cells, and use that data to identify drugs gathering dust on pharmaceutical company shelves that could be repurposed as rare disease treatments.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

billion was raised by 183 new VC funds, which was the lowest fundraising total for first-timers since 2013, according to Pitchbook. First-time funds have been difficult to raise during the biotech downturn. Last year, around $11.6 Around $25.6 billion had been raised by 556 first-time funds in 2022.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

So far this year, there have been 1,384 VC deals struck in the field, the lowest figure since 2013. New data from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association show that both the number of deals and the amount of money that’s being invested in life science companies are down significantly.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

It wasn’t until January 2013 that the first paper showing the enzyme would work in cells, from Feng Zhang, was published, also in Science. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, now Nobelists , published their first paper announcing a new enzyme for editing DNA in Science in June 2012. It was called CRISPR-Cas9.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Editas Medicine, CRISPR Therapeutics, and Intellia Therapeutics were all started in the 2013-2014 time frame with the same goal of turning the nascent CRISPR gene-editing technology into medicines.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

AbbVie announced Tuesday that CEO Richard Gonzalez, who has managed the company’s ascent since it was spun off from the device maker Abbott Laboratories in 2013, will step down in July.

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MARCH 28, 2024

From 2013 to 2022, pharmaceutical and device companies made more than 85 million payments totaling $12.1 The financial ties between drug and device makers and some physicians remains pervasive, despite concerns such relationships may influence medical practice, according to a new analysis of payments made over a recent 10-year span.

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MAY 19, 2023

Founded in 2013, Pear was the most prominent company developing prescription digital therapeutics, or Food and Drug Administration-cleared software applications ordered by doctors to treat health conditions. Click Therapeutics, Welt Corp, Harvest Bio, and Nox Health Group each acquired bits of the company for $6.05

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Over the past decade, the number of research misconduct allegations reported to the National Institutes of Health has more than doubled, climbing from 74 in 2013 to 169 in 2022. And it’s hardly alone. And scientific sleuths are finding plenty of other problems that don’t always qualify as outright misconduct.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In 2013, I sat down at my computer and secured the URL t1international.com. I wanted a place where I could collect and share everything I was learning about the global insulin price crisis. I was only 25 years old, and I had already been living with type 1 diabetes for more than two decades.

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APRIL 7, 2024

In 2013, it took an average of 9.9 In some cases, failure to show clinical benefit didn’t stop the FDA from converting accelerated approvals into full approvals, and the authors note the agency’s conversion decisions have increasingly been based on less stringent evidence of a drug’s benefits.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

He has been part of the C-suite at Sage Therapeutics since 2013. Longtime Sage Therapeutics executive Jeff Jonas is leaving the biotech company to launch a biotech incubator with global investment giant CBC Group. Sage announced this week that Jonas would leave the company to join a private equity firm. billion deal with Biogen.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

This brings the total number of people who have accessed the service since it launched in 2013 to almost 1.25m. The pharmacy common ailments service in Wales saw 420,951 patients in the last 12 months, new figures from the Welsh Government have revealed.

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million from 2013 to 2019, presumably due to the company payments, according to the study, which was published in JAMA Health Forum. Physicians who did not accept payments prescribed Avastin 46% of the time, nearly twice as often as those who accepted payments. As a result, Medicare shelled out an estimated $642.8

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MAY 7, 2024

The company, which last month pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, admitted that, from April 2012 through May 2013, some of its sales representatives marketed its medicine, also known as oxymorphone, to doctors by touting the drug as abuse deterrent, as well as resistant to tampering and crushing.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

For example, the share of Mexican Americans taking insulin who achieved good blood-sugar control sharply dropped to 10% during the period of 2013 to 2020 from 25% during 1988 to 1994, researchers reported Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. Read the rest…

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JULY 7, 2025

It’s not clear why there was a delay but better late than never.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Case in point: Under the seemingly benign title, “Clinical Benefit and Regulatory Outcomes of Cancer Drugs Receiving Accelerated Approval,” an article published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association claims that among “cancer drugs granted accelerated approval from 2013 to 2017, 41% (19/46) did not improve (..)

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MARCH 12, 2025

The  Critical Medicines Act has been proposed at a time when the EC has become increasingly concerned about shortages, which have been rising since 2013 and peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as variable access to drugs between EU member states leading to accusations that some are stockpiling to the detriment of others.

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MAY 1, 2023

San Francisco-based Carbon said that Elevance — formerly known as Anthem, which operates the Anthem Blue Cross plan in California — had refused to increase its payment rate in the state beyond 2013 levels, which was “no longer tenable as a livable wage.” ” Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JANUARY 8, 2024

The two men worked together from 2013 until 2022, when Jonas left to start a biotech incubator with funding from investment giant CBC Group. The VC firm has hired Jeff Jonas, Sage’s former chief executive, and Al Robichaud, Sage’s former chief scientific officer, as partners, the team told STAT exclusively.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

A federal law that went into effect in 2013 requires the FDA to identify ingredients needed to satisfy an unmet “clinical need” and to include those on  a list for use by large compounding pharmacies.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Central Texas’ Scott and White was absorbed into Baylor in 2013. Wisconsin’s Marshfield Clinic agreed to merge with Duluth-based Essentia Health in October 2022 after a lengthy string of operating losses, though the merger fell apart recently.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

When it hit the market in 2013, the drug revolutionized the treatment of these cancers and represented a major step forward from chemotherapy and some other drugs at the time. NEW ORLEANS – One of the best therapies for some types of lymphoma and leukemia has been a drug called ibrutinib, made by AbbVie.

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MARCH 9, 2023

In the spring of 2013, I had just visited a lab focused on gene and cell therapies at Baylor College of Medicine. Bluebird Bio , which would soon launch a successful IPO , had licensed its technology from the same lab and was about to announce a major collaboration with Celgene and Baylor.

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APRIL 5, 2023

are charged with knowingly selling defective lead testing machines between 2013 and 2017 that generated inaccurate results for tens of thousands of children across the country and for clients of at least one international relief organization, federal prosecutors said. Three former executives at Magellan Diagnostics Inc.

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MAY 15, 2023

Hospitals ran short of essential treatment medications and were unable to source those drugs from manufacturers or from the outsourcing facilities that had been authorized by Congress in 2013 to “fill the gap” in such situations.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Indeed, on July 1, drugmakers raised the wholesale price on over 123 drugs in what’s the largest number of mid-year price hikes since 2013, according to data from drug pricing nonprofit 46brooklyn and the Elsevier Gold Standard Drug Database. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JUNE 3, 2025

Changes to the NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 laid before Parliament on Monday will mean no new applications for online pharmacies can be accepted or permitted from around […] The post Halt to new distance selling pharmacies appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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JUNE 18, 2024

based company was founded in 2013 and has raised $60 million to date. Perekupka said Freespira hopes to enroll 2,500 people in its treatment this year — twice last year’s sales — and to double its patients again in 2025 and 2026. The Kirkland, Wash.-based

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AUGUST 3, 2023

In his 2013 State of the Union address, he laid out a bold vision to fund and accelerate brain research: “If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

In 2013, Kevan Shokat, a biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, discovered a key chemical vulnerability in a specific subset of mutant oncogenic KRAS that made it possible to design small molecules that would bind to the protein. ” In the last few years, that attitude has sharply turned around.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In August 2013, the FDA made news when it issued cybersecurity guidance for medical devices.

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JUNE 20, 2023

A 2013 trial of the first iteration of Cologuard, known as DeeP-C, showed the test is 92% sensitive and 87% specific. The new Cologuard test correctly detected cancer 94% of the time, and it correctly returned a negative result 91% of the time, test characteristics known as sensitivity and specificity, respectively.

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MAY 7, 2025

The Patent Box tax regime, introduced in the UK in 2013, has been hailed as a success in fostering a culture of R&D and entrepreneurship. As the pharmaceutical industry continues to drive groundbreaking research and development, a lesser-known tax incentive has emerged as a key catalyst for innovation.

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MAY 1, 2024

In late 2013, the FDA had conditionally approved the biopsies as a part of an early feasibility study, which it limited to six patients at the medical center who were getting DBS for treatment-resistant depression.

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MARCH 29, 2024

From 2013 to 2022, pharmaceutical and device companies made more than 85 million payments totaling $12.1 Financial ties between drug and device makers and some physicians remain pervasive, despite concerns such relationships may influence medical practice , STAT writes, citing a new analysis of payments made over a recent 10-year span.

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