STAT October 3, 2023
Damian Garde

Good morning, everyone. Damian here. Yesterday’s Nobel wins for Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman called to mind the humble beginnings of mRNA research — and the fact that Karikó’s scientific career nearly ended before their key discovery, as she explained back in 2020.

The need-to-know this morning
• Eli Lilly said it would acquire Point Biopharma in an all-cash deal valued at $1.4 billion.
• Sanofi is paying $175 million to license Johnson & Johnson’s late-stage vaccine for E. coli.
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals expanded its partnership with Intellia Therapeutics to develop two more CRISPR-based medicines.
• ALX Oncology said its experimental immunotherapy improved the number of tumors that responded, or shrank, when added to other cancer medicines in gastric cancer. The drug targets CD47,...

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