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Enrollment in Athersys stroke trial nears completion

Athersys (NASDAQ:ATHX) expects to complete enrollment by the end of the summer in a Phase 2 clinical trial of its MultiStem cell therapy in about 140 moderate to moderately-severe ischemic stroke patients, with data to...

Knight won’t rest til it bests Paladin

“It is entirely the goal of Knight Therapeutics (TSX:GUD) to duplicate the success of Paladin Labs,” says president and CEO, Jonathan Ross Goodman, who turned Paladin into a premier distributor of specialty drugs...

In conversation with Alistair Duncan

As a co-founder, president and CEO of closely held viDA Therapeutics, a tissue repair company, Alistair Duncan has developed an affinity for doing biotech startups. From 1998 to 2008, he was president and CEO of Chromos...

Transition moves into late-stage drug development

Transition Therapeutics (NASDAQ:TTHI; TSX:TTH) has added late-stage drug development to its operations with its acquisition from Perrigo plc (NYSE, TASE:PRGO) of neuropsychiatric drug candidate, ELND005. “We’re maybe a...

Alpha Cancer to test oncology game changer

Closely held Alpha Cancer Technologies, which is going public in a reverse takeover of Bradmer Pharmaceuticals (TSX-V:BMR-H), plans to begin testing patients with ovarian cancer this year with its drug candidate, ACT...