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		<title>Eisai Announces Positive Results of Phase III Trial for Perampanel in Epilepsy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that results of a Phase III study in epilepsy patients with refractory partial seizures demonstrate the clinical benefits of the novel investigational compound E2007 (generic name: perampanel). Discovered and developed by Eisai, perampanel is a first-in-class drug with a unique mechanism that selectively and non-competitively antagonizes AMPA-type glutamate receptors. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5082</link>
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		<title>Body clock &#8220;drugs&#8221; could ease psychiatric disorders and jet lag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have successfully used a drug to reset and restart the natural 24 hour body clock of mice in the lab. The ability to do this in a mammal opens up the possibility of dealing with a range of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5077</link>
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		<title>Kamada reaches rights agreement with Baxter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kamada will receive $20 million upfront for the exclusive commercial rights to its emphysema treatment. Kamada Ltd. today announced a definitive agreement with Baxter International Inc. ,  which will have exclusive commercial rights to Glassia (Alpha 1-Proteinase Inhibitor in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Glassia, which was approved by the FDA on July [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5086</link>
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		<title>Roche and Aileron Alliance to Develop Stapled Peptide Drugs for Multiple Therapeutic Areas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$ 1.1 B Agreement  beetwen Roche and Aileron Aileron Therapeutics and Roche  announced today that they have entered into a collaboration to discover, develop and commercialise a new class of drugs called Stapled Peptide Therapeutics. As part of this agreement, Roche will work with Aileron to develop drug candidates against up to five undisclosed targets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5068</link>
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		<title>Galapagos and University of Bristol enter drug discovery collaboration in chronic pain.Total contract value: €3.3 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG) and the University of Bristol today announced a new drug discovery collaboration aimed at developing treatments for chronic pain associated with diabetes (diabetic neuropathic pain). Galapagos&#8217; service division BioFocus will provide hit-to-lead and lead optimization services for a Wellcome Trust funded program at the University of Bristol. Total contract value for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5055</link>
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		<title>AVI BioPharma Closes New Contract With U.S. Government for Development of Therapeutic Candidates for Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AVI BioPharma Discloses New Contract With U.S. Government for Potential Funding of up to $291 Million to Advance Development of Therapeutic Candidates for Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses AVI BioPharma, a developer of RNA-based therapeutics, yesterday filed a current report on Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission providing the following disclosure: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5059</link>
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		<title>Watson and Itero Enter Worldwide License Agreement on Biologic Development Candidate  For Female Infertility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone (rFSH) Would Expand Watson&#8217;s Global Presence in Women&#8217;s Health Will Capitalize on Watson&#8217;s Eden Biodesign Biologics Capabilities Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI) today announced an exclusive, worldwide licensing agreement with Itero Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a venture-backed specialty biopharmaceutical company, to develop and commercialize Itero&#8217;s Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone (rFSH).  The product is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5053</link>
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		<title>Aricept long acting formulation benefits patients with advanced Alzheimer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study found that Alzheimer’s disease patients that used the new long-acting version of Aricept were more likely to maintain or improve brain function than those who continued using  the older formulation. Improvement benefited the most to people with more advanced Alzheimer’s. Comparison between the experimental  23-milligram tablet taken once daily with the immediate-release, 10-milligram [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5049</link>
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		<title>Calithera Biosciences Closes $40 Million in Series A Financing for the treatment of cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calithera Biosciences, a company developing novel oncology therapeutics, today announced the completion of a Series A financing totaling $40 million. The capital will be used to support the company&#8217;s pioneering efforts to develop activators of caspases, the proteases that promote apoptotic cell death, for the treatment of cancer and other proliferative diseases. &#8220;Promoting apoptosis in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5044</link>
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		<title>Infinity and Intellikine sign $488M pact on Intellikine&#8217;s PI3K portfolio in cancer and inflammatory diseases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Intellikine, Inc., a leader in the development of small molecule drugs targeting the PI3K/mTOR pathway, today announced an agreement under which Infinity obtained global development and commercialization rights to Intellikine&#8217;s portfolio of inhibitors of the delta and gamma isoforms of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K). Among these inhibitors is INK1197, an orally available dual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerentech.com/?p=5039</link>
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