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Sunday 5 April 2026

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Ignota's co-founder and chief executive, Sam Windsor

Ignota vacuums up Kronos Bio's drug programmes

Ignota Labs of the UK has acquired all of the clinical-stage assets in Kronos Bio's pipeline, after the US firm ceased operations earlier this year.

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Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi

Regulatory T-cell scientist trio wins Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to three scientists for their work on regulatory T-cells, spawning hundreds of trials of new therapies.

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Oculis takes second eye disease therapy into pivotal trials

Oculis is poised to start registration trials for privosegtor, its drug candidate for neuro-ophthalmic diseases, in the wake of positive phase 2 data.

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Dr Ken Macnamara, Trogenix's chief executive

UK's Trogenix raises £70m for cancer immunotherapy platform

Edinburgh-based Trogenix has raised £70m to fund clinical trials of its triple-acting immunotherapies for brain and colorectal cancers.

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Delayed TNBC readout for Datroway delivers survival benefit

Delayed TNBC readout for Datroway delivers survival benefit

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo's Datroway comes good in the delayed TROPION-Breast02 trial as a frontline triple-negative breast cancer treatment.

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Cidara chief executive Jeffrey Stein

Cidara gets $339m BARDA award for flu prophylactic

Cidara is celebrating a major injection of funding from the US government for its experimental one-shot, universal flu prophylactic CD388.