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Lilly focuses on tau with AC Immune Alzheimer's R&D tie-up

Eli Lilly has paid $81m to develop drugs targeting aggregation of tau proteins associated with Alzheimer’s with Swiss biotech AC Immune, as focus shifts away from therapies targeting clumps

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CarThera raises €9m to tackle the blood-brain barrier

French company CarThera has raised €9 million in its Series B funding round to help it develop ultrasound-based medical devices to treat brain disorders and overcome the challenges of the b

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WuXi AppTec eyes acquisitions after $1bn Hong Kong IPO

Chinese biotech WuXi AppTec has completed its listing on Hong Kong’s HKEX, raising $967m just months after making its debut on the Shanghai exchange.

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Neurocrine slumps as Tourette's drug fails clinical trial

Shares in Neurocrine Biosciences slumped by as much as a fifth after a much-anticipated trial in Tourette’s syndrome missed the mark.

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Axovant axes neuroscience drug, focuses on gene therapies

Swiss biotech Axovant started the year badly, dropping its Alzheimer’s drug intepirdine after it failed in a trial, and it has ended with another flop from a neuroscience drug, nelotanserin

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