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Dyne Therapeutics Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering

WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: DYN), a muscle disease company focused on advancing innovative life-transforming therapeutics for patients with genetically driven diseases, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 14,089,314 shares of its common stock at an initial public offering price of $19.00 per share, including 1,837,736 additional shares of common stock issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares. All of the shares in the offering were sold by Dyne. The gross proceeds of the offering, before deducting the underwriting discount and commissions and other offering expenses payable by Dyne, were approximately $268 million.

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Positive pivotal data for Libtayo® (cemiplimab) monotherapy in locally advanced basal cell carcinoma featured as a late-breaking presentation at…

Positive pivotal data for Libtayo® (cemiplimab) monotherapy in locally advanced basal cell carcinoma featured as a late-breaking presentation at ESMO

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Roche’s phase III EMPACTA study showed Actemra/RoActemra reduced the likelihood of needing mechanical ventilation in hospitalised patients with…

Basel, 18 September 2020 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the phase III EMPACTA study met its primary endpoint, showing that patients with COVID-19 associated pneumonia who received Actemra®/RoActemra® (tocilizumab) plus standard of care were 44% less likely to progress to mechanical ventilation or death compared to patients who received placebo plus standard of care (log-rank p-value = 0.0348; HR [95% CI] = 0.56 [0.32, 0.97]). The cumulative proportion of patients who progressed to mechanical ventilation or death by day 28 was 12.2% in the Actemra/RoActemra arm versus 19.3% in the placebo arm. The EMPACTA study did not identify any new safety signals for Actemra/RoActemra. “The EMPACTA trial demonstrated that Actemra/RoActemra can reduce the need for mechanical ventilation in patients with COVID-19 associated pneumonia, an important outcome in this serious disease,” said Levi Garraway, M.D., Ph.D., Roche’s Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Product Development. “We plan to share this important data with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other health authorities around the world.” The study is the first global, phase III COVID-19 clinical trial to primarily enrol patient populations that are often underrepresented in clinical studies and have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 85% of the 389 patients were from minority racial and ethnic groups. The majority of patients were Hispanic, with significant representation of Native American and Black populations. The trial was conducted in the United States, South Africa, Kenya, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. “We have been striving to improve inclusion and diversity in our trials,” said Jamie Freedman, M.D., Ph.D., Head of U.S. Medical Affairs. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw how high the stakes were for many communities of colour and made diversity the centerpiece of this trial.” The EMPACTA trial builds on Roche’s work in Advancing Inclusive Research, a cross-organisational US initiative to help address barriers in clinical research for underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

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Checkpoint Therapeutics Announces $20.0 Million Bought Deal Offering

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Checkpoint Therapeutics, Inc. (“Checkpoint” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CKPT), a clinical-stage immunotherapy and targeted oncology company, today announced that it has entered into an underwriting agreement with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC under which the underwriter has agreed to purchase on a firm commitment basis 7,142,857 shares of common stock of the Company, at a price to the public of $2.80 per share, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about September 22, 2020, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

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Organogenesis Holdings Inc. Updates Date and Time of Presentation at the Oppenheimer Fall Healthcare Life Sciences & MedTech Summit

CANTON, Mass., Sept. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Organogenesis Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: ORGO), a leading regenerative medicine company focused on the development, manufacture, and commercialization of product solutions for the Advanced Wound Care and Surgical and Sports Medicine markets, today announced that the date and time of its presentation at the Oppenheimer Fall Healthcare Life Sciences & MedTech Summit has been updated.

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Organogenesis Holdings Inc. Updates Date and Time of Presentation at the Oppenheimer Fall Healthcare Life Sciences & MedTech Summit