Santa Cruz, Calif. – A handful of billion-dollar deals in the rare disease space highlights the uptick in Big Pharma’s investment, but it’s still extremely low compared to the money flowing to more common indications. They’re rare, they’re confounding, and R&D for therapies to address them is painfully underfunded. Rare...

LONDON, UK – Poolbeg Pharma (AIM:POLB)(OTCQB:POLBF), a biopharmaceutical company focussed on the development and commercialisation of innovative medicines targeting diseases with a high unmet medical need, announces that it has entered into an exclusive 12-month option agreement with Silk Road Therapeutics Inc, for a nominal fee, to acquire a novel...

PARIS, France and BOSTON, Mass. — Ipsen (Euronext: IPN; ADR: IPSEY) and Skyhawk Therapeutics today announced the signing of an exclusive worldwide collaboration to discover and develop novel small molecules that modulate RNA for rare neurological diseases. The agreement includes an option pursuant to which Ipsen would acquire exclusive license...