Intersect ENT (NSDQ:XENT) shares plunged today after the company said it failed to meet the primary endpoint in a study of its Ascend investigational drug-coated sinus balloon. The 70-person, randomized, double-blind trial was designed to compared treatment with Intersect ENT’s DCB when randomized against an uncoated balloon control. The study missed the primary endpoint, frontal sinus […]
Frequency Therapeutics prices $84m IPO
Frequency Therapeutics said yesterday that it priced its initial public offering at roughly $84 million. The 6-million-share offering priced at $14 per share and includes a 30-day underwriters option on another 900,000 shares that’s worth $12.6 million, the Woburn, Mass.-based company said. Frequency said it expected to begin trading the shares on the NASDAQ exchange […]
Frequency Therapeutics registers $100m IPO
Frequency Therapeutics has registered an initial public offering of common stock worth $100 million. Woburn, Mass.-based Frequency Therapeutics did not disclose the number of shares it seeks to sell or the price range of the offered units. The company applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission have its common stock listed on The Nasdaq Global […]
FDA approves delivery system for Intersect ENT’s Propel implant
Intersect ENT (NSDQ:XENT) said today that it won FDA approval for a new delivery system for its Propel Mini steroid-eluting sinus implant. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company said the straight delivery system is designed to place the mometasone furoate-eluting Propel Mini in the ethmoid sinus behind the nasal bridge. The SDS is slated to hit […]
Frequency Therapeutics inks $625m deal with Astellas, adds $62m Series C
Frequency Therapeutics said today that it raised a $62.0 million Series C round for the hearing loss drug it’s developing and inked a development and overseas distribution deal with Astellas Pharma that’s worth $625 million. Woburn, Mass.-based Frequency drew a $42 million Series B early this year; including the financing announced today, a $32 million […]
Audion touts Ph1 results for hearing loss drug
Audion Therapeutics touted positive results yesterday from a Phase I trial of the company’s hearing loss drug. In 15 people with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Audion tested the safety and tolerability of its LY3056480 mediated Notch inhibitor. The drug is designed to regenerate the inner ear sensory hair cells that are lost over […]
Decibel, Cocoon tackle drug delivery to the inner ear using silk
Decibel Therapeutics and Cocoon Biotech announced yesterday that the two companies plan to work together to research drug formulations optimized for transtympanic delivery to the ear. The collaboration will make use of Cocoon’s silk fibroin platform and Decibel will have an option to exclusively license the technology on a program-by-program basis. Cocoon is slated to […]
Frequency Therapeutics raises $42m for hearing regeneration drug
Frequency Therapeutics said today that it closed a $42 million Series B round to support the clinical development of its hearing regeneration drug, FX-322. The company is slated to publish top-line data from an ongoing Phase I/II study of FX-322 in the first half of the year. The Series B round was led by Taiwania […]
Intersect ENT launches trial of drug-coated sinus balloon
Intersect ENT (NSDQ:XENT) said today that it enrolled the first patient in a trial of its Ascend drug-coated sinus balloon. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company’s device is designed to deliver mometasone furoate directly to a person’s sinuses at the time of dilation. The 70-person study is slated to explore whether the Ascend device can reduce inflammation […]
Intersect ENT touts pooled analysis of steroid-releasing sinus implants
Intersect ENT (NSDQ:XENT) last week touted the publication of a pooled analysis of the company’s Propel Contour and Propel Mini steroid-eluting sinus implants. The company’s devices are designed to prop open the sinus ostia following endoscopic sinus surgery. As the implant dissolves, medicine is delivered directly to the sinus lining. The analysis, published in the International Forum […]
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