Milestone Payments Earned by Orexigen Total $100 Million as Contrave® (naltrexone HCI and bupropion HCI extended release) is Shipped to Wholesalers in Preparation for Commercial Launch

October 15, 2014

Orexigen receives $70 million milestone payment from Takeda Pharmaceuticals for preparation for the commercial launch of Contrave®. The company received $30 million from Takeda in September upon FDA approval.
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Atara Biotherapeutics Announces Pricing of Its Initial Public Offering

October 15, 2014

Atara Biotherapeutics announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of common stock at $11.00 per share. Shares begin trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “ATRA” on October 16, 2014.
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Dicerna Presents Preclinical Data for Investigational RNAi Therapeutic DCR-PH1 in Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 (PH1) at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society

October 14, 2014

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals presented data from its RNAi Therapeutic DCR-PH1, the company’s investigational treatment for PH1, a rare liver disorder, at the Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS).
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