Cidara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CDTX) is developing what may be the first antifungal to be approved in 15 years for both the treatment and prevention of invasive fungal disease.

When Karen Jackson founded Sisters Network INC. in 1994, a national African American breast cancer survivorship organization, she was optimistic to the point of wearing rose-colored glasses about the healthcare industry. She believed that if someone was sick then there would be someone to help.Your Content Goes Here

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a physician, surgeon, researcher, philanthropist, and owner of the LA Times. From 1997–2010, he served as Founder, Chairman and CEO of American Pharmaceutical Partners (APP) and Abraxis BioScience, where he developed the drug Abraxane, which received FDA approval for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, lung cancer, and advanced pancreatic cancer. In 2008, he sold APP to Fresenius for approximately $4.6 billion. Two years later, he sold Abraxis to Celgene for approximately $3.8 billion.

Efficacy, safety, and convenience are hard-to-achieve attributes of cancer therapies, despite the best marketing engines in biopharma. Acepodia—a clinical-stage biotech focused on developing novel, targeted, allogeneic-cell based immunotherapies to treat cancers—has the gall to add affordable to the list of product attributes it’s striving for.

The scientist whose unorthodox approach helped former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid beat pancreatic cancer is turning his attention toward fighting coronavirus. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who said his company ImmunityBio is working with the Department of Health and Human Services on a coronavirus vaccine, said the same treatment that worked on Reid’s cancer could be used to fight infectious diseases.

With deep roots in diabetes, this small company is pushing forward with a trial against a rare diosease known as congenital hyperinsulinism.