{"id":439286,"date":"2020-08-10T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/covid-19-roundup-curevac-beefs-up-its-unicorn-ipo-dreams-as-billionaire-owner-takes-this-covid-19-mrna-player-on-a-forced-march-to-nasdaq-kodaks.php"},"modified":"2020-08-10T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T21:24:37","slug":"covid-19-roundup-curevac-beefs-up-its-unicorn-ipo-dreams-as-billionaire-owner-takes-this-covid-19-mrna-player-on-a-forced-march-to-nasdaq-kodaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/covid-19-roundup-curevac-beefs-up-its-unicorn-ipo-dreams-as-billionaire-owner-takes-this-covid-19-mrna-player-on-a-forced-march-to-nasdaq-kodaks.php","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 roundup: CureVac beefs up its unicorn IPO dreams as billionaire owner takes this Covid-19 mRNA player on a forced march to Nasdaq; Kodak&#8217;s&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Almost exactly 4 years ago, Seres Therapeutics $MCRB experienced one of those soul-crunching failures that can raise big questions about a biotechs future. Out front in their pursuit of a gut punch to C. difficile infection (CDI), the Phase II test was a flat failure, and investors wiped out a billion dollars of equity value that never returned in the years that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Seres, though, pressed ahead, changing out CEOs a year ago  bidding Merck vet Roger Pomerantz farewell from the C suite  and pushing through a Phase III, hoping that amping up the dosage would make the key difference. And this morning, they unveiled a claim that they had aced the Phase III and positioned themselves for a run at a landmark FDA OK.<\/p>\n<p> Unlock this story instantly and join 86,800+ biopharma pros reading Endpoints daily  and it's free.  <\/p>\n<p>        SUBSCRIBE        SIGN IN    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/endpts.com\/covid-19-roundup-kodaks-765m-deal-is-on-hold-until-allegations-are-cleared-us-government\/\" title=\"Covid-19 roundup: CureVac beefs up its unicorn IPO dreams as billionaire owner takes this Covid-19 mRNA player on a forced march to Nasdaq; Kodak's...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Covid-19 roundup: CureVac beefs up its unicorn IPO dreams as billionaire owner takes this Covid-19 mRNA player on a forced march to Nasdaq; Kodak's...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Almost exactly 4 years ago, Seres Therapeutics $MCRB experienced one of those soul-crunching failures that can raise big questions about a biotechs future.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/covid-19-roundup-curevac-beefs-up-its-unicorn-ipo-dreams-as-billionaire-owner-takes-this-covid-19-mrna-player-on-a-forced-march-to-nasdaq-kodaks.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cell-therapy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}