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Good morning. A reminder that if you’re ever feeling down about a mistake you made, there is always a way to turn it around — like how this delivery robot company has turned the issue of its robot crashing into my local bus stop into a marketing opportunity.
The need-to-know this morning
Revolution Medicines raised $2 billion in concurrent stock and debt offerings. The mammoth financings — double what the company intended to raise — come just days after daraxonrasib, its experimental treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, was shown to double the median overall survival of patients in a Phase 3 clinical trial.
Bain Capital again creates a startup with older pharma drugs
After Bain Capital last summer said it licensed five immunology drugs from Bristol Myers Squibb, it’s now unveiling the company to take those treatments forward: a startup called Beeline Medicines.Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…