Secure health data services firm Bowhead Health has won a startup pitch competition run jointly by the Xcelerate and Biopharm America conferences. Bioprocess Insider brought live commentary of the event at Biotech Week Boston. Presided over by seasoned journalist Mike Ward from the EBD Group, twelve participants – well, eleven as one didn’t show – pitched their startup healthcare focused companies in four-minute slots on stage at Biotech Week Boston. Last week’s event, a collaboration between Xconomy’s Xcelerate conference and…

Danish biopharma Lundbeck says it expects to launch the potential blockbuster migraine biologic eptinezumab early next year after agreeing to buy Alder BioPharmaceuticals. The cash deal, expected to close in Q4 2019, is worth $1.95 billion (€1.78 billion) and falls into Lundbeck’s “expand and invest growth strategy” announced by the Danish biopharma firm in February 2019, aimed at expnding its breadth in brain disease therapies and rebuilding its pipeline. Since then the firm acquired Abide Therapeutics, adding a serine hydrolases…