There is a pill in the works that could treat a common and often severe set of inflammatory bowel diseases.
The promising therapy and many more for a host of troubling and deadly diseases are now much more likely to make it to market because of a big bet by the majority owner of the Baltimore Ravens, Steve Bisciotti.
The Stephen and Renee Bisciotti Foundation has put up $100 million for a new Baltimore-based nonprofit called Blackbird that will help shepherd five to 10 promising therapies a year from local university labs into local startup companies...
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