Coronavirus cancellations

Conventions are notorious hotbeds for disease transmission, with germy handshakes and standing-room-only talks breeding contagion. It's no wonder at least two biotech conferences have been cancelled in the next week, as a precaution against promulgating a coronavirus outbreak. 

The ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress, meant to run March 2-4 in Paris, was canceled — as was the International Symposium on Amyloidosis in Spain.

Alnylam, for what it's worth, announced via Twitter that it'd be holding off on presenting its own amyloidosis data until a more opportune (read: virus-free) time.

Still scheduled for this weekend in Boston: CROI.