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Best in Biotech 26 Sep 2023

Eight anti-aging startups on a mission to extend lives

The longevity biotech industry revolves around the goal of increasing the period of life that a person spends in good health. There has been a rapidly expanding effort in recent years to develop drugs that target aging as a root cause of disease, and this type of biotechnology has come to be a very popular […]

September 26, 2023 - 10 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

News and Trends 26 Jul 2023

Diabetes drug could promote healthy aging

A research team from the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has provided genetic evidence that metformin might promote healthy aging using a cohort study of more than 300,000 participants of European descent (UK Biobank). The proof-of-concept work supports further clinical research into the drug repositioning […]

July 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Jul 2023

Calliditas reveals ‘encouraging results’ from head and neck cancer trial

Calliditas Therapeutics AB has announced interim data from its proof-of-concept phase 2 trial in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) with its lead NOX 1 and 4 inhibitor product candidate, setanaxib. The analysis reflects encouraging early clinical progression-free survival (PFS) results and is supportive of the presumed anti fibrotic mode […]

July 14, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Jun 2023

Allgenesis says dry eye patients’ trial data ‘encouraging’

Allgenesis Biotherapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel ophthalmic drugs, has announced topline data from its phase 1b clinical trial for AG-80308, a first-in-class, formyl peptide receptor (FPR) agonist formulated as an aqueous solution eye drop for the treatment of dry eye disease (DED). AG-80308 was considered safe at all doses […]

June 19, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Mar 2023

Cambrian Bio to boost aging pipeline with Amplifier Therapeutics launch

Cambrian Bio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on treating and preventing chronic diseases of aging, has launched its new pipeline company, Amplifier Therapeutics. The organization will develop ATX-304, a pan-AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) activator. Amplifier has also acquired Betagenon AB, a Swedish biopharmaceutical company, which has discovered novel AMPK activators. It will continue its work […]

March 15, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Dec 2022

Khondrion’s sonlicromanol produces encouraging results for next stage of study

Biopharma company, Khondrion, has marked announced improvements from patients with MELAS spectrum disorders taking its lead asset, sonlicromanol. Updates were provided by the company from a 28-day double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled, three-way cross-over phase 2b study called KHNERGYZE in which 27 took part. It also reported updates on the ongoing, open-label extension KHEREREXT phase 2b study […]

December 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

Telix Pharmaceuticals sees positive results in kidney cancer imaging study

Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited said it has highly positive top-line results from its pivotal phase III study of its investigational renal (kidney) cancer positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent, TLX250-CDx (89 Zr- DFO-girentuximab). The ZIRCON study (Zirconium in Renal Cancer Oncology, NCT03849118) has met its co-primary and secondary endpoints. The study results delivered 86% sensitivity and […]

November 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Results of phase 3 trial of injection for ovarian cancer imaging published

An injection for intraoperative imaging of folate receptor positive ovarian cancer can identify more of the disease than is unable to be identified conventionally. Biotech company On Target Laboratories announced that the results from its phase 3, 006 study of the Cytalux (pafolacianine) injection had been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology yesterday (September […]

September 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Sep 2022

Brainomix awarded tender to deploy AI stroke imaging across whole of Hungary

Artificial intelligence (AI) stroke imaging will be deployed across centers in Hungary after Brainomix was awarded a national tender. The company was granted the tender for all stroke centers in the country as part of the National Institute for Health Development initiative to improve stroke care. Following a competitive process, the five-year program that was […]

September 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Interview 19 Aug 2022

Delaying menopause could slow the aging process

After decades of neglect, women’s health is attracting increasing interest in the biotech industry. The U.S. startup Oviva Therapeutics aims to develop hormonal therapies that can delay menopause as part of the aging process. Many biotech companies fighting aging are attracting massive cash infusions. One well-known example is Altos Labs, which launched in Silicon Valley […]

August 19, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Encouraging results from respiratory diseases vaccine trial

A biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines against infectious diseases has announced positive results for people with life threatening respiratory diseases. Icosavax says that in an interim phase 1/1b trial its vaccine IVX-121 has demonstrated robust immunological response to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in both young and older adult groups. The vaccine was generally tolerated with no […]

June 29, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Interview 10 Jan 2022

Leveraging Physics and Quantum Computing to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Novel computational techniques are revolutionizing the way we discover new drugs. Robert Marino, CEO and co-founder of Qubit Pharmaceuticals, discusses the potential of physics to accelerate drug discovery. Paris-based Qubit Pharmaceuticals was established in 2020 to commercialize the work of leading researchers in the computational chemistry space. This field uses computer modeling to predict how […]

January 10, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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