News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Spanish company launches to produce melanin from enzymes A new Barcelona-based company, OXYCO has been created to produce melanin through biocatalysis. OXYCO uses enzymes to produce biomelanin, which is vegan, soluble and its properties can be adjusted to specific needs. Melanin is traditionally not cheap to produce. The most common way to obtain natural melanin is to extract it from sepia ink or […] December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Tachmed aiming to make healthcare more accessible Tachmed is looking to transform access to healthcare through technology. The company’s CEO, Paul Christie, tells us how. What is the driving force behind Tachmed? What motivated you to work towards transforming digital diagnostics technology? It was during my private equity career that the idea of Tachmed was born. I was with a team running […] December 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 OncoHost to launch PROphet for non-small cell lung cancer in the U.S. in 2023 Ofer Sharon is the CEO of OncoHost, a biotech company in the precision oncology space. A physician by training, Sharon has leveraged his experience in pharma drug development and entrepreneurship to lead OncoHost through the development of PROphet, the company’s host response profiling platform, which will launch in the U.S. for non-small cell lung cancer […] December 14, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Startup USSF bringing oral COVID vaccine to market From a small biotech start-up firm in Allentown, Pennsylvania, two scientists are leading their team to bring an oral COVID-19 vaccine to market – one that will be easier to use, longer lasting and with fewer side effects. Kyle Flanigan and Garry Morefield co-founded US Specialty Formulations LLC (USSF) through discussions while watching their daughters […] December 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 How biotech startups can innovate through embracing applied research By Kathleen Lee, director of the Arizona WearTech Applied Research Center Innovation is about breaking new ground and forging new pathways to confront societal issues and solve problems. Many startup companies, especially in the biotech industries, are working towards finding solutions to some of these most complex problems. All solutions start as mere ideas, and […] December 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Navigating running a startup as a Gen Z female founder By: Alina Su, CEO and founder of NovaXS Biotech Corp The next generation of biotech founders are facing new challenges. Despite the access to a world of opportunity on the internet, pursuing your dreams as a Generation Z female biotech founder is not easy. Gen Z has the unpopular stereotype that they are lazy and […] December 14, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 The crucial importance of project management for healthcare startups By Clémentine Duflot, consultant at HC NEXT In an effervescent healthcare innovation field, where risk-assessment and time-to-market are key to break through and survive, speeding and derisking drug and medical device developments to ensure each innovation becomes a product to benefit patients is essential. A drug or medical device development project requires a high level […] December 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 13 Dec 2022 Biomemory is making DNA hard drives cheap and sustainable The world is running out of ways to store the mountains of data we produce. Biomemory is creating DNA-based hard drives that could store this information cheaply, sustainably and for centuries. Society has advanced very far in technologies to store critical data, moving from punched cards and floppy disks in the 20th century to hard […] December 13, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Watch: Interview with Medicon Village CEO Petter Hartman Medicon Village, in Lund, southern Sweden, is part of a cluster of life science research and development, together with actors such as the European Spallation Source (ESS), the BioMedical Centre (BMC) at Lund University and the Max IV Laboratory. Medicon Village is divided into two companies – Medicon Village Fastighets AB and Medicon Village Innovation […] December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Ascletis announces positive COVID-19 trial results Ascletis Pharma Inc. has announced positive topline results from its phase I multiple ascending dose (MAD) study in healthy subjects for oral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor ASC10 for COVID-19 treatment. Ascletis’ ASC10 is an innovative orally available double prodrug, which has a new and differentiated chemical structure from the single prodrug molnupiravir. After oral […] December 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Therabest and Glycotope to assess breast cancer combination treatment Therabest USA. Inc, Therabest Korea and Glycotope GmbH have signed an agreement to assess the clinical development of Therabest’s EiNK (enhanced iPSC-derived NK) cell therapy, TB-100, in combination with Glycotope’s immuno-cytokine, GT-00AxIL15 in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. NK (natural killer) cell therapies from various cell sources have demonstrated exciting results in early clinical trials […] December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Blood clotting research holds hope for sepsis Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the U.K., who identified a novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting (thrombosis), are now turning their attention to sepsis. Identified by associate professor Julie Rayes and Martina Colicchia from the Birmingham Platelet Group, and described in a recent paper in Blood, this previously unknown axis […] December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email