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News and Trends 29 Sep 2022

Human cells can now help scientists accelerate cure for neurodegenerative diseases

Cell products providing a scalable source of human cells can now help scientists study neurogenerative diseases in human context. UK-based, cell-coding company, bit.bio announced the expansion to its portfolio today (September 29) with disease model, ioGlutamatergic Neurons TDP-43 and early access to its ioMicroaglia cell product. Despite research efforts and funding, bit.bio says the development […]

September 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Positive results from Eisai and Biogen Alzheimer’s trial

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen Inc. have announced positive topline results from Eisai’s large global phase 3 confirmatory Clarity AD clinical trial of lecanemab to treat mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild AD (collectively known as early AD) with confirmed presence of amyloid pathology in the brain. Lecanemab is an […]

September 29, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

AION Labs launches AI startup to improve drug trials

AION Labs has formed OMEC.AI, the lab’s first startup approved by the Israel Innovation Authority. The new company will develop AI-powered solutions to analyze pre-clinical data and identify gaps in efficacy and safety to improve the probability of success of drug candidates in clinical trials. OMEC.AI aims to build a next-generation computational platform that can […]

September 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

New coalition launched to inject $2.5B into startups addressing food, hunger and health

S2G Ventures, Food Systems for the Future and other partners have launched the Food, Nutrition and Health Investor Coalition (FNHIC). The FNHIC is a call to action to drive $2.5 billion in private investment over the next three years to improve hunger and health outcomes through food. The announcement was made at the White House […]

September 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Primary Aldosteronism Foundation creates alliance to tackle hypertension

The Primary Aldosteronism Foundation has announced the creation of a multi-stakeholder alliance to drive diagnosis and treatment of primary aldosteronism, a common cause of hypertension. Among the partners is Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company developing a novel therapy for the treatment of hypertension. The initiative will facilitate the design and implementation of interventions to […]

September 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Ilya Pharma enrols first patient in diabetic foot ulcer study

Ilya Pharma AB says the first patients have been enrolled in a phase II study for its lead candidate ILP100-Topical in patients with diabetic foot ulcers. Overall, up to 13% of patients with diabetes mellitus of any type develop non-healing ulcers, a physical and psychological disabling condition, where infection of such wound results in a […]

September 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Scribe Therapeutics enters into agreement with Sanofi for use of its CRISPR technologies

Scribe Therapeutics has entered into an agreement with Sanofi which will allow Sanofi use of its CRISPR genome editing technologies. Scribe Therapeutics’ custom genome editing and delivery tools called CasX-Editors (XE) based on foundations such as the CasX enzyme will enable genetic modification of natural killer (NK) cell therapies for cancer and will support Sanofi’s […]

September 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Optics11 Life receives €5 million in funding for drug development and rollout of products

Expanded offerings for drug development and regenerative medicines will be the focus of €5 million ($4.8 million) funding raised by Optics11 Life. The funding from Forward.ONE and returning investor, Value Creation Capital, was announced today (September 28) and will support the rollout of new products applying the company’s technology for experiments at scale requiring high-throughput […]

September 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Biodiversity Genomic Europe project will tackle biodiversity crisis

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Project to tackle biodiversity crisis using the power of DNA data and genomics launched

A project to tackle the biodiversity crisis using DNA data, genomic science that will fundamentally change conservation science and policy has been launched by European experts. The new pan-European Biodiversity Genomic Europe (BGE) consortium was made public day (September 28) is leading the way with this large-scale application of genomic science. Impacts are predicted to […]

September 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Best in Biotech 28 Sep 2022

The 5 hottest private biotechs in South Africa

Biotechnology companies are sprouting in South Africa’s maturing life sciences industry. We’ve listed five private biotech companies that have turned heads in the last few years. South Africa boasts the second biggest economy in Africa after Nigeria. While famous for its rich mineral wealth, South Africa’s economy has diversified widely in the past decades to […]

September 28, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Pheon Therapeutics launches with $68M in series A funding for treatment of solid tumors

Pheon Therapeutics launched today (September 28) following the closing of a $68 million series A funding back in March. The investment will allow antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) specialist Pheon to advance its lead ADC program to clinical proof-of-concept and establish of novel ADCs. The financing was led by Brandon Capital, Forbion and Atlas Venture, with participation […]

September 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Cleara Biotech closes $2.5M round for senescence treatment

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Cleara Biotech closes $2.5M seed financing round to progress senescence treatment

Cleara Biotech has closed a $2.5 million seed financing round that it will use for progress its compounds toward clinical development. The company that develops therapies for treating different pathologies of scarred cellular senescence including late-stage cancer and chronic diseases made the announcement yesterday (September 27). The financing round earlier in the year was led […]

September 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Primary Aldosteronism Foundation creates alliance to tackle hypertension

Ilya Pharma enrols first patient in diabetic foot ulcer study

Scribe Therapeutics enters into agreement with Sanofi for use of its CRISPR technologies

Optics11 Life receives €5 million in funding for drug development and rollout of products

Project to tackle biodiversity crisis using the power of DNA data and genomics launched

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Pheon Therapeutics launches with $68M in series A funding for treatment of solid tumors

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