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News and Trends 3 Aug 2022

siRNA company Eleven Therapeutics seals $22M funding

Eleven Therapeutics has raised a total of $22 million in seed funding. Among the roster of funders is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which committed $9 million in funding to Eleven, including $5 million towards future equity investment supporting the development of a first-of-its-kind platform that designs small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) with ultra-long durability […]

August 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 3 Aug 2022

The biggest European biotech investments in July 2022

The mRNA firm Normax Biomed snagged Europe’s biggest private biotech investment in July 2022, with runners-up including AgomAb and Tropic Biosciences. Life sciences manufacturing companies saw a big windfall in Europe in July 2022 as the Cork-based Normax Biomed bagged around $301 million. The firm is establishing modular manufacturing facilities that could provide mRNA vaccines […]

August 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Enrollment completed for trial looking at treatment of diabetic kidney disease

Enrollment has been completed for a study of a regenerative cell therapy investigational product for intra-renal artery administration to treat diabetic kidney disease (DKD). U.S.-based Caladrius Biosciences Inc., a clinical-stage biopharma company that develops therapies designed to treat or reverse disease, made the announcement today (August 2). The phase 1b open-label, proof-of-concept study will look […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

New monkeypox tracing method can analyze multiple samples and quickly detect virus strains

Dutch company Molecular Biology Systems (MBS), in collaboration with Amsterdam University Medical Center, and researchers from the Danish Rigshospitalet, has developed a fast typing method to trace monkeypox. The new method, NextGenPCR, not only detects strains of the virus quickly, it allows for analysis of multiple samples simultaneously. This way, the inventors say, genetic characterization […]

August 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Success across the board for C4X Discovery Holdings plc and its partnerships

Drug discovery company C4X Discovery Holdings plc released a report today (August 2) detailing the continued success of its relationship with partners across its portfolio. The company says it is happy to report it received its first milestone payment last month of €3 million ($3.1 million) from Sanofi under the out-licensing agreement for its IL-17A […]

August 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

MAIA Biotechnology raises $10M from public offering

U.S. clinical stage company MAIA Biotechnology, Inc. has closed its initial public offering of 2,000,000 shares of the company’s common stock at a public offering price of $5.00 per share. The gross proceeds from the initial public offering were $10 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and other offering expenses. The company has granted […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 2 Aug 2022

The evolving arsenal against mosquito-borne diseases

Genetic engineering is breaking new ground in the control of mosquito-borne diseases. However, a genetic engineering approach isn’t the only option, as many biotech companies aim to prove. As the global climate continues to warm, disease-spreading mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti are expected to establish themselves in the U.S. and Europe. This could result in […]

August 2, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

IDRx launches with $122M to treat cancer with precision combination therapies

DRx, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, launched today with a $122 million oversubscribed series A financing. The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Casdin Capital, with participation from Nextech Invest, Forge Life Science Partners and other undisclosed investors. Inspired by a few curative combination regimens in cancer and the successful drug cocktails engineered […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

FDA gives ok to Krystal Biotech cystic fibrosis clinical trial

U.S. company Krystal Biotech is set to start a clinical trial for cystic fibrosis after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted its investigational new drug (IND) application. The gene therapy company will be evaluating KB407, a modified HSV-1 vector carrying two copies of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene to […]

August 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Sanofi drops amcenestrant clinical development program

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Defence Therapeutics says AccuTOX kills cancer cells

Defence Therapeutics Inc., a Canadian biopharma company specializing in immune-oncology vaccines and drug delivery technologies, says it has discovered a novel DNA damaging function triggered by one of its lead compounds AccuTOX, which effectively elicits cell death in cancer cells. Cancer can be generally described as a state of uncontrolled cell proliferation. This is mainly […]

August 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Glycostem and medac sign deal on AML and MM product

Glycostem Therapeutics B.V. and medac GmbH are to partner to commercialize Glycostem’s lead product, oNKord. oNKord is currently in a phase 1/2 clinical trial across 10 hospitals in five European countries. Glycostem is a Dutch clinical-stage company focused on the development of therapeutic allogeneic off-the-shelf natural killer (NK) cells, and medac is an international pharmaceutical […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Cellectis gets green light for non-Hodgkin lymphoma trial

French-headquartered gene-editing biotech company Cellectis says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Cellectis’ Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a phase 1/2a clinical trial of UCART20x22 for patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (r/r NHL). The company plans to begin enrolling patients in the NatHaLi-01 study in the second half […]

August 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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siRNA company Eleven Therapeutics seals $22M funding

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Enrollment completed for trial looking at treatment of diabetic kidney disease

New monkeypox tracing method can analyze multiple samples and quickly detect virus strains

Success across the board for C4X Discovery Holdings plc and its partnerships

MAIA Biotechnology raises $10M from public offering

The evolving arsenal against mosquito-borne diseases

IDRx launches with $122M to treat cancer with precision combination therapies

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Defence Therapeutics says AccuTOX kills cancer cells

Glycostem and medac sign deal on AML and MM product

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