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News and Trends 30 Jun 2022

Sirana Pharma and Pfizer to work on treatment for brittle bone disease

German biotech company Sirana Pharma GmbH has entered into a collaborative research agreement with Pfizer Inc. to investigate the potential identification and validation of a novel treatment concept for a rare bone disease, osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Also called brittle bone disease, the condition is currently lacking approved drugs. Sirana Pharma focuses on the development of […]

June 30, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Inside Labiotech 30 Jun 2022

Meet Aurore and Liza, our new team members

Making conscious career decisions can be one of the biggest challenges we face, but having a clear aim and core values helps align our life paths to what matters the most to us. With a strong passion in SEO and growth hacking, our new Growth Marketing Manager Aurore was seeking new challenges to use her […]

June 30, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Yi-Jen Chang

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News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Global call for scientists and inventors to form new startup

A fourth start-up but the first of its kind sees some high-profile companies join forces in a hunt for new global research talent. AION Labs, an Israel-based alliance of AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Teva, Israel Biotech Fund and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are focusing their start-up on the ‘prediction of clinical trial outcome in biomarker-stratified cancer patient […]

June 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Drug for childhood arthritis gets expanded approvals in the EU

A drug that can reduce the risk of flare and disease activity in children with enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been approved based on data from a clinical trial. The JUNIPERA trial, showing that Cosentyx (secukinumab) reduced the risk of flare and disease activity compared to placebo over two years in pediatric patients with […]

June 29, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

ARCH Venture Partners launches $3B fund for biotech companies

ARCH Venture Partners has announced the closing of ARCH Venture Fund XII, with $2.975 billion to invest in the creation, development and funding of early stage biotechnology companies. The new fund follows the January 2021 announcement of the $1.941 billion ARCH Venture Fund XI. “All the fundamental innovations in biotechnology are accelerating, with huge promise […]

June 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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

PBC clinical trials: Gannex doses first patient

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Deal to advance treatment for autoimmune disease worth $97M

MiroBio, which is developing checkpoint agonists to treat autoimmune disease, has announced the completion of a $97 million deal. The financing is being led by Medicxi with investments from OrbiMed and Monograph Capital and existing investors Oxford Science Enterprises, Samsara Biocapital, SR One and Advent Life Sciences. Funds will primarily be used to advance MiroBio’s […]

June 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Watch: Antibody Analytics opens new health sciences center

A new facility dedicated to the advancement of medical research and drug development opened its doors recently in Motherwell, Scotland, as part of a major expansion. Antibody Analytics, one of Scotland’s authorities on immunology, officially cut the ribbon on its new health sciences research center. The unveiling of the new Antibody Analytics Discovery Centre, funded […]

June 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Best in Biotech 29 Jun 2022

7 biotech books to dive into this summer

From the unprecedented speed at which the COVID-19 vaccines were developed to the biggest fraud case in biotech history, to a sci-fi story set in a post-apocalyptic city, here are seven biotech books to check out this summer. With record-breaking heat waves announcing the start of summer, there has never been a better time to […]

June 29, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

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In Depth 28 Jun 2022

Protecting our food supply chain with precision fermentation

Many nations are experiencing a food security crisis caused by geopolitical conflicts, extreme weather and supply chain disruption. A wave of precision fermentation companies is working to protect from future food price shocks by producing sustainable protein ingredients from microbes rather than traditional farms. The world is facing a protracted food security crisis with the […]

June 28, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 28 Jun 2022

Time Partners closes £30M venture fund to back life sciences startups

Time Partners Limited has announced the final closing of its first advised fund, Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million ($36.6 million) genomics venture fund to provide match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator Cambridge, UK. Since opening in July 2020, Illumina Accelerator Cambridge has launched 13 startups focused on harnessing genomics applications […]

June 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Jun 2022

Companies unite to bolster diagnostics for cancer and liver disease

Two companies set on making improvements for those with lung cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and breast cancer have partnered in a bid to bolster noninvasive diagnostics for the conditions. IV Bio-holdings (IVBH), a clinical-stage bio-platform company that conceives, creates and scales first-generation precision health solutions that improves the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease […]

June 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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