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Best in Biotech 8 Jun 2023

Six companies that have made their name in the cardiovascular space

Cardiovascular disease is a general term used to describe a disease that affects the heart and blood vessels. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, with statistics from 2019 stating that an estimated 17.9 million people died from some type of cardiovascular disease, making up 32% […]

June 8, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

News and Trends 8 Jun 2023

Minoryx can start phase 3 trial for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy patients

Spanish-headquartered Minoryx Therapeutics says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its phase 3 clinical trial (CALYX) of lead candidate leriglitazone, to treat adult male X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) patients with cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (cALD). X-ALD is an orphan neurodegenerative disease. The global incidence of X-ALD is approximately six to eight per 100,000 live births. […]

June 8, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 7 Jun 2023

How Ireland connects AI and life sciences

Depending on your point of view, artificial intelligence (AI) can create jobs, make life easier, and solve many global problems; or, it’s going to cause mass unemployment, take over the world, and enslave humanity. In the life sciences space, AI is capable of tackling some of the biggest challenges when it comes to tasks like […]

June 7, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Jun 2023

AAVantgarde closes €61M financing to move gene delivery program to the clinic

AAVantgarde Bio, a clinical-stage, Italian-based international biotechnology company with two proprietary adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector platforms for large gene delivery, has closed a €61 million ($65.1 million) Series A financing. The amount represents the largest series A round ever in Italian biotech. AAVantgarde has two proprietary, AAV-based large gene delivery platforms: one leveraging DNA recombination, […]

June 7, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 6 Jun 2023

$5.5M funding for Oncopole to tackle cancer

Oncopole, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS) cancer division in Canada, has received major investments that boost its public-private partnership model dedicated to the fight against cancer. Oncopole will continue to pursue its mission thanks to a $3 million reinvestment from founding partner Merck Canada. Oncopole, FRQS cancer division, is the result of […]

June 6, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Jun 2023

Head and neck cancer data presented at ASCO 2023

Results from promising trials in the fight against head and neck cancer have been presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago. Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, and NEC Corporation, a provider of IT, network and AI technologies, announced new […]

June 6, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

precision medicine, cancer, nRavel, Indivumed Therapeutics, early oncology discovery

Optimizing early discovery by unraveling cancer complexity within precision therapeutics

June 6, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

News and Trends 6 Jun 2023

Shasqi using click chemistry to target cancer

Shasqi, Inc., whose mission is to revolutionize cancer treatment with click chemistry, has entered into a research collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation Inc. Through the collaboration, Shasqi will apply its tumor-targeted Click Activated Protodrugs Against Cancer (CAPAC) platform to the development of new cancer therapies. Shasqi’s CAPAC platform relies on chemistry, not biology, […]

June 6, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Jun 2023

Rabies vaccine gets phase 3 trial approval

YS Biopharma Co. Ltd.’s PIKA rabies vaccine has been granted phase 3 clinical trial approval from the Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines. The phase 3 clinical trial, which is planned to commence later in 2023, is a multi-center, multi-country study designed to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine. The study will […]

June 5, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 5 Jun 2023

The biggest private biotech investments in May 2023

The companies ElevateBio, ReNAgade Therapeutics and Carmot Therapeutics bagged the biggest biotech investments in May 2023. Around the world, biomanufacturing and oncology players attracted the biggest funding rounds. A lot of private biotech fundraising took place in May 2023, with some particularly big rounds in the U.S. healthcare sector, as five companies took home $100 […]

June 5, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

News and Trends 5 Jun 2023

Bacterial resistance genes a ‘threat to human health’

Genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics are much more widespread in our environment than was previously realized. A new study, from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, shows that bacteria in almost all environments carry resistance genes, with a risk of them spreading and aggravating the problem of bacterial […]

June 5, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Jun 2023

Faux filet: World’s first 3D-printed ready-to-cook fish produced

As biotechs come up with fascinating, new ways to cultivate food, Israel-based Steakholder Foods has created the first-ever 3D-printed fish filets. These ready-to-cook filets, which are developed from animal cells that are grown in laboratories, are obtained from the startup’s proprietary 3D bioprinters and customized bio-inks. Said to have the same taste and texture as […]

June 2, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

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