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News and Trends 21 Mar 2023

Etana secures funding for oncology pipeline

PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana), an Indonesian biopharmaceutical company, has secured a new round of investment led by DEG followed by Yunfeng Capital, HighLight Capital and East Ventures. The round of financing will be used for further strengthening PT Etana Biotechnologies’ pipeline and portfolio especially in oncology. Currently, PT Etana Biotechnologies focuses on local biopharmaceutical production […]

March 21, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Best in Biotech 21 Mar 2023

5 advancements in Down syndrome research over the past year

It was in 1959 when an extra chromosome on the 21st pair in the human cell was discovered by French geneticist Jerome Jean Louis Marie Lejeune. This was followed by research in the discipline of cytogenetics – the study of chromosomes. This chromosomal aberration which affects around one in 1000 live births worldwide, is called […]

March 21, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 21 Mar 2023

Karuna Therapeutics sees positive schizophrenia trial results

Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. has announced positive topline results from its phase 3 EMERGENT-3 trial evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of its lead investigational therapy, KarXT (xanomeline-trospium) in adults with schizophrenia. The trial met its primary endpoint, with KarXT demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically meaningful 8.4-point reduction in positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) […]

March 21, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Mar 2023

Campbell Neurosciences creates saliva-based test for suicidal thoughts

Therapeutic Solutions International (TSOI) has announced that its spin-off biotech company, Campbell Neurosciences, Inc., obtained successful validation of its suicidal ideation predictive test using a saliva-based system. Previously, the company reported successful stratification of suicidal tendencies using a proprietary blood-based biomarker. In the trial, the company previously assessed levels of the inflammatory marker in 10 […]

March 21, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Mar 2023

SpyBiotech receives more than $4 million to develop vaccine platform

UK-based SpyBiotech has received a grant of more than $4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build its SpyVector platform for the development of a cross-protective coronavirus vaccine. The platform, which is based on recombinant adenovirus – a viral vector which can induce cellular immunity – enables a covalent decoration with the […]

March 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

Expert Advice 20 Mar 2023

Nine tips to succeed in pharma-biotech partnerships

The question of whether to partner with another company is critical to the long-term development of a biotech. Nonetheless, it can be easy for a small company to underestimate the resources it needs to put into a successful collaboration. Here, we’ll go over some expert advice on what to do and what not to do […]

March 20, 2023 - 9 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

67% five-year survival rate in glioblastoma therapy, according to CANbridge Pharmaceuticals study

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that its therapy for glioblastoma has shown a 67% survival rate at five years, three years after the clinical trials ended. Four out of nine of the patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) who were part of the clinical study were reported to be alive three years after the […]

March 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

Likang gets trial ok for China’s first personalized cancer vaccine

Likang Life Sciences has received implied approval for the clinical trial of its personalized neoantigen-targeted vaccine for advanced solid tumors, LK101 injection. This is the first personalized neoantigen vaccine and mRNA editing product approved by China’s Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to enter the clinical stage. Likang submitted […]

March 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

Purple Biotech sees positive results from cancer study

Purple Biotech Ltd. has released new results from exploratory analyses conducted as part of a phase 1 dose escalation study that assessed the safety and tolerability of nivolumab and CM24, which is a monoclonal antibody. Purple Biotech is a clinical-stage company developing first-in-class therapies that harness the tumor microenvironment (TME) to overcome tumor immune evasion […]

March 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 38: Hello Tomorrow Global Summit

The Hello Tomorrow Global Summit took place in Paris last week (March 8-10), and we feature interviews with four of the participants. Our guests this week are: FreezeM CEO and co-founder, Dr. Yuval Gilad; Allogenica CEO and co-founder Inna Menkova; George Frodsham, founder and CEO of MediSieve; and Poulami Chaudhuri, co-founder, and CEO of Helex […]

March 17, 2023

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

How cancer cells repair DNA damage from radiotherapy

A team of scientists led by Kei-ichi Takata from the Center for Genomic Integrity (CGI) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea, has discovered a new type of DNA repair mechanism that cancer cells use to recover from next-generation cancer radiation therapy. Ionizing radiation (IR) therapy is frequently used in the treatment […]

March 17, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Best in Biotech 17 Mar 2023

Greener Pastures for Biotech? 7 Great Biotechs from Ireland

Shamrocks, leprechauns, rolling green fields and Guinness beer all quickly bring Ireland to mind. Beyond these postcard-ready images, Ireland has an economy on the upswing and is a preferred destination for some big pharmas. But what about biotech? Here we explore 7 biotech companies from Ireland. The low corporate tax policies of Ireland have managed to attract […]

March 17, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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Etana secures funding for oncology pipeline

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Nine tips to succeed in pharma-biotech partnerships

67% five-year survival rate in glioblastoma therapy, according to CANbridge Pharmaceuticals study

Likang gets trial ok for China’s first personalized cancer vaccine

Purple Biotech sees positive results from cancer study

Beyond Biotech podcast 38: Hello Tomorrow Global Summit

How cancer cells repair DNA damage from radiotherapy

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