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Ryvu Therapeutics bags €22M from EIB to work on new cancer treatments

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics partner to push immuno-oncology candidates into the clinic

Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership to advance two of Marengo’s preclinical STAR platform-generated candidates into the clinic. Ipsen also announced it is exercising its option to acquire exclusive worldwide rights to an investigational ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) inhibitor, discovered by AGV Discovery. Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics details The collaboration between […]

August 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Immutep reports positive data from cancer study

Immutep Limited, an Australian biotech company developing LAG-3-related immunotherapy treatments for cancer and autoimmune disease, has announced new interim data from second-line NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer) patients (Part B) in its phase 2 TACTI-002 trial. The data was presented at the IASLC 2022 World Conference of Lung Cancer (WCLC 2022) in Vienna, Austria, and […]

August 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 1 Aug 2022

The biggest US biotech investments in July 2022

The asthma specialist Areteia Therapeutics took the U.S.’ top private biotech investment crown in July 2022, with runners-up including liquid biopsy firm Delfi Diagnostics and the metabolic disease drug developer Carmot Therapeutics. The U.S.’ top private biotech investments in July 2022 didn’t reach the giddy heights of National Resilience’s $625 million Series D round in […]

August 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

BioMed X Institute and Merck start new oncology research project

BioMed X, a German independent research institute, has started a new research project ‘Extrachromosomal DNA in Cancer’ (EDC) in collaboration with the Healthcare Business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The main objective of this research group is to develop an atlas of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in human cancer tissues and trace back the mechanisms of […]

August 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Zenas BioPharma gets Chinese approval for thyroid eye disease treatment study

Zenas BioPharma has received approval of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China to start a phase 1/2 clinical study of ZB001 to treat thyroid eye disease (TED). The main objective of the study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy of ZB001. About […]

August 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Clinical hold on trial for colorectal cancer drug lifted by FDA

A clinical hold has been lifted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a trial for a treatment for colorectal cancer after changes were made by the company responsible. Belgium-based Celyad Oncology SA is a clinical biotech company focused on finding and developing chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies for cancer. […]

August 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

More News! 29 Jul 2022

Cancer patients enrolled on study to predict immunotherapy response

An observational study has started enrolling patients with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Florida-based Nilogen Oncosystems made the announcement today (July 29) that those who are receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors in the standard of care will be registered for the study. Using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to discover biomarker signatures as […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

VerImmune raises $2.5M to develop virus-inspired particle immunotherapies

VerImmune, Inc., a U.S. biotech company developing new therapeutic modalities that aim to redirect the body’s pre-existing immunity toward cancer, has obtained $2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by SeedFolio, a seed series venture capital firm. The round also included participation from U.S. and global investment venture firms such as Ulu Ventures, […]

July 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Sarepta looks for quick approval for Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy treatment

U.S. company Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. said it intends to submit a Biologics License Application (BLA) seeking accelerated approval for SRP-9001 (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) to treat ambulant individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. SRP-9001 is an investigational gene therapy for Duchenne being developed in partnership with Roche. “We are delighted to confirm that based on the feedback we […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Biotech startup Novasenta raises $40M to advance novel cancer therapeutics

Novasenta Inc., a U.S. startup biotech company focused on the discovery and validation of novel targets to develop cancer therapies, has completed $40 million in Series A financing. The round was led by UPMC Enterprises. The funding will allow Novasenta to advance its pipeline of antibody-based therapeutics and expand its computational platforms for target discovery, […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Commercial personalized cancer cell profile developed in Taiwan

Patients with stage 2 solid tumors could benefit from the world’s first commercial personalized cancer cell profiling, developed in Taiwan. Taipei-based CancerFree Biotech Ltd has developed the technology that will help stage 2 patients and above by shortening the selection process. The technology will be showcasing at US Bio 2022. This is the world’s first […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 7: World Hepatitis Day

This week’s podcast features three interviews related to hepatitis. Our guests are Ahmed Elsharkawy, consultant transplant hepatologist and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the UK; Ziv Ben-Ari, director of the Liver Diseases Center at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel, and James McIlroy, chief executive officer at EnteroBiotix. World Hepatitis […]

July 29, 2022

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Clinical hold on trial for colorectal cancer drug lifted by FDA

Cancer patients enrolled on study to predict immunotherapy response

VerImmune raises $2.5M to develop virus-inspired particle immunotherapies

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Commercial personalized cancer cell profile developed in Taiwan

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