More News! 20 Nov 2018
Phase I Gives Hope for First Zika Vaccine
…Zika vaccine. In addition, scientists at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases started a Phase II trial of their own Zika vaccine last year. In addition to…
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News and Trends 13 Mar 2023
Sanofi adds diabetes drug through Provention Bio $2.9B acquisition
Sanofi and Provention Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based, publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on intercepting and preventing immune-mediated diseases including type 1 diabetes (T1D), have entered into an agreement under which…
News and Trends 4 Jan 2016
Genomics’ Holy Grail: The Secret to Super-Longevity Lies in your Genes
…Implicated in the regulation of the cell life cycle, SNPs from this region have previously been found to be associated with a surprising diversity of age-related diseases. These include cardiovascular…
News and Trends 7 Sep 2016
Promising Boston-based CRISPR Startup hits up Horizon to fix Gene Misregulation
An American outfit from Third Rock Ventures, Fulcrum Therapeutics, has made a deal with Horizon to access its catalogue of genetic anomalies. The collaboration will target diseases arising from gene…
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News and Trends 20 Sep 2022
CytoReason and Pfizer agree deal worth up to $110M for AI drug discovery and development
…of the immune system, as it develops innovative drugs for immune-mediated and immuno-oncology diseases. CytoReason’s platform has provided Pfizer with multiple insights in research and development programs across more than…
News and Trends 4 Jan 2019
Innovative Eye Disease Therapies Move Closer to the Clinic
Oculis has increased its series B fundraising round to CHF35M (€31M) to continue development of its pipeline of topical eye treatments for diseases such as diabetic macular edema. The company…
Interview 2 May 2023
Generative AI in novel drug development
…sense. ChatGPT struggles with languages that we don’t have a lot of training data on. Do generative chemistry models also perform poorly in the case of diseases, say rare diseases,…
News and Trends 12 Apr 2018
British Biotech Raises £29M Round to Fight Lung Disease
…for treating lung diseases including cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary artery disease. In respiratory diseases such as cystic fibrosis, the lungs become congested with mucus, which leads…
News and Trends 20 Mar 2020
Themis and Institut Pasteur Join Coronavirus Vaccine Hunt
The Austrian biotech Themis — specializing in vaccines for infectious and insect-borne diseases — has jumped on the coronavirus vaccine bandwagon along with the Institut Pasteur and other international partners….
In Depth 17 Oct 2017
Blockbuster Potential: How Biotech is Paving the Way to Clear Skin from Psoriasis
…it. Today you can be a severe psoriasis sufferer and live with almost clear skin.” However, Thormann adds, “I think that as in many other diseases, there are two main…
In Depth 13 May 2024
New antidepressants: tackling treatment resistant depression
…diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, immune/inflammatory diseases, etc. In light of these intricate comorbidity pictures of depression, it is essential to note that while a diagnosis of depression can…
Expert Advice 14 Mar 2023
5 reasons why collaboration is important in research
…and speed up drug development, which is crucial when working towards developing successful treatments for a range of complex diseases. With regards to expertise, Linscott commented that the body of…
