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News and Trends 12 Oct 2022

SiSaf takes steps with FDA for RNA therapeutic to treat rare genetic skeletal disorders

SiSaf Ltd, an RNA delivery and therapeutics company, is initiating the U.S. FDA Regulatory process to obtain orphan drug designation for SIS-101-ADO. SIS-101-ADO is a siRNA therapeutic for patients with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type 2 (ADO2), a rare genetic skeletal disorder. The request for orphan drug designation and advancement through the regulatory process that SIS-101-ADO […]

October 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Interview 12 Oct 2022

Boosting pharma’s falling productivity with AI in drug discovery

The pharmaceutical industry is struggling with mounting costs of drug development. Generate Biomedicines’ CEO, Michael Nally, outlines the firm’s mission to tackle the trend by making drug discovery scalable. Over the decades, the pharma and biopharma industry has suffered a growing stagnation in productivity. According to a report from University College London in 2018, for […]

October 12, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 12 Oct 2022

Ascidian Therapeutics launches with $50M to rewrite RNA

Ascidian Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on treating human diseases by rewriting RNA, has been launched. With an initial focus on replacing mutated exons at the RNA level, Ascidian’s technology enables therapeutic targeting of large genes and genes with high mutational variance while maintaining native gene expression patterns and levels. This approach is designed to […]

October 12, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Oct 2022

Emergex looks to microneedle patches with Zosano Pharma acquisition

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited has acquired the assets of California-based company Zosano Pharma Corporation. Emergex is a clinical stage biotechnology company addressing major global infectious diseases through the development of fully synthetic CD8+ T cell Adaptive Vaccines. The assets acquired include intellectual property, license agreements, and manufacturing equipment. They also include Zosano’s proprietary microneedle array […]

October 12, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 11 Oct 2022

TILT Biotherapeutics doses first U.S. patient in ovarian cancer immunotherapy trial

TILT Biotherapeutics says the first U.S. patient has been dosed in its ovarian cancer trial using its oncolytic adenovirus, TILT-123. The company said TILT-123 has the potential to be first-in-class for this indication. The open-label, phase I, dose-escalation, multicenter, and multinational, clinical trial of TILT-123 in combination with MSD’s (a tradename of Merck & Co., […]

October 11, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 11 Oct 2022

Illumina and AstraZeneca look to drug target discovery with ‘pivotal research collaboration’

Illumina Inc. has announced a strategic research collaboration with AstraZeneca to accelerate drug target discovery by combining their work in artificial intelligence (AI) based genome interpretation and genomic analysis techniques along with industry expertise. The collaboration will evaluate whether a combined framework of these technologies can increase the yield and confidence of target discovery to […]

October 11, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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In Depth 11 Oct 2022

The biggest private biotech investments in September 2022

The companies Acelyrin, InnovaFeed and Arsenal Biosciences bagged the biggest biotech investments in September 2022, with insect protein and cell therapies attracting big funding rounds. Autumn is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere. After a breather in August 2022, September saw the return of big fundraising activity for biotech companies. We’ve gathered the biggest […]

October 11, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 11 Oct 2022

Muna Therapeutics gets $4.9M grant for Parkinson’s disease research

Muna Therapeutics has been awarded a $4.9 million grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF). The grant will be used to support ongoing preclinical research and development of novel, brain-exposed, small molecule potassium channel type 1.3 (Kv1.3) blockers to abrogate neuroinflammation driven by disease-associated microglia and enhance neuroprotection as a disease-modifying […]

October 11, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 10 Oct 2022

Evonik and Phathom Pharmaceuticals partner on novel acid-blocker vonoprazan

Evonik has entered into a long-term supply agreement with Phathom Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. biopharma company developing and commercializing new treatments for gastric acid-related diseases. Evonik will produce large-scale volumes of vonoprazan at its FDA-inspected manufacturing sites in Tippecanoe, Indiana, U.S., and Dossenheim, Germany. “The manufacture of vonoprazan requires multi-step syntheses involving complex chemistries. We are […]

October 10, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 10 Oct 2022

RadioMedix announces a $40 million series A financing for targeted alpha therapy platform

A company committed to advancing treatments for rare and aggressive cancers has received a series A funding of $40 million. Clinical stage biotech, RadioMedix, Inc. announced the agreement with an entity related to Portland Investment Counsel Inc. (Portland), on Friday (October 7). RadioMedix is committed to the advancement of a targeted alpha therapy (TAT) pipeline […]

October 10, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 7 Oct 2022

AI model study may lead to identifying skin cancer from blood test

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts which skin cancer patients will benefit from a treatment that activates the immune defense system. The scientists are from the University of Helsinki, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Aalto University and Stanford University. In practice, the AI model makes it possible to diagnose skin cancer with […]

October 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Oct 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 17: BIO-Europe, National Hemophilia Foundation

This week, we have three interviews. Our guests are: Pam Putz, managing director of EBD Group EU; André Hofmann, CEO of biosaxony; and Kevin Mills, chief scientific officer at the National Hemophilia Foundation and Teri Willey, managing director of the National Hemophilia Foundation’s Pathway to Cures. We also have our weekly chat with global commercial […]

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SiSaf takes steps with FDA for RNA therapeutic to treat rare genetic skeletal disorders

Boosting pharma’s falling productivity with AI in drug discovery

Ascidian Therapeutics launches with $50M to rewrite RNA

Emergex looks to microneedle patches with Zosano Pharma acquisition

TILT Biotherapeutics doses first U.S. patient in ovarian cancer immunotherapy trial

Illumina and AstraZeneca look to drug target discovery with ‘pivotal research collaboration’

The biggest private biotech investments in September 2022

Muna Therapeutics gets $4.9M grant for Parkinson’s disease research

Evonik and Phathom Pharmaceuticals partner on novel acid-blocker vonoprazan

RadioMedix announces a $40 million series A financing for targeted alpha therapy platform

AI model study may lead to identifying skin cancer from blood test

Beyond Biotech podcast 17: BIO-Europe, National Hemophilia Foundation

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