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News and Trends 10 Aug 2022

Aro Biotherapeutics gets FDA orphan drug designation for treatment of Pompe Disease

Aro Biotherapeutics says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to ABX1100, an investigational Centyrin-siRNA conjugate that targets the Gys1 gene in the muscle, for the treatment of Pompe disease. “We are pleased to have received this designation and are gratified by the FDA’s recognition of the potential of ABX1100 […]

August 10, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 10 Aug 2022

GentiBio and Bristol Myers Squibb to develop engineered Treg therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases

GentiBio, Inc. has entered into a collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to develop new engineered regulatory T cells (Treg) therapies to re-establish immune tolerance and repair tissue in patients living with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The collaboration brings together GentiBio’s engineered Treg platform for generating scalable, stable, highly-selective, and durable Tregs with Bristol Myers Squibb’s […]

August 10, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Approval for Small Pharma major depressive disorder clinical trials

News and Trends 9 Aug 2022

Relmada Therapeutics gets Fast Track designation for major depressive disorder treatment

Relmada Therapeutics, Inc., a late-stage biotech company addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), has been given U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Fast Track designation to REL-1017, the company’s novel NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker, as a monotherapy for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). “The receipt of Fast Track Designation represents […]

August 9, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Aug 2022

Mersana Therapeutics announces collaboration with GSK for the co-development of cancer treatment

A global collaboration was announced today (August 9) between Mersana Therapeutics Inc and GSK plc that will give GSK the option to co-develop and commercialize an antibody drug conjugate (ADC). The ADC called XMT-2056 is designed to activate the innate immune system through STING signaling in both tumor-resident immune cells and in tumor cells. Anna […]

August 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Aug 2022

Positive trial results for schizophrenia drug, KarTX, from PureTech’s founded entity, Karuna Therapeutics

Positive topline results from a phase 3 trial looking at the effect of a drug to treat schizophrenia were announced today (August 8). Karuna Therapeutics Inc, the founded entity of PureTech Health plc, said results from the EMERGENT-2 trial evaluating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of KarXT (xanomeline-trospium) in adults met its primary endpoint and […]

August 8, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Aug 2022

Dallas College gets $8.8M grant to grow biotech workforce in North Texas

Dallas College has been awarded a U.S. Economic Development Administration grant to help underserved communities access living-wage jobs in biotechnology. The college noted biotech is a sector poised to grow exponentially with the need for additional highly skilled employees in North Texas, according to the latest labor market intelligence. With approximately $8.8 million in funds […]

August 8, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Aug 2022

HUTCHMED drug in colorectal cancer trial meets primary endpoint

A trial to look at the use of a drug targeting refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) has met its primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) in patients with the disease. China’s HUTCHMED Limited announced today (August 8) that the phase 3 FRESCO-2 trial investigating the use of fruquintinib had met all secondary endpoints too. The […]

August 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Aug 2022

Allogenic immune cell therapies to be developed as three groups join forces

Three entities have joined forces to develop allogenic immune cell therapies based on a platform that generates functionally mature immune cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). ElevateBio LLC is a technology-driven company focused on powering transformative cell and gene therapies. It announced recently (August 5) that it has formed a yet-to-be-named company co-founded by […]

August 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 5 Aug 2022

Neurocrine to conduct placebo-controlled study to investigate potential new treatment for schizophrenia

A phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of schizophrenia has been accepted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a study can now go ahead. Neurocrine Biosciences received the news and informed its partner Sosei Group Corporation. The approval of the study of NBI-1117568 has triggered a $30 million payment to Sosei. […]

August 5, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 5 Aug 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 8: Biotech Growth Trust, Deep Science Ventures, Endogena Therapeutics, eureKARE

This week’s podcast guests are Laura Fletcher, head of business development and strategic partnerships at Deep Science Ventures; Matthias Steger, CEO of Endogena Therapeutics; Rodolphe Besserve, CEO, and Georges Rawadi, chief of biotech studio development, at eureKARE; and Biotech Growth Trust portfolio manager, Geoff Hsu. Endogena Therapeutics to start clinical stage with treatment for blindness […]

August 5, 2022

News and Trends 5 Aug 2022

Abivax has approval granted to enroll ulcerative colitis patients in two studies

Patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (UC) can now be enrolled onto two phase 3 induction studies for a biotech company’s lead candidate drug. France-based Abivax SA is a phase 3 clinical stage biotech company that focuses on developing therapies that modulate the immune system to treat chronic inflammatory diseases, viral infections, and cancer. […]

August 5, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 4 Aug 2022

Immunis closes $10M financing round

Immunis Inc., a private U.S. biotech company developing a novel treatment for age and disease-related immune decline, has closed a $10 million series A first closing financing led by Remiges Ventures with participation by several other healthcare investment firms. Proceeds will support clinical assessment of Immunis’ immunomodulatory secretome product in an FDA-awarded phase 1/2a clinical […]

August 4, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Aro Biotherapeutics gets FDA orphan drug designation for treatment of Pompe Disease

GentiBio and Bristol Myers Squibb to develop engineered Treg therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases

Relmada Therapeutics gets Fast Track designation for major depressive disorder treatment

Mersana Therapeutics announces collaboration with GSK for the co-development of cancer treatment

Positive trial results for schizophrenia drug, KarTX, from PureTech’s founded entity, Karuna Therapeutics

Dallas College gets $8.8M grant to grow biotech workforce in North Texas

HUTCHMED drug in colorectal cancer trial meets primary endpoint

Allogenic immune cell therapies to be developed as three groups join forces

Neurocrine to conduct placebo-controlled study to investigate potential new treatment for schizophrenia

Beyond Biotech podcast 8: Biotech Growth Trust, Deep Science Ventures, Endogena Therapeutics, eureKARE

Abivax has approval granted to enroll ulcerative colitis patients in two studies

Immunis closes $10M financing round

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