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Podcast 31 Mar 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 40: Antibody-drug conjugates

This episode of the podcast is an in-depth look at antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). Our guests are Dr Pini Tsukerman, chief scientific of Nectin Therapeutics, and Matthew Robinson, chief technology officer of Immunome. This episode of the podcast is sponsored by PHTA. Immunome Immunome’s Discovery Engine leverages the information stored in memory B cells to […]

March 31, 2023

News and Trends 30 Mar 2023

Vaccitech announces positive topline data for chronic hepatitis study

Vaccitech plc has announced positive topline final data from the HBV002 study, a phase 1b/2a clinical trial of VTP-300 in people with chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection. Vaccitech is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel T cell immunotherapeutics to use the immune system to potentially treat and cure chronic infectious diseases, […]

March 30, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Mar 2023

Metabolism of RNA linked to leukemia

Researchers at Lund University Faculty of Medicine in Sweden have determined a novel mechanism linking the metabolism of ribonucleic acids, RNA, to the development of leukemia in myelodysplastic syndrome patients, MDS. In a study published in the Molecular Cell journal, they explain what makes hematopoietic stem cells acquire malignant traits in cancer. RNA splicing is […]

March 24, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

OncoC4 and BioNTech partner in the commercialization of cancer drug candidate

German biopharma BioNTech has closed a licensing deal with the U.S.-based clinical-stage company OncoC4 for the development and commercialization of the latter’s lead candidate ONC-392, for the treatment of cancer. OncoC4 will receive $200 million upfront, and the transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023. The company will also be […]

March 23, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

LIfT BioSciences has announced what it says are exciting preclinical data demonstrating that its immunomodulatory alpha neutrophil product (IMANp) possesses both cytotoxic and immunomodulatory functionalities. The company said these are commonly cited by medical professionals as being critical for potentially curing solid tumors in patients. LIfT BioSciences said this involved learning from the experience of other […]

March 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

Flare Therapeutics sees $123M oncology boost

Flare Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company targeting transcription factors to discover precision medicines for cancer and other diseases, has announced a $123 million Series B financing. The financing was co-led by GordonMD Global Investments LP and Pfizer Ventures, with participation from existing investors Boxer Capital, Casdin Capital, Eventide Asset Management, Invus Financial Advisors, Nextech Invest […]

March 23, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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

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

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Beyond Biotech podcast 40: Antibody-drug conjugates

Vaccitech announces positive topline data for chronic hepatitis study

Metabolism of RNA linked to leukemia

OncoC4 and BioNTech partner in the commercialization of cancer drug candidate

LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

Flare Therapeutics sees $123M oncology boost

Etana secures funding for oncology pipeline

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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