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News and Trends 4 Jan 2023

Actimed Therapeutics raises £10M for cancer cachexia treatment

Actimed Therapeutics Ltd has completed its second and final £5 million ($6 million) tranche of seed financing. The round was closed with an investment by Indian pharmaceutical company, Mankind Pharma, marking Mankind’s first overseas investment of this type. Actimed Therapeutics is a U.K. based clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on bringing innovation to the […]

January 4, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Jan 2023

Janssen looks for talquetamab marketing approval

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson has submitted a marketing authorisation application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of talquetamab for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). Talquetamab is an investigational, off-the-shelf (ready to use), bispecific T-cell engager antibody targeting both GPRC5D, a novel drug […]

January 3, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Jan 2023

Legend Biotech new drug application approved in China

Legend Biotech Corporation has announced that China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has formally accepted its new drug application (NDA) for ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel). This submission is based on data from the confirmatory phase 2 clinical study CARTIFAN-1, conducted in China, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of cilta-cel in adult patients with relapsed or […]

January 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Jan 2023

Sensorion announces first patient enrolled in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity trial

Sensorion has announced that the first patient has been enrolled in its phase 2a proof of concept clinical trial of SENS-401 (Arazasetron) in patients suffering from cisplatin-induced ototoxicity. Cisplatin and other platinum-based compounds are essential chemotherapeutic agents for many cancers. A serious side effect of these therapies is ototoxicity, or permanent and irreversible hearing loss, […]

January 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Jan 2023

Blacksmith Medicines merging with Forge Therapeutics

Blacksmith Medicines, Inc., and Forge Therapeutics have signed a definitive merger agreement. This will create a biopharma company dedicated to discovering and developing medicines targeting a large class of proteins called metalloenzymes. The initial focus will be on oncology and infection. “We are excited to unveil the merger of Blacksmith and Forge, which we believe […]

January 3, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Jan 2023

Watch: Roquefort Therapeutics at BioFIT

Roquefort Therapeutics is a biotech company developing first-in-class drugs in the high value and high growth oncology segment prior to partnering or selling to big pharma. Since listing in March 2021, Roquefort Therapeutics has successfully acquired Lyramid Pty Limited, a leader in the development of medicines for a new therapeutic target, Midkine (a human growth […]

January 1, 2023 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Affibody signs €20 million loan agreement

Affibody Medical AB has received a €20 million ($21.2 million) venture debt loan facility from the European Investment Bank, EIB, backed by the InvestEU program. The investment will support Affibody’s research and development activities in Europe of the next-generation biopharmaceuticals targeting unmet medical needs in the immunology and oncology fields. “We are very pleased and […]

December 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Mersana Therapeutics and Merck to develop novel ADCs

Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. has announced a research collaboration and commercial license agreement with a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to discover novel Immunosynthen antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) directed against up to two targets. Immunosynthen, Mersana Therapeutics’ proprietary STING-agonist ADC platform, is designed to generate systemically administered ADCs that locally activate STING signaling in both […]

December 23, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Merck and Kelun-Biotech collaborating on seven ADC cancer candidates

Merck (MSD outside of the U.S. and Canada), and Kelun-Biotech (a holding subsidiary of Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd), have entered into an exclusive license and collaboration agreement to develop seven investigational preclinical antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) for the treatment of cancer. “Advances in ADC technologies are yielding a new generation of candidates designed to more […]

December 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

InSitu Biologics and Mayo Clinic to co-develop anti-cancer therapeutics

InSitu Biologics, Inc. has entered into an agreement with the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research to further develop its prolonged-release drug delivery technology for anti-cancer therapeutics. The company has developed an industry-leading platform technology for loading large doses of a variety of medications into a localized delivery matrix. Once injected, medication elutes from […]

December 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Dec 2022

Anocca secures €25M to develop next-generation T-cell therapies for cancer

Anocca, a fully integrated cell therapy biotechnology company, has secured €25 million ($26.5 million) venture debt financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB). Anocca’s CEO and co-founder Reagan Jarvis said: “We’re delighted that the EIB has chosen to support us as we build a critical piece of advanced biotechnology capability and infrastructure in Sweden. Anocca’s […]

December 21, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Dec 2022

Artificial DNA can kill cancer

Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have used artificial DNA to target and kill cancer cells in a new way. The method was effective in lab tests against human cervical cancer- and breast cancer-derived cells, and against malignant melanoma cells from mice. The team created a pair of chemically synthesized, hairpin-shaped, cancer-killing DNA. […]

December 21, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Actimed Therapeutics raises £10M for cancer cachexia treatment

Janssen looks for talquetamab marketing approval

Legend Biotech new drug application approved in China

Sensorion announces first patient enrolled in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity trial

Blacksmith Medicines merging with Forge Therapeutics

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Affibody signs €20 million loan agreement

Mersana Therapeutics and Merck to develop novel ADCs

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InSitu Biologics and Mayo Clinic to co-develop anti-cancer therapeutics

Anocca secures €25M to develop next-generation T-cell therapies for cancer

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