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News and Trends 2 Dec 2022

Full-Life Technologies acquiring Focus-X Therapeutics

Full-Life Technologies, a global radiotherapeutics company, is acquiring New Jersey-based Focus-X Therapeutics, a company developing targeted radiopharmaceuticals to treat cancer based on peptide engineering technology. The acquisition expands Full-Life’s pipeline, including two compounds nearing clinical trials, provides a second innovative peptide focused discovery platform, and leverages its radiotechnology manufacturing and logistics platforms to advance compounds […]

December 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Dec 2022

Trial for HPV16 positive oropharyngeal cancer completes enrolment for phase 2

Netherlands-based ISA Pharmaceuticals B.V., has announced that it has completed enrolment in its phase 2 clinical trial. Named OpcemISA. The trial aims to checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with metastatic/advanced 1st and 2nd line HPV16 positive oropharyngeal cancer (OPC). The clinical stage biotech company is developing immunotherapies to treat cancers and infectious diseases, and has […]

December 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 30 Nov 2022

SOTIO exercises option on ADC program

SOTIO Biotech, a clinical stage immuno-oncology company owned by PPF Group, has exercised its first of five exclusive, target-specific options with LegoChem Biosciences (LCB) for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) SOT106, which is currently being evaluated in preclinical studies of solid tumor indications. In November 2021, SOTIO and LCB entered into a multi-target exclusive collaboration and license […]

November 30, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 30 Nov 2022

AstraZeneca splashes out up to $320M on T-cell receptor therapy company

Neogene Therapeutics, Inc., a global clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the discovery, development and manufacturing of next-generation T-cell receptor therapies (TCR-Ts), has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Astrazeneca. AstraZeneca will acquire all outstanding equity of Neogene Therapeutics for a total consideration of up to $320 million, on a cash and debt free […]

November 30, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Interview 29 Nov 2022

LAG-3: The next big checkpoint inhibitor target

Since their first approval a decade ago, immune checkpoint inhibitors have been gaining momentum in the treatment of cancer. The Australian-French firm Immutep explains why the immune checkpoint target LAG-3 is ripe for innovation in the space. Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized the field of immuno-oncology in the last decade, especially since the approval of […]

November 29, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Molecure to conduct cancer treatment trial in Poland

Molecure S.A. says the President of the Polish Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products has given the company permission to conduct the first clinical trial of OATD-02. The planned phase I trial will be an open-label, multi-center, dose escalation study to evaluate safety, tolerability, anti-cancer activity and to establish the […]

November 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Replay receives $1.5M grant for hypoimmunogenic technology platform

Genome writing company Replay has received a $1.56 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of uCell, a proprietary hypoimmunogenic technology platform. Replay’s uCell platform is an off-the-shelf, genomically rewritten, hypoimmunogenic technology that allows allogeneic donor-derived primary cells and iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells) to be made immune silent. […]

November 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Localizing BRCA gene mutations to better treat ovarian cancer

Mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are inherited by 1 in 400 and 1 in 800 people respectively, significantly increase the risk of certain cancers such as ovarian, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancer. In 2016, a new class of drugs, PARP inhibitors, was found to be highly effective against BRCA mutation-related tumors. However, almost […]

November 28, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Lyvgen and Bristol Myers Squibb commitment to transform cancer care

Lyvgen Biopharma announced yesterday that it has started a phase 2 trial of LVGN7409 plus docetaxel or, in collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb, nivolumab in patients with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). “Lyvgen clinical collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb underscores our commitment to exploring combination regimens from our portfolio with complementary mechanisms of action […]

November 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

STORM Therapeutics doses first patient with drug targeting solid tumors

STORM Therapeutics Ltd, announced today that the first patient in a phase 1 study had been dosed with a drug targeting solid tumors. The biotech company works on discovering and developing new small molecule therapies targeting RNA modifying enzymes (RMEs) for oncology and other diseases. The patient was dosed with STC-15, STORM’s clinical candidate. It […]

November 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 25 Nov 2022

XtalPi and CK Life Sciences partner on tumor vaccine R&D

XtalPi has entered into a strategic collaboration with CK Life Sciences, a member of the CK Hutchison Group. The goal is to jointly develop a novel artificial intelligence (AI) tumor vaccine R&D platform. This will improve the discovery and design capabilities of tumor vaccines and accelerate development of more vaccine types. According to public information, […]

November 25, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Nov 2022

AI works on artificial DNA for future drug development

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that controls the cells’ protein production. The technology can contribute to the development and production of vaccines, drugs for severe diseases, as well as alternative food proteins much faster and at significantly lower costs […]

November 24, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Full-Life Technologies acquiring Focus-X Therapeutics

Trial for HPV16 positive oropharyngeal cancer completes enrolment for phase 2

SOTIO exercises option on ADC program

AstraZeneca splashes out up to $320M on T-cell receptor therapy company

LAG-3: The next big checkpoint inhibitor target

Molecure to conduct cancer treatment trial in Poland

Replay receives $1.5M grant for hypoimmunogenic technology platform

Localizing BRCA gene mutations to better treat ovarian cancer

Lyvgen and Bristol Myers Squibb commitment to transform cancer care

STORM Therapeutics doses first patient with drug targeting solid tumors

XtalPi and CK Life Sciences partner on tumor vaccine R&D

AI works on artificial DNA for future drug development

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