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Cytimmune Sciences nanoparticles red recognizing entering and accumulating in cancer cells

News and Trends 23 Aug 2022

Novel nanotechnology ‘supercharges’ immune system molecules to fight cancer

Researchers from Cytimmune Sciences, a clinical-stage biotech company, have presented new data on the company’s novel cancer nanomedicines. The presentation took place at the Cytokine Drug Development Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, late last month. David Oarr, Cytimmune’s president, participated in the event’s opening panel to discuss the current clinical status and future anticipated progress […]

August 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Aug 2022

Emtora to use $16.9M grant to develop treatment for rare genetic disease

Emtora Biosciences, a Texas-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has been awarded a $16.9 million non-dilutive grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). The funding will be used to advance the clinical and product development of its lead program, eRapa, an encapsulated form of rapamycin, for the treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). […]

August 19, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Kintor Pharmaceutical drug gets positive results for breast cancer

News and Trends 19 Aug 2022

Gilead to acquire remaining worldwide rights of breast cancer drug, Trodelvy

All of Everest Medicine’s development and commercialization rights for a breast cancer drug called Trodelvy have been transferred to American biopharma Gilead Sciences Inc. The transfer of the antibody drug, sacituzumab govitecan treatment, will apply to Greater China, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Mongolia. In China mainland and Singapore, Trodelvy is […]

August 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 18 Aug 2022

First patient on Innovative Cellular Therapeutics’ study looking at treating colorectal cancer

The first patient has been enrolled on a study to trial a treatment for relapsed or refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (R/R mCRC) in the U.S. Innovative Cellular Therapeutics (ICT), Inc. a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a comprehensive portfolio of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies made the announcement today (August 18). Tolerability The study […]

August 18, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 18 Aug 2022

FDA lifts partial clinical hold on Curis lymphoma study

Curis, Inc., a biotech company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted the partial clinical hold on the TakeAim lymphoma phase 1/2 study of emavusertib after reviewing the data package submitted by Curis. “We are excited to announce that FDA […]

August 18, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Aug 2022

Carina Biotech raises funds for colorectal cancer research

Australia’s Carina Biotech has raised A$7.5 million (US$5.2 million) at first close of its current funding round. Venture capital business Tenmile was the cornerstone investor, with support from existing investors. The capital raise enables Carina Biotech to complete its Investigational New Drug (IND) enabling studies and initiate a CAR-T clinical trial of its LGR5 CAR-T […]

August 18, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Aug 2022

AUM LifeTech secures $400,000 grant for lung cancer immunotherapy program

AUM LifeTech, Inc., a Philadelphia-based preclinical stage biotech company, has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance its preclinical program in lung cancer immunotherapy using a non-viral RNA-targeting gene therapy approach. “This grant will help advance our preclinical immunotherapy […]

August 17, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Radiopharmaceuticals for cancer therapy: interview with Steffen Schuster

Interview 17 Aug 2022

The challenges of developing radiopharmaceuticals for cancer

Radiopharmaceuticals have been a relatively niche area of cancer therapy for decades. Steffen Schuster, the CEO of Germany’s ITM Group, outlines how the space is heating up, and how much nuclear medicine centers still need to grow. There are many areas in oncology research that are generating investor excitement, including immuno-oncology, DNA damage repair and […]

August 17, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 17 Aug 2022

Ryvu Therapeutics bags €22M from EIB to work on new cancer treatments

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing €22 million ($22.4 million) in financing to Ryvu Therapeutics, a Polish clinical-stage drug discovery and development company focusing on novel small molecule therapies that address unmet medical needs in oncology. The funding is being provided under the EIB’s venture debt instrument, which is tailored to the specific financing […]

August 17, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Aug 2022

New partnership delivers clinically proven products and manufacturing processes for advanced therapies

AGC Biologics has announced its partnership with supplier of human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (hMSCs), RoosterBio Inc. The partnership, the companies say creates an end-to-end solution for the development and production of hMSCs and exosome therapeutics using RoosterBio’s well-established cell and media products and process development services together with AGC’s cell and gene therapy manufacturing capabilities. […]

August 17, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 17 Aug 2022

Sanofi drops amcenestrant clinical development program

Sanofi says it is discontinuing the global clinical development program of amcenestrant, an investigational oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD). The decision was based on the outcome of an interim analysis of the phase 3 AMEERA-5 trial evaluating amcenestrant in combination with palbociclib compared with letrozole in combination with palbociclib in patients with estrogen receptor-positive […]

August 17, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Aug 2022

Merck puts up to $37B into Orna Therapeutics circular RNA collaboration

Merck, also known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, and Orna Therapeutics, a biotech company working on a new investigational class of engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapies, are to collaborate on discovering, developing, and commercializing multiple programs, including vaccines and therapeutics, in the areas of infectious diseases and oncology. Under the terms of the […]

August 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Novel nanotechnology ‘supercharges’ immune system molecules to fight cancer

Emtora to use $16.9M grant to develop treatment for rare genetic disease

Gilead to acquire remaining worldwide rights of breast cancer drug, Trodelvy

First patient on Innovative Cellular Therapeutics’ study looking at treating colorectal cancer

FDA lifts partial clinical hold on Curis lymphoma study

Carina Biotech raises funds for colorectal cancer research

AUM LifeTech secures $400,000 grant for lung cancer immunotherapy program

The challenges of developing radiopharmaceuticals for cancer

Ryvu Therapeutics bags €22M from EIB to work on new cancer treatments

New partnership delivers clinically proven products and manufacturing processes for advanced therapies

Sanofi drops amcenestrant clinical development program

Merck puts up to $37B into Orna Therapeutics circular RNA collaboration

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