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More News! 3 Aug 2022

Allarity Therapeutics takes advice from its board and switches focus to combination therapies

US-based Allarity Therapeutics has made a decision to change tack and focus on combination therapy approaches while making the most of its current assets. The company says the new strategy, driven by its board of directors, aligns with the ongoing shift in oncology standard-of-care moving away from monotherapies. Instead it will veer towards more promising […]

August 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

More News! 3 Aug 2022

Orca Bio announces Precision-T phase 3 study open and enrolling patients across US transplant centers

US-based Orca Bio, today announced Precision-T, its pivotal phase 3 study, is open, enrolling and treating 174 leukemia patients at more than 20 clinical trial sites. Precision-T is a randomized, open-label multi-center study that is evaluating the safety and efficacy of Orca Bio’s lead investigational high-precision cell therapy, Orca-T, compared to standard of care allogeneic […]

August 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 3 Aug 2022

siRNA company Eleven Therapeutics seals $22M funding

Eleven Therapeutics has raised a total of $22 million in seed funding. Among the roster of funders is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which committed $9 million in funding to Eleven, including $5 million towards future equity investment supporting the development of a first-of-its-kind platform that designs small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) with ultra-long durability […]

August 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 3 Aug 2022

The biggest European biotech investments in July 2022

The mRNA firm Normax Biomed snagged Europe’s biggest private biotech investment in July 2022, with runners-up including AgomAb and Tropic Biosciences. Life sciences manufacturing companies saw a big windfall in Europe in July 2022 as the Cork-based Normax Biomed bagged around $301 million. The firm is establishing modular manufacturing facilities that could provide mRNA vaccines […]

August 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

MAIA Biotechnology raises $10M from public offering

U.S. clinical stage company MAIA Biotechnology, Inc. has closed its initial public offering of 2,000,000 shares of the company’s common stock at a public offering price of $5.00 per share. The gross proceeds from the initial public offering were $10 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and other offering expenses. The company has granted […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

IDRx launches with $122M to treat cancer with precision combination therapies

DRx, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, launched today with a $122 million oversubscribed series A financing. The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Casdin Capital, with participation from Nextech Invest, Forge Life Science Partners and other undisclosed investors. Inspired by a few curative combination regimens in cancer and the successful drug cocktails engineered […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Sanofi drops amcenestrant clinical development program

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Defence Therapeutics says AccuTOX kills cancer cells

Defence Therapeutics Inc., a Canadian biopharma company specializing in immune-oncology vaccines and drug delivery technologies, says it has discovered a novel DNA damaging function triggered by one of its lead compounds AccuTOX, which effectively elicits cell death in cancer cells. Cancer can be generally described as a state of uncontrolled cell proliferation. This is mainly […]

August 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Glycostem and medac sign deal on AML and MM product

Glycostem Therapeutics B.V. and medac GmbH are to partner to commercialize Glycostem’s lead product, oNKord. oNKord is currently in a phase 1/2 clinical trial across 10 hospitals in five European countries. Glycostem is a Dutch clinical-stage company focused on the development of therapeutic allogeneic off-the-shelf natural killer (NK) cells, and medac is an international pharmaceutical […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Cellectis gets green light for non-Hodgkin lymphoma trial

French-headquartered gene-editing biotech company Cellectis says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Cellectis’ Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a phase 1/2a clinical trial of UCART20x22 for patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (r/r NHL). The company plans to begin enrolling patients in the NatHaLi-01 study in the second half […]

August 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

SNIPR Biome announces new patent granted for applications targeting E. coli infections

SNIPR Biome has today (August 2) announced that it has been granted a patent for medical applications supporting the company’s lead program – a bacteriophage cocktail targeting E.coli infections. Granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the patent adds to its intellectual property portfolio that contains more than 20 granted patents in the […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

FDA puts clinical hold on Beam Theraputics’ cancer therapy

Beam Therapeutics Inc., a U.S. biotech company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, says the company was informed via email last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a hold on the BEAM-201 Investigational New Drug (IND) application for the treatment of relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL)/T cell lymphoblastic […]

August 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics partner to push immuno-oncology candidates into the clinic

Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership to advance two of Marengo’s preclinical STAR platform-generated candidates into the clinic. Ipsen also announced it is exercising its option to acquire exclusive worldwide rights to an investigational ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) inhibitor, discovered by AGV Discovery. Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics details The collaboration between […]

August 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Allarity Therapeutics takes advice from its board and switches focus to combination therapies

Orca Bio announces Precision-T phase 3 study open and enrolling patients across US transplant centers

siRNA company Eleven Therapeutics seals $22M funding

The biggest European biotech investments in July 2022

MAIA Biotechnology raises $10M from public offering

IDRx launches with $122M to treat cancer with precision combination therapies

Defence Therapeutics says AccuTOX kills cancer cells

Glycostem and medac sign deal on AML and MM product

Cellectis gets green light for non-Hodgkin lymphoma trial

SNIPR Biome announces new patent granted for applications targeting E. coli infections

FDA puts clinical hold on Beam Theraputics’ cancer therapy

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