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News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Immutep reports positive data from cancer study

Immutep Limited, an Australian biotech company developing LAG-3-related immunotherapy treatments for cancer and autoimmune disease, has announced new interim data from second-line NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer) patients (Part B) in its phase 2 TACTI-002 trial. The data was presented at the IASLC 2022 World Conference of Lung Cancer (WCLC 2022) in Vienna, Austria, and […]

August 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Clinical hold on trial for colorectal cancer drug lifted by FDA

A clinical hold has been lifted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a trial for a treatment for colorectal cancer after changes were made by the company responsible. Belgium-based Celyad Oncology SA is a clinical biotech company focused on finding and developing chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies for cancer. […]

August 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

More News! 29 Jul 2022

Cancer patients enrolled on study to predict immunotherapy response

An observational study has started enrolling patients with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Florida-based Nilogen Oncosystems made the announcement today (July 29) that those who are receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors in the standard of care will be registered for the study. Using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to discover biomarker signatures as […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

VerImmune raises $2.5M to develop virus-inspired particle immunotherapies

VerImmune, Inc., a U.S. biotech company developing new therapeutic modalities that aim to redirect the body’s pre-existing immunity toward cancer, has obtained $2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by SeedFolio, a seed series venture capital firm. The round also included participation from U.S. and global investment venture firms such as Ulu Ventures, […]

July 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Biotech startup Novasenta raises $40M to advance novel cancer therapeutics

Novasenta Inc., a U.S. startup biotech company focused on the discovery and validation of novel targets to develop cancer therapies, has completed $40 million in Series A financing. The round was led by UPMC Enterprises. The funding will allow Novasenta to advance its pipeline of antibody-based therapeutics and expand its computational platforms for target discovery, […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Commercial personalized cancer cell profile developed in Taiwan

Patients with stage 2 solid tumors could benefit from the world’s first commercial personalized cancer cell profiling, developed in Taiwan. Taipei-based CancerFree Biotech Ltd has developed the technology that will help stage 2 patients and above by shortening the selection process. The technology will be showcasing at US Bio 2022. This is the world’s first […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

AGC Biologics announces gene therapy partnership with Altheia Science

A new development partnership between gene therapy company Altheia Sciences, which pioneers cell and gene treatments, and AGC Biologics, will look at strategies to treat autoimmune disease and cancer. Specifically, the partnership will help advance development of autoimmunity treatments, focused on modulating PD-L1 expression in patients’ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, into clinical testing. PD-L1 […]

July 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Step Pharma moves into oncology clinical trials

Step Pharma, which works on CTPS1 inhibition for the targeted treatment of cancer, has announced its lead asset STP938 has cleared both an Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and a clinical trial application (CTA) by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). This means Step Pharma […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Kelun-Biotech announces joint license agreement with MSD for drug targeting solid tumors

Kelun-Biotech and MSD (Merck & Co.) have announced they are entering in a joint license agreement to develop a drug to treat solid tumors. The announcement was made yesterday (July 27) for the partnership to create the investigational antibody drug conjugate (ADC). Under the terms of the agreement, Kelun-Biotech, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

In Depth 28 Jul 2022

How can vaccines keep up with evolving Covid-19 variants?

Vaccines for COVID-19 have saved lives all over the world, but their protection is threatened by the rise of variants of concern. Companies are developing ways to combat the evolving virus, such as booster shots and universal coronavirus vaccines. During 2021, a plethora of COVID-19 vaccines was rolled out around the world. Since then, mass […]

July 28, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 27 Jul 2022

Diffusion Pharmaceuticals to start brain tumor clinical trial

U.S. biopharma company Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. is set to start a new phase 2 clinical trial. Entitled “Open-Label, Dose-Escalation, Phase 2 Safety and Efficacy Study of TSC in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma (GBM) Patients when Administered with Standard of Care (“SOC”),” the company said the trial is a result of a collaboration with the United States […]

July 27, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 27 Jul 2022

SOTIO Biotech starts solid tumor trial

SOTIO Biotech, a clinical stage immuno-oncology company owned by PPF Group is starting its phase 2 trial on patients with selected advanced/refractory solid tumors. The company has dosed its first patient in the AURELIO-04 combination trial of SOT101 and MSD’s (Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ) anti-PD-1 therapy KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab). “The initiation of this phase […]

July 27, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Immutep reports positive data from cancer study

Clinical hold on trial for colorectal cancer drug lifted by FDA

Cancer patients enrolled on study to predict immunotherapy response

VerImmune raises $2.5M to develop virus-inspired particle immunotherapies

Biotech startup Novasenta raises $40M to advance novel cancer therapeutics

Commercial personalized cancer cell profile developed in Taiwan

AGC Biologics announces gene therapy partnership with Altheia Science

Step Pharma moves into oncology clinical trials

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Diffusion Pharmaceuticals to start brain tumor clinical trial

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