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News and Trends 14 Feb 2023

Astex and Cardiff University Medicines Discovery Institute to collaborate on neurodegenerative diseases

Astex Pharmaceuticals (UK), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics for oncology and diseases of the central nervous system and The Medicines Discovery Institute, Cardiff University (MDI) have entered into a multi-year, multi-million-pound drug discovery research collaboration, aimed to identify new drugs to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The collaboration […]

February 14, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 10 Feb 2023

Heartseed and Novo Nordisk dose first patient in heart failure cell therapy study

Heartseed Inc. and Novo Nordisk A/S say Heartseed has successfully dosed the first patient in a phase 1/2 clinical study (LAPiS Study) with HS-001 – an investigational cell therapy for heart failure. An independent safety evaluation committee has evaluated four-week data on the patient, who lives with advanced heart failure and has given approval for […]

February 10, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Feb 2023

Mnemo Therapeutics and Institut Curie studies lead to cancer-specific targets

Mnemo Therapeutics, a French biotechnology company developing immunotherapies, has announced publication of two scientific studies developed at Institut Curie, its closest academic collaborator, in the journal Science Immunology. The publications reveal TE-exon splicing junctions act as a source of novel recurrent, cancer-specific targets and have potential implications for developing more effective and less toxic immunotherapies. […]

February 7, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Feb 2023

Orbit Discovery and Endevica Bio to develop cachexia therapeutics

Orbit Discovery Limited has entered into a multi target research agreement with Endevica Bio Inc. Endevica creates first-in-class therapeutics for cachexia caused by cancer and other chronic conditions. Its lead compound has proven to be safe and well-tolerated in phase 1 trials. The collaboration aims to accelerate Endevica’s development of advanced G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR)-targeting […]

February 2, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Feb 2023

AstraZeneca creates FRAGLER for DNA synthesis

“Plasmids are critical for so many processes in early drug discovery,” says David Öling, associate principal scientist at AstraZeneca. “From protein production, cell line engineering, CAR-T cell therapy, viral vector generation, therapeutic genome editing, mRNA/vaccine production and more. The time it takes and the cost of producing plasmids for DNA constructs is a critical limiting […]

February 2, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 1 Feb 2023

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health: partnering to tackle cancer

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) takes on cancer through public-private research partnerships on prevention and early diagnosis. Dr Stacey Adam is associate vice president for research partnerships at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. In her role, she leads the cancer research partnership programs. Adam is a molecular pharmacologist/cancer […]

February 1, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 31 Jan 2023

Sensorion and EVEON collaborating on injection system to deliver gene therapy inner ear treatments

Sensorion and EVEON are collaborating on the design and development of an injection system for the delivery of Sensorion’s gene therapy products to the inner ear. Therapies for treating genetic hearing loss are often challenging due to the need for delivery into the inner ear, a very small and delicate organ embedded in the temporal […]

January 31, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Sysnav and Roche partner on movement tracking technology

Sysnav Healthcare and Roche have partnered to develop industry standard outcome measurements in diseases associated with movement impairments, as well as designing the next generation of wearable technology based on Sysnav’s technology. Patients living with a neuromuscular disorder often suffer from movement impairments that fundamentally impact their daily life. Reliable, objective measurements of a patient’s […]

January 26, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Ibex to collaborate with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo on AI breast cancer product

Ibex Medical Analytics has announced an agreement with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, for the development, clinical validation and early adoption of an AI-powered product to aid pathologists with an accurate and reproducible assessment of HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) scoring in breast cancer patients. Scoring of HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) protein expression in breast […]

January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Milestone for gene-edited therapy for sickle cell disease

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) and CRISPR Therapeutics have announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the Marketing Authorization Application of exa-cel for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT). The submission is supported by two global phase 3 studies investigating exa-cel as a potential one-time therapy for people with […]

January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

Ubiquigent and University of Glasgow to collaborate on drug discovery

Ubiquigent Limited, a drug discovery and development company harnessing novel deubiquitinase (DUB) modulators as new therapeutics for areas of high unmet medical need, is supporting a Master’s student at the University of Glasgow (UoG) to undertake a research project on USP30, a DUB implicated in neruodegenerative, renal, and cardiovascular diseases. Overseen by structural biology experts […]

January 24, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

CytoReason expands deal with Sanofi to look at IBD

CytoReason, which creates computational disease modeling, has announced an expansion of its collaboration with Sanofi. The multi-year collaboration will further fuel Sanofi’s target discovery efforts via CytoReason’s AI platform in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), to identify patient subtypes and pair them with IBD targets. In 2021, Cytoreason announced the initiation of a […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Astex and Cardiff University Medicines Discovery Institute to collaborate on neurodegenerative diseases

Heartseed and Novo Nordisk dose first patient in heart failure cell therapy study

Mnemo Therapeutics and Institut Curie studies lead to cancer-specific targets

Orbit Discovery and Endevica Bio to develop cachexia therapeutics

AstraZeneca creates FRAGLER for DNA synthesis

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health: partnering to tackle cancer

Sensorion and EVEON collaborating on injection system to deliver gene therapy inner ear treatments

Sysnav and Roche partner on movement tracking technology

Ibex to collaborate with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo on AI breast cancer product

Milestone for gene-edited therapy for sickle cell disease

Ubiquigent and University of Glasgow to collaborate on drug discovery

CytoReason expands deal with Sanofi to look at IBD

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