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News and Trends 20 Mar 2023

SpyBiotech receives more than $4 million to develop vaccine platform

UK-based SpyBiotech has received a grant of more than $4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build its SpyVector platform for the development of a cross-protective coronavirus vaccine. The platform, which is based on recombinant adenovirus – a viral vector which can induce cellular immunity – enables a covalent decoration with the […]

March 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 13 Mar 2023

New therapy for prevention and treatment of COVID-19

ExeVir Bio, and its scientific founders at Belgium’s VIB, Flanders’ leading life sciences institute, have published a pre-print paper by De Cae et al., entitled “Ultrapotent SARS coronavirus-neutralizing single-domain antibodies that bind a conserved membrane-proximal epitope of the spike.” Nearly all SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies used in the clinic show substantial loss of potency against the […]

March 13, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Feb 2023

Scancell looking to partner after positive COVID vaccine data

Scancell Holdings plc, which develops novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease, has announced preliminary immunogenicity data from its phase 1 COVIDITY clinical trial at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Lung Institute in South Africa. The objectives of the trial were to assess the safety and immunogenicity of two vaccine candidates, […]

February 14, 2023 - 5 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

Interview 23 Jan 2023

Watch: pHion Therapeutics talks about next-generation mRNA vaccines

pHion Therapeutics is a U.K.-based vaccine development company. It is developing a pipeline of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines focussed on viral infections and oncology. The company’s proprietary RALA platform can deliver anionic molecules, such as mRNA and DNA, in a stealth-like way, evading detection, to generate a potent antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell response. The RALA peptide-based […]

January 23, 2023 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 18 Jan 2023

Innovation in life sciences requires collaboration and community

By Claudia Tripp and Katie Nelson, Kadans Science Partner Collaboration has underpinned some of the most impactful innovations of recent years. For example, the rapid development of the COVID vaccine was only made possible due to collaboration. Pfizer’s rapidly-established partnership with BioNTech delivered the first vaccine at lightning speed. Having established an ecosystem approach to […]

January 18, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 17 Jan 2023

Ascletis phase I COVID trial progressing

Ascletis Pharma Inc. has announced the dosing of four healthy subjects in its multiple-dose escalation phase I clinical trial of oral 3-chymotrypsin like protease (3CLpro) inhibitor ASC11 in combination with 100 mg ritonavir tablets for COVID-19. The phase I clinical trial is expected to enroll 72 healthy subjects, including 60 subjects in single-dose escalation cohorts […]

January 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Jan 2023

Breast cancer most studied disease area in 2022

Phesi, a global provider of patient-centric data analytics, has released the results of its global analysis of all clinical trials conducted in 2022. The report, which analyzed 80,917 trial records, reveals that breast cancer retained its position as the most-studied disease area, followed by COVID-19. Three of the top five most-studied disease areas fell within oncology, […]

January 12, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Jan 2023

ExeVir Bio secures funding for COVID program

ExeVir Bio, a Belgian biotech company developing nanobody therapies for broad protection against infectious diseases, has secured a venture debt financing agreement of up to €25 million ($26.5 million) with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The EIB financing will help advance ExeVir Bio’s lead asset, XVR012, into clinical trials for COVID-19. ExeVir Bio’s COVID-19 development […]

January 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Dec 2022

Ethris and DIOSynVax to develop mRNA betacoronavirus vaccine

Ethris GmbH is to collaborate with U.K.-based DIOSynVax to jointly develop a protective mRNA vaccine candidate against a broad range of betacoronaviruses. The efforts will utilize Ethris’ mRNA modification and design technologies as well as its lipidoid nanoparticle (LNP) and stabilization platforms. The collaboration is founded on a $42 million award to DIOSynVax by the […]

December 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Dec 2022

Watch: Atriva Therapeutics at BIO-Europe

Atriva Therapeutics’ mission is to develop an antiviral therapy platform against severe respiratory and systemic diseases with a high unmet medical need induced by RNA viruses, e.g., influenza and COVID-19. The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company is pioneering the development of host-targeting antiviral therapies, making development of viral resistance unlikely, and thereby significantly contributing to pandemic preparedness. […]

December 19, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Dec 2022

Nykode Therapeutics and Richter-Helm BioLogics announce partnership

Nykode Therapeutics ASA has entered into a strategic manufacturing partnership with Richter-Helm BioLogics GmbH & Co KG to supply plasmid DNA for Nykode’s wholly owned and partnered product portfolio. “We are excited about the strategic manufacturing partnership with Richter-Helm BioLogics. As a leading manufacturer of DNA vaccines, they will provide the long-term expertise and capacity […]

December 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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SpyBiotech receives more than $4 million to develop vaccine platform

New therapy for prevention and treatment of COVID-19

Scancell looking to partner after positive COVID vaccine data

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

Watch: pHion Therapeutics talks about next-generation mRNA vaccines

Innovation in life sciences requires collaboration and community

Ascletis phase I COVID trial progressing

Breast cancer most studied disease area in 2022

ExeVir Bio secures funding for COVID program

Ethris and DIOSynVax to develop mRNA betacoronavirus vaccine

Watch: Atriva Therapeutics at BIO-Europe

Nykode Therapeutics and Richter-Helm BioLogics announce partnership

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