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News and Trends 27 Jan 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 31: Orgenesis, Phacilitate, Terumo, University of Birmingham, VIVEBiotech

Phacilitate’s Advanced Therapies Week took place last week in Miami Beach, Florida. This week, we speak with the organizers, as well as some of the companies in attendance. Our guests are Kim Barnes, EVP, Phacilitate; Kathie Schneider, director and global commercial lead at Terumo; Vered Caplan, CEO, Orgenesis; Ivan Wall, head of the Centre for […]

January 27, 2023

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Orbsen Therapeutics happy with interim diabetic kidney disease study results

Orbsen Therapeutics Limited has announced what it says are encouraging headline interim results from the EU Horizon 2020-funded NEPHSTROM clinical trial for diabetic kidney disease. NEPHSTROM is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1/2a, trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of an off-the-shelf allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell immunotherapy, ORBCEL, in adult study […]

January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

First patient treated in Atrogi type 2 diabetes clinical study

Atrogi AB, an early-stage Swedish pharma company, has announced that the first patient has been enrolled in a phase 1a/b study. Atrogi’s drug candidate, ATR-258 is a first in class novel b2 adrenoceptor agonist with a unique mechanism of action for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and comorbidities. This approach is supported by data […]

January 26, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 11 Jan 2023

What’s in store for biotech in 2023?

Perhaps 2022 will best be remembered in the life science industry for the return of many of the face-to-face events that fell by the wayside during the COVID-19 pandemic. It might have been a mixed year for biotech companies, but 2023 is a new year, with new challenges, but also new opportunities. So what do […]

January 11, 2023 - 14 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 Jan 2023

Aditxt forms Adimune to focus on immune modulation therapies

Aditxt, Inc., a biotech innovation company developing and commercializing technologies with a focus on monitoring and modulating the immune system, has formed a U.S.-based subsidiary Adimune, Inc. The plan is to submit a clinical trial application (CTA) for its immunotherapeutic technology drug candidate, ADI-100 (ADI). The CTA will request approval for Adimune to conduct the […]

January 4, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Dec 2022

Pfizer diabetes and obesity study triggers Sosei Heptares windfall

Sosei Group Corporation has been notified by Pfizer that the first subject in a phase 2 clinical trial has been dosed with Pfizer’s candidate PF-07081532. This triggers a $10 million payment to Sosei Heptares. PF-07081532 is a once-daily, next-generation oral small molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist in development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity. […]

December 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Dec 2022

Watch: Sernova’s Cell Pouch System tackles diabetes

Sernova Corp. is a Canadian-based clinical-stage biotechnology company that is developing its Cell Pouch System. This is a novel implantable and scalable medical device with immune protected therapeutic cells, for the treatment of chronic diseases such as insulin-dependent diabetes, thyroid disease, and blood disorders that include hemophilia A. On implantation, the Cell Pouch forms a […]

December 20, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Dec 2022

Watch: Sigrid CEO talks about lifestyle diseases

Sigrid Therapeutics AB was founded in 2014 by Tore Bengtsson and Sana Alajmovic, with the vision of transforming the way modern day chronic lifestyle diseases are treated and prevented. The company’s research dates back to 2008 when Bengtsson and his research group at the Department of Molecular Biosciences at Stockholm University in Sweden made discoveries […]

December 20, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Sosei Heptares and Lilly enter agreement on diabetes and metabolic diseases

Sosei Group Corporation has entered a drug discovery collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company to discover, develop and commercialize small molecules that modulate novel G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets associated with diabetes and metabolic diseases. The agreement will leverage Sosei Heptares’ StaR technology and structure-based drug design (SBDD) platform and Lilly’s drug development and commercialization […]

December 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

FDA clears insulin pen medical device

BIOCORP, a French company specialized in the design, development, and manufacturing of innovative medical devices, has received 510(K) clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market Mallya, its smart medical device that connects insulin pens. Eric Dessertenne, CEO of BIOCORP, said: “This approval is a major achievement for BIOCORP and all of […]

December 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Nov 2022

Funding to develop wearable patch for type 2 diabetes

A project to develop a patch worn on the cheek that delivers peptide treatments for type 2 diabetes has been awarded just under €3.8 million ($3.9 million) by the EU’s Horizon Europe RESILIENCE program. The ‘BUCCAL-PEP’ project will combine skills to develop a multifunctional biomaterial patch which allows, for the first time, delivery of peptide […]

November 23, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 22 Nov 2022

Arecor to start second type 2 diabetes clinical trial

Arecor Therapeutics plc says the BASG (Bundesamt für Sicherheit im Gesundheitswesen) has cleared the company’s clinical trial application (CTA) for AT278, an ultra-rapid acting, ultra-concentrated (500 U/mL) insulin candidate, in type 2 diabetic patients. The CTA approval means Arecor can start its second phase I clinical trial for AT278. AT278 has previously demonstrated a faster […]

November 22, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Beyond Biotech podcast 31: Orgenesis, Phacilitate, Terumo, University of Birmingham, VIVEBiotech

Orbsen Therapeutics happy with interim diabetic kidney disease study results

First patient treated in Atrogi type 2 diabetes clinical study

What’s in store for biotech in 2023?

Aditxt forms Adimune to focus on immune modulation therapies

Pfizer diabetes and obesity study triggers Sosei Heptares windfall

Watch: Sernova’s Cell Pouch System tackles diabetes

Watch: Sigrid CEO talks about lifestyle diseases

Sosei Heptares and Lilly enter agreement on diabetes and metabolic diseases

FDA clears insulin pen medical device

Funding to develop wearable patch for type 2 diabetes

Arecor to start second type 2 diabetes clinical trial

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