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News and Trends 15 Nov 2022

Aelis Farma’s first trial for cognitive disorder drug for Down Syndrome patients

Aelis Farma has announced positive results from its safety trials in healthy volunteers and the authorization to start the first trial in people with Down syndrome, with AEF0217, its drug candidate for the treatment of cognitive disorders. Aelis Farma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of treatments for brain diseases, made […]

November 15, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

BC Platforms receives $20M financing

Healthcare data management and analytics company BC Platforms (BCP) has closed a CHF 20 million ($20 million) financing round. The growth equity financing was led by new investor Jolt Capital (HQ Paris), a fully independent private equity firm that specializes in growth capital deeptech in Europe. The new financing will help accelerate the expansion of […]

November 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Nov 2022

First to market doesn’t guarantee success

A comparison of two cancer drugs, Opdivo and Keytruda, reveals that being the first-to-market is not necessarily the main factor in a drug’s success. For the first four years since their approval, the anticancer drug Opdivo outperformed Keytruda in sales. But this trend reversed in 2018, with Keytruda’s sales becoming higher than Opdivo’s. Recently, a […]

November 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 Oct 2022

TrialSpark partners with Sanofi to acquire and develop clinical-stage novel therapies

TrialSpark has announced a new partnership with global pharma company Sanofi to explore novel methods of bringing new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. The collaboration will focus on jointly pursuing the acquisition/in-licensing and development of best-in-class, clinical-stage phase II and phase III drug candidates in areas of high unmet patient need. The partnership […]

October 4, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Optics11 Life receives €5 million in funding for drug development and rollout of products

Expanded offerings for drug development and regenerative medicines will be the focus of €5 million ($4.8 million) funding raised by Optics11 Life. The funding from Forward.ONE and returning investor, Value Creation Capital, was announced today (September 28) and will support the rollout of new products applying the company’s technology for experiments at scale requiring high-throughput […]

September 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 12 Sep 2022

SiSaf reveals positive preclinical data in siRNA program to treat osteopetrosis

SiSaf Ltd, an RNA delivery and therapeutics company, has announced positive data confirming safety and efficacy of its Bio-Courier next generation silicon stabilized hybrid lipid nanoparticles (sshLNP) as an effective non-viral delivery system for autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type 2 (ADO2) siRNA therapy. The data was presented at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research […]

September 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Salipro Biotech obtains patents for direct extraction of membrane proteins and library generation

Salipro Biotech AB, a Swedish biotech company with a platform for the stabilization of membrane proteins for drug development, has had patents issued by both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the China National Intellectual Property Administration. The patent is entitled “Saposin lipoprotein particles and libraries from crude membranes.” The patents cover the company’s […]

September 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 25 Aug 2022

Evotec SE acquires highly-flexible drug manufacturing space for €1

A clinical and commercial manufacturing platform for small molecule therapeutics has expanded following an acquisition signed for. Evotec SE made the announcement today (August 25) after signing the contract yesterday for €1 to take Central Glass Germany GmbH from Japanese manufacturing company Central Glass Co. Ltd. It will now operate as Evotec Drug Substance (Germany) […]

August 25, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 14 Jul 2022

GenScript ProBio enters strategic partnerships with two South Korean biotechs

GenScript ProBio, the CDMO segment of the leading biotech GenScript, has entered into a strategic partnership memorandum of understanding (MOU) with DAAN Bio Therapeutics for the discovery and development of novel drugs and with ACT Therapeutics to develop new CAR-T cell therapies. With offices located in the U.S., the Netherlands, China, Singapore and Japan, GenScript […]

July 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

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The organoid era: bringing patient-relevant preclinical models to the lab

Drug development is a lengthy and costly process that takes at least 10 years on average from drug discovery to commercialization, requiring billions of dollars in investment. However, over 90% of new drugs that are tested in clinical trials fail. Organoids — three-dimensional, patient-derived mini-organs in a dish — offer a solution to this challenge. […]

July 12, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

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Top Reasons to Outsource Your Early Clinical Pipeline to a CDMO

Biotech firms partner with contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) to leverage their expertise in process development, optimization, and scale-up. In this article, we share an exclusive sneak-peek into a recent survey, which explores the main reasons why biotech companies collaborate with CDMOs at different stages of drug development. To make a new drug candidate […]

January 26, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

Opinion 31 Aug 2021

Cloud Foundations for R&D: Designing the Future of Life Sciences

In recent years, artificial intelligence has been hailed as the next big thing in drug discovery. But to leverage the full potential of this technology the life sciences industry first needs to pay attention to experimental design and data collection. We embrace the latest digital technologies to enhance almost everything in our daily lives—from how […]

August 31, 2021 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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