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News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

STORM Therapeutics closes $30M Series B financing

STORM Therapeutics Ltd., which is working on discovering and developing novel small molecule therapies targeting RNA modifying enzymes (RMEs) for oncology and other diseases, has successfully completed a $30 million Series B financing round. The financing was co-led by existing investors M Ventures, Pfizer Ventures, Taiho Ventures LLC, Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) and new investors […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Dec 2022

Vevo Therapeutics launches with $12M to ‘discover better drugs’

Vevo Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using its Mosaic in vivo drug discovery platform and next generation AI models to uncover better drugs for more patients, has launched with an oversubscribed and upsized $12 million seed financing round. Wing Venture Capital and General Catalyst co-led the round with participation from Mubadala Capital, AIX Ventures, and Camford […]

December 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Dec 2022

MicrofluidX raises £3.3M to develop advanced therapy manufacturing platform

MicrofluidX (MFX), a U.K. based provider of next-generation bioreactors for cell research and manufacturing, has announced £3.3 million ($4 million) of secured investments. This brings the company’s total funding to date to £7 million ($8.5 million). MicrofluidX’s next generation platform, the Cyto Engine, addresses the need for an affordable, scalable cell culture platform to revolutionize […]

December 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

ExPLoRNA Therapeutics receives mRNA technology funding

ExPLoRNA Therapeutics, a Polish biotech company working on mRNA vaccines and therapeutics, has received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop its mRNA technology. ExPLoRNA specializes in novel cap analogs, the starting part of mRNA crucial for enabling successful production of the encoded protein. ExPLoRNA’s technology increases protein production beyond the […]

December 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

Apogee Therapeutics raises $169M to tackle immunological and inflammatory disorders

Apogee Therapeutics, LLC, a biotech company advancing novel, potentially best-in-class therapies to address immunological and inflammatory disorders, has announced the closing of a $149 million Series B financing. Proceeds will be used to support Apogee’s plans to advance its lead pipeline program into the clinic in 2023 and expand the leadership, scientific, and clinical teams […]

December 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Dec 2022

Avalon BioVentures to invest in early-stage biotech

L.P., a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage biomedical innovation, has closed its first venture fund, ABV1, with $135 million in funding from new and existing institutional investors. Avalon BioVentures emerged from Avalon Ventures’ shared life-science/high-tech investing funds as a life-science only fund and will continue to leverage Avalon’s team and company accelerator to create, […]

December 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Dec 2022

Pictor receives $5M in funding for Covid antibody test and human and animal portfolios

Pictor, a global leader in immunodiagnostics, has announced a $5 million funding round to help accelerate pipeline product development projects. The company will also use the funding for market development activities within Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. and Europe for its human health and animal health portfolios. This follows a June funding round raising […]

December 6, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 6 Dec 2022

Startup Graegis developing therapies for radiation side-effects

Graegis Pharmaceuticals, a startup developing new therapies aimed at preventing the side effects of radiotherapies, is set to complete the regulatory nonclinical package allowing entry in clinical trials. The company, founded in the last quarter of 2021, spent the first year of operations running critical experiments on the new therapies, which will target radiation side […]

December 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 5 Dec 2022

Bactobio raises £6M to search for new antimicrobials

U.K. biotech company Bactobio Ltd. has closed an oversubscribed £6 million ($7.4 million) bridge financing round. The financing was led by Bridford Group, with support from angel investors Peder Holk Nielsen (former CEO and president of Novozymes) and Hugh Grant (former chairman and CEO of Monsanto). New investors included the founders of the London-based fintech […]

December 5, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Nov 2022

Touchlight receives new grant to further develop doggybone DNA vaccine platform

UK-based biotechnology company, Touchlight, has received a new grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company will use the money to further its pre-clinical development of its doggybone DNA vaccine platform. The program aims to build on evidence that Touchlight’s rapid enzymatic doggybone DNA vaccines can produce strong neutralizing antibodies and durable T […]

November 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Replay receives $1.5M grant for hypoimmunogenic technology platform

Genome writing company Replay has received a $1.56 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of uCell, a proprietary hypoimmunogenic technology platform. Replay’s uCell platform is an off-the-shelf, genomically rewritten, hypoimmunogenic technology that allows allogeneic donor-derived primary cells and iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells) to be made immune silent. […]

November 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Biomemory raises €5M to advance DNA digital data storage solution

Biomemory, a start-up focused on DNA data synthesis and storage, has closed a €5 million ($5.2 million) seed investment for the development of its technology. The seed funding round was led by eureKARE and the French Tech Seed Fund, managed on behalf of the French State by Bpifrance within the scope of France 2030, with […]

November 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Apogee Therapeutics raises $169M to tackle immunological and inflammatory disorders

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Pictor receives $5M in funding for Covid antibody test and human and animal portfolios

Startup Graegis developing therapies for radiation side-effects

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