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News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Canada injecting $11.1M into mRNA vaccine technology at University of British Columbia

The Canadian government is providing more than C$11.1 million (US$8.1 million) for two new mRNA vaccine projects at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The funding, through the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada (PacifiCan), is for UBC to enhance the delivery and efficacy of mRNA vaccines. PacifiCan is investing the money through its Regional […]

October 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Sep 2022

NeuShen Therapeutics closes $20M pre-A financing

Chinese biotech company NeuShen Therapeutics, Inc. has closed an approximately $20 million series pre-A financing led by LAPAM, a China based venture capital. The new capital will be used to expand the team and catalyze in-house CNS (central nervous system) drug discovery in both the U.S. and China. “The successful completion of this fundraising is […]

September 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Scribe Therapeutics enters into agreement with Sanofi for use of its CRISPR technologies

Scribe Therapeutics has entered into an agreement with Sanofi which will allow Sanofi use of its CRISPR genome editing technologies. Scribe Therapeutics’ custom genome editing and delivery tools called CasX-Editors (XE) based on foundations such as the CasX enzyme will enable genetic modification of natural killer (NK) cell therapies for cancer and will support Sanofi’s […]

September 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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 28 Sep 2022

Pheon Therapeutics launches with $68M in series A funding for treatment of solid tumors

Pheon Therapeutics launched today (September 28) following the closing of a $68 million series A funding back in March. The investment will allow antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) specialist Pheon to advance its lead ADC program to clinical proof-of-concept and establish of novel ADCs. The financing was led by Brandon Capital, Forbion and Atlas Venture, with participation […]

September 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Cleara Biotech closes $2.5M round for senescence treatment

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Cleara Biotech closes $2.5M seed financing round to progress senescence treatment

Cleara Biotech has closed a $2.5 million seed financing round that it will use for progress its compounds toward clinical development. The company that develops therapies for treating different pathologies of scarred cellular senescence including late-stage cancer and chronic diseases made the announcement yesterday (September 27). The financing round earlier in the year was led […]

September 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 27 Sep 2022

Capagro launches second fund of €200M to support promising European startups

The most promising startups in the European FoodTech and AgTech sectors will be supported by funding from Capagro. The European AgriTech is building on the success of its first fund five years ago and is now launching its second with a fund of €200 million ($193 million). The launch of the new fund, Capagro Agri-Food […]

September 27, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

CEO and founder Bjorn Manuel Hegelich aligning laser beams within a laser system at TAU's facility in Austin, Texas.

News and Trends 26 Sep 2022

TAU Systems to build new generation of compact particle accelerators after $15M investment

TAU Systems has raised $15 million in seed investment to bring particle accelerators to a multitude of users by harnessing the latest laser technology to make electrons surf on three-dimensional plasma waves and accelerate them to ultra-high energies. The news is significant as, until now, high-energy particle accelerators have been limited to countries and governmental […]

September 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Sep 2022

Surge raises $2.6M in funding for technology and secures exclusive licensing agreement

Surge, a biotech and artificial intelligence innovator that produces technology to decode immune fingerprints, has received $2.6 million in funding. The technology accurately identifies patients at risk before surgery and enables physicians to quickly forecast the risk of postoperative complications. The funding round was co-led by HCVC, a global early-stage fund dedicated to high-potential […]

September 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 26 Sep 2022

Kupando raises €13M in series A funding round led by Remiges Ventures

A company developing agonists that stimulate immune cells today (September 26) announced it has secured €13 million ($12.6 million) in series A funding. Germany-based Kupando develops TLR/47 that stimulate innate immunity for use in oncology and infectious diseases. Kupando says it will use the funds to complete IND-enabling work and to initiate the clinical development […]

September 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 26 Sep 2022

Cuba to receive €46.7M to boost biopharma sector

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has signed the first financing agreement with the Republic of Cuba for the execution of a project to strengthen the Cuban biopharmaceutical industry. On of the goals of the project is to combat COVID-19. The funding is for a total of €46.7 million ($45 million). The initiative, […]

September 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Sep 2022

Grant awarded to help bring to market an innovative treatment for bone cancer

A grant has been awarded to look into the feasibility of bringing to market a new therapy to treat osteosarcoma that aids bone regeneration with fewer side-effects. The European Research Council gave the Proof of Concept grant to professor Cristina Canal from the Technical University of Catalunya’s (UPC) department of materials science and engineering who […]

September 23, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Canada injecting $11.1M into mRNA vaccine technology at University of British Columbia

NeuShen Therapeutics closes $20M pre-A financing

Scribe Therapeutics enters into agreement with Sanofi for use of its CRISPR technologies

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

Pheon Therapeutics launches with $68M in series A funding for treatment of solid tumors

Cleara Biotech closes $2.5M seed financing round to progress senescence treatment

Capagro launches second fund of €200M to support promising European startups

TAU Systems to build new generation of compact particle accelerators after $15M investment

Surge raises $2.6M in funding for technology and secures exclusive licensing agreement

Kupando raises €13M in series A funding round led by Remiges Ventures

Cuba to receive €46.7M to boost biopharma sector

Grant awarded to help bring to market an innovative treatment for bone cancer

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