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News and Trends 4 Jan 2023

Infex’s novel AMR drug candidate MET-X receives FDA QIDP designation

Infex Therapeutics has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted qualified infectious disease product (QIDP) designation to MET-X, the company’s broad spectrum metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) inhibitor. Infex Therapeutics’ MET-X is a resistance bypass treatment that targets Gram-negative Enterobacterales. These pathogens produce MBL enzymes to deactivate beta-lactam antibiotics and evade antibiotic clearance of […]

January 4, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Jan 2023

Blacksmith Medicines merging with Forge Therapeutics

Blacksmith Medicines, Inc., and Forge Therapeutics have signed a definitive merger agreement. This will create a biopharma company dedicated to discovering and developing medicines targeting a large class of proteins called metalloenzymes. The initial focus will be on oncology and infection. “We are excited to unveil the merger of Blacksmith and Forge, which we believe […]

January 3, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Dec 2022

Watch: Valo Therapeutics at Bio-Europe

Valo Therapeutics Oy is a Finnish immunotherapy company developing antigen-coated oncolytic viruses and vaccine vectors as innovative immunotherapy approaches against cancer and infectious disease. The Valo Therapeutics lead platform, PeptiCRAd (Peptide-coated Conditionally Replicating Adenovirus), was developed at the laboratory of Vincenzo Cerullo at the University of Helsinki in Finland. It turns oncolytic adenoviruses into targeted […]

December 20, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Swedish research center expanding to take on antimicrobial resistance

Research on antibiotic resistance will get a boost when the Center for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) in Gothenburg, Sweden, expands. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most serious global health threats. More than a million people die annually as a direct result of infections caused by resistant bacteria. Lack of effective antibiotics jeopardizes […]

December 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Providence Therapeutics’ mRNA rabies vaccine hits milestone

Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc. says its new mRNA vaccine program for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis has achieved a preclinical proof-of-concept milestone. The candidate was developed in partnership with Everest Medicines utilizing Providence’s clinically validated mRNA technology platform. “We are pleased to demonstrate that Providence’s mRNA technology supports development of additional products that fight a number of […]

December 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

MinervaX raises €72M to develop Group B Streptococcus vaccine

MinervaX ApS, a privately held Danish biotech company developing a novel vaccine against Group B Streptococcus (GBS), has completed a €72 million ($76.5 million) financing round. The equity financing of €22 million ($23.4 million) was co-led by new investors Trill Impact Ventures and Pureos Bioventures and includes existing investors REPAIR Impact Fund (Novo Holdings), Sunstone […]

December 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 1 Dec 2022

Is an HIV Cure Possible? The Future of HIV Therapy

HIV research has come a long way since the virus was discovered in the 1980s. Antiretroviral therapy was a major milestone that has changed the lives of millions; the goal now is to find an HIV cure. Back in 2008, Timothy Ray Brown was the first person to be cured of HIV. Known as the […]

December 1, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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

Impacting vaccine development: COVID-19 and its implications for the future of vaccines

The development of COVID-19 vaccines was an unprecedented achievement at a time of urgent medical need. We explore the novel technology platforms that went into their development and consider their long-term impact on vaccine research. Ever since the first vaccine against smallpox in the late 1700s, vaccines have gained a reputation as a critical tool […]

November 3, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

Interview 28 Oct 2022

Migraines: a new vaccine frontier beyond infectious diseases

By bringing the efficiency and affordability of vaccines to chronic diseases such as migraines, U.S. company Vaxxinity aims to open a new frontier for vaccines in an effort to reach all patient populations, regardless of location or income. Migraine causes severe headaches that are characterized by throbbing pain and associated symptoms such as sensitivity to […]

October 28, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

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In Depth 11 Oct 2022

The biggest private biotech investments in September 2022

The companies Acelyrin, InnovaFeed and Arsenal Biosciences bagged the biggest biotech investments in September 2022, with insect protein and cell therapies attracting big funding rounds. Autumn is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere. After a breather in August 2022, September saw the return of big fundraising activity for biotech companies. We’ve gathered the biggest […]

October 11, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 28 Sep 2022

The 5 hottest private biotechs in South Africa

Biotechnology companies are sprouting in South Africa’s maturing life sciences industry. We’ve listed five private biotech companies that have turned heads in the last few years. South Africa boasts the second biggest economy in Africa after Nigeria. While famous for its rich mineral wealth, South Africa’s economy has diversified widely in the past decades to […]

September 28, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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