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News and Trends 26 Oct 2022

Scancell signs agreement with Genmab

Scancell Holdings plc, the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease, has signed a licensing agreement with Genmab, an international biotechnology company, to develop and commercialize a Scancell investigational anti-glycan monoclonal antibody into novel therapeutic products. Genmab has been granted the exclusive right to develop and commercialize the Scancell antibody […]

October 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Oct 2022

New UK spinout VacV Biotherapeutics emerges from stealth to work on cancer immunotherapies

VacV Biotherapeutics, a cancer immunotherapy company developing innovative viral-based therapies, emerged from stealth mode today to advance its pipeline of pre-clinical assets with best-in-class potential, towards the clinic. VacV Biotherapeutics has spun out of Barts Cancer Institute and Queen Mary University of London following 20 years of research by immunotherapy experts Yaohe Wang, Nicholas Lemoine, […]

October 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 25 Oct 2022

Precision medicine research must lose its Eurocentricity

Precision medicine research relies on genetic testing at scale, but how do we reach more diverse patient populations and collect nationally representative samples? Patrick Short, CEO and co-founder of Sano Genetics, and Natasha Ratcliffe, director of community engagement and partnerships at Couch Health, explain how Eurocentricity is holding back genetics, and what can be done. […]

October 25, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 24 Oct 2022

Hiding in plain sight: how to solve bioscience’s software problem

Guy Levy-Yurista, CEO of the experiment platform developer Synthace, gives his take on what’s missing in increasingly software-dependent life sciences labs: a holistic mindset for improving experimental methods. There’s a major problem holding back progress in biotech, and more widely in the life sciences. It’s not an obvious one, but based on the conversations I […]

October 24, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

In Depth 20 Oct 2022

Opportunities and challenges for cell and gene therapy investments

Companies in the cell and gene therapy space are struggling to raise investments amid adverse market conditions. However, this could be an opportunity for the strongest companies and investors to shine. After several years of record-breaking investments, funding is hard to come by in the gene and cell therapy space. Part of this trend relates […]

October 20, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 20 Oct 2022

AbbVie acquires LifeArc portfolio company DJS Antibodies

AbbVie has acquired LifeArc’s portfolio company DJS Antibodies Limited, a privately-held UK-based biotechnology company dedicated to discovering and developing antibody medicines that target difficult-to-drug disease-causing proteins, such as G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). DJS’s lead program is DJS-002, a potential first-in-class lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptor 1 (LPAR1) antagonist antibody currently in investigational preclinical studies for the […]

October 20, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 20 Oct 2022

Healthy volunteer study for tablet to treat brain cancer open for recruitment

A clinical stage drug company developing sulforaphane-based medicines for cancer treatment has started recruiting for a pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic trial in healthy volunteers (HV). Evgen Pharma plc also announced the start an investigator sponsored clinical study (ISS) for a glioblastoma program. The purpose of the HV study is to examine the performance of Evgen’s new […]

October 20, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 20 Oct 2022

Enhanc3D Genomics raises £10M to advance technology platform

Enhanc3D Genomics, a functional genomics company, has raised £10 million ($11.2 million) in series A financing. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of its proprietary technology platform – GenLink3D. The financing was led by BGF and Parkwalk Advisors, with support from existing private investors and Bioqube Ventures. The funding will enable Enhanc3D […]

October 20, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Startup Scout 19 Oct 2022

Neobe Therapeutics breaks down tumor defenses with bacteria

Many cancer patients cannot benefit from cancer immunotherapy because their tumors are protected from the immune system. Neobe Therapeutics’ bacterial therapy is designed to strip the tumors of their protective barriers. The immune system is very good at fighting tumors, and cancer immunotherapies are often able to supercharge our natural defenses to great effect. However, […]

October 19, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 19 Oct 2022

Nucleome Therapeutics raises £37.5M to deliver precision medicines

U.K. biotech company Nucleome Therapeutics Limited has closed an oversubscribed £37.5 million ($42.4 million) series A financing round. The funds will be used to advance the company’s autoimmune disease programs, fuel expansion of its dark genome atlas and further develop its pioneering platform. The financing was led by new investor M Ventures, the strategic, corporate […]

October 19, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Oct 2022

Empyrean Neuroscience launches with $22M to target CNS disorders

Empyrean Neuroscience, Inc. has launched with $22 million in series A financing and a genetic engineering platform to advance a pipeline of neuroactive compounds targeting disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). The company, based in New York City and Cambridge, U.K., is founded on a proprietary platform designed to genetically engineer small molecule therapeutics […]

October 18, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Oct 2022

Emergex develops vaccine for smallpox and monkeypox

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited has formulated and confirmed the synthesis and assembly of a CD8+ T cell adaptive vaccine for smallpox and monkeypox, made up predominantly of early “eclipse phase” antigens. The monkeypox virus is part of the same family of double-stranded DNA viruses (Poxviridae) as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox; they share […]

October 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Scancell signs agreement with Genmab

New UK spinout VacV Biotherapeutics emerges from stealth to work on cancer immunotherapies

Precision medicine research must lose its Eurocentricity

Hiding in plain sight: how to solve bioscience’s software problem

Opportunities and challenges for cell and gene therapy investments

AbbVie acquires LifeArc portfolio company DJS Antibodies

Healthy volunteer study for tablet to treat brain cancer open for recruitment

Enhanc3D Genomics raises £10M to advance technology platform

Neobe Therapeutics breaks down tumor defenses with bacteria

Nucleome Therapeutics raises £37.5M to deliver precision medicines

Empyrean Neuroscience launches with $22M to target CNS disorders

Emergex develops vaccine for smallpox and monkeypox

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