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News and Trends 16 Feb 2023

Maxion Therapeutics raises $16M to target GPCRs

Biotechnology company Maxion Therapeutics has completed its $16 million Series A financing. The funds will be used to support the development of novel biologics targeting ion channels and G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) via Maxion’s proprietary, patent-protected KnotBody platform. Ion channels and GPCRs are critical cell surface proteins involved in a wide range of previously untreatable or […]

February 16, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Feb 2023

Lipid fingerprint could help TB treatment

A new method that measures the amounts of drugs and lipids in individual cells could help health professionals target more effective treatments for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). Researchers from the University of Surrey in the U.K. were able to isolate individual living cells that contained drugs commonly used to treat tuberculosis and found that […]

February 16, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 14 Feb 2023

Astex and Cardiff University Medicines Discovery Institute to collaborate on neurodegenerative diseases

Astex Pharmaceuticals (UK), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics for oncology and diseases of the central nervous system and The Medicines Discovery Institute, Cardiff University (MDI) have entered into a multi-year, multi-million-pound drug discovery research collaboration, aimed to identify new drugs to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The collaboration […]

February 14, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 10 Feb 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 33: Astellas Pharma, Innovation Agency Lithuania, 4basebio

This week, our guests are Romualda Stragienė, director at Innovation Agency Lithuania and Andrius Sliuzas, export key account manager of high tech industries at Innovation Agency Lithuania; 4basebio CEO Heikki Lanckriet; and Yoshitsugu Shitaka, chief scientific officer at Astellas. 4basebio 4basebio, a spinout of 2Invest AG in 2020, is a life sciences company engaged in […]

February 10, 2023

News and Trends 9 Feb 2023

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult boost for life science campus

The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult), an independent U.K. innovation and technology organization specializing in the advancement of cell and gene therapies, has announced its involvement in the development of a major new campus for life science businesses in Stevenage. The new campus was announced by UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private […]

February 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Feb 2023

Evonetix closes $24M financing

Evonetix Ltd, a synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, has completed a $24 million financing round, extending its total series B funding to over $54 million. This fundraise was led by existing investor Foresite Capital, with Molten Ventures, Morningside, DCVC, Cambridge Consultants, Civilization Ventures and Providence also participating in the round. The […]

February 7, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Feb 2023

UK approval for AbbVie Crohn’s disease drug

AbbVie has announced that the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved RINVOQ (upadacitinib), a janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease (CD) who have had an inadequate response, lost response or were intolerant to either conventional therapy or a biological agent. […]

February 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Feb 2023

Advancing cancer care with 3D genomics

By Oxford BioDynamics Cancer care is in urgent need of effective tests to determine the best approach for personalized medicine. Practical, new solutions exploiting the power of 3D genomics are emerging. Cancer is a vastly complex, multidimensional disease marked by the uncontrolled proliferation of cells. Many intertwined layers of biological systems give rise to the […]

February 1, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 31 Jan 2023

BiVictriX announces positive data from leukemia study

BiVictriX Therapeutics plc has announced positive in vivo data from a toxicity evaluation study with BVX001, the company’s lead program, compared to gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO). GO, marketed as Mylotarg, is the only approved antibody drug conjugate (ADC) indicated for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). One of the significant toxicities of GO is the […]

January 31, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

Ubiquigent and University of Glasgow to collaborate on drug discovery

Ubiquigent Limited, a drug discovery and development company harnessing novel deubiquitinase (DUB) modulators as new therapeutics for areas of high unmet medical need, is supporting a Master’s student at the University of Glasgow (UoG) to undertake a research project on USP30, a DUB implicated in neruodegenerative, renal, and cardiovascular diseases. Overseen by structural biology experts […]

January 24, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

Funding for university to develop new motor neuron disease therapies

Medical research charity LifeArc, the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND Association) and the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation have jointly awarded £1 million ($1.2 million) to researchers at University College London (UCL) to progress two pioneering new therapies that could help transform the lives of those living with motor neuron disease (MND). The research grants are […]

January 24, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Jose Bengoechea professor Queen’s University in Belfast Northern Ireland

Interview 24 Jan 2023

Watch: Queen’s University tackling antimicrobial resistance

One of the biggest global challenges facing healthcare systems is bacteria and viruses becoming resistant to drugs. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to the deaths of around 700,000 people annually. Without new drugs or ways of dealing with AMR, the number of deaths could reach as many as 10 million per year by 2050 and cause […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Maxion Therapeutics raises $16M to target GPCRs

Lipid fingerprint could help TB treatment

Astex and Cardiff University Medicines Discovery Institute to collaborate on neurodegenerative diseases

Beyond Biotech podcast 33: Astellas Pharma, Innovation Agency Lithuania, 4basebio

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult boost for life science campus

Evonetix closes $24M financing

UK approval for AbbVie Crohn’s disease drug

Advancing cancer care with 3D genomics

BiVictriX announces positive data from leukemia study

Ubiquigent and University of Glasgow to collaborate on drug discovery

Funding for university to develop new motor neuron disease therapies

Watch: Queen’s University tackling antimicrobial resistance

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