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pHion Therapeutics CEO Helen McCarthy

Interview 23 Jan 2023

Watch: pHion Therapeutics talks about next-generation mRNA vaccines

pHion Therapeutics is a U.K.-based vaccine development company. It is developing a pipeline of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines focussed on viral infections and oncology. The company’s proprietary RALA platform can deliver anionic molecules, such as mRNA and DNA, in a stealth-like way, evading detection, to generate a potent antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell response. The RALA peptide-based […]

January 23, 2023 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

medical maggots wound treatment

News and Trends 19 Jan 2023

Cloned maggot enzyme wound treatment moves closer to reality

Cambridge U.K. biotech company SolasCure, which is developing a wound cleaning technology, has published its pre-clinical results with the International Wound Journal, showing preliminary evidence that supports its new enzymatic debridement product for use in chronic wounds. Debridement, the removal of all infected and nonviable tissue, is a crucial prerequisite for a wound to heal. […]

January 19, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

cultured meat

News and Trends 17 Jan 2023

Multus Biotechnology closes $9.5M funding to bring cultivated meat closer to price parity

Multus Biotechnology Limited, a U.K.-based start-up creating ingredients for the affordable scale-up of cellular agriculture, has completed a £7.9 million ($9.5 million) funding round led by Mandi Ventures. Other investors include SOSV, Big Idea Ventures and SynBioVen, alongside Asahi Kasei, a global company that contributes to a sustainable society by tackling evolving challenges in materials, […]

January 17, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

gene therapy

News and Trends 17 Jan 2023

TTP spinout Cellular Origins to focus on cell and gene therapies

TTP plc, a technology and product development company, has announced the launch of Cellular Origins. Cellular Origins is a TTP spin-out, created to enable scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Cellular Origins’ proprietary technology addresses the current barriers associated with the manufacture of advanced therapies that are in late-stage development, enabling […]

January 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 12 Jan 2023

Collaboration to boost pandemic preparedness, structure-based drug discovery and vaccine design

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate collaboration in the field of pandemic preparedness and to promote further cooperation between the University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source has been announced. The University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source already have many links but now intend to develop their collaborative work to address multiple […]

January 12, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

inest tumor analysis

News and Trends 6 Jan 2023

BioNTech partnering with UK Government on personalized mRNA cancer immunotherapies

BioNTech SE has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of the United Kingdom. The deal is set to benefit patients by speeding up clinical trials for personalized mRNA immunotherapies. The aim is to provide personalized cancer therapies for up to 10,000 patients by the end of 2030, either through clinical trials or […]

January 6, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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cancer

News and Trends 5 Jan 2023

Cancer Research UK and Turbine to partner on program

Cancer Research Horizons, the innovation engine at the core of the world’s largest private funder of cancer research, Cancer Research UK, has announced that it is partnering with Turbine AI, a tech-enabled biotech leveraging its proprietary Simulated Cell platform to solve complex diseases. The partnership will utilize Turbine AI’s platform to identify target patient populations […]

January 5, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

muscle wasting

News and Trends 4 Jan 2023

Actimed Therapeutics raises £10M for cancer cachexia treatment

Actimed Therapeutics Ltd has completed its second and final £5 million ($6 million) tranche of seed financing. The round was closed with an investment by Indian pharmaceutical company, Mankind Pharma, marking Mankind’s first overseas investment of this type. Actimed Therapeutics is a U.K. based clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on bringing innovation to the […]

January 4, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Roquefort Therapeutics

News and Trends 1 Jan 2023

Watch: Roquefort Therapeutics at BioFIT

Roquefort Therapeutics is a biotech company developing first-in-class drugs in the high value and high growth oncology segment prior to partnering or selling to big pharma. Since listing in March 2021, Roquefort Therapeutics has successfully acquired Lyramid Pty Limited, a leader in the development of medicines for a new therapeutic target, Midkine (a human growth […]

January 1, 2023 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

heart surgery

News and Trends 21 Dec 2022

Stem cell plasters could revolutionize heart surgeries

Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) have developed ‘stem cell plasters’ to revolutionize the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don’t need as many open-heart operations. Heart defects are the most common type of anomaly that develop before a baby […]

December 21, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

green bioactives Anastasiia Slynko

Startup Scout 19 Dec 2022

Green Bioactives grows medicines in plant cells

Though plants may hold the key to new, effective medicines, sourcing these compounds sustainably is difficult. Green Bioactives devises eco-friendly ways to produce plant-derived drugs via plant cell cultures. For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has designed synthetic small molecule drugs and manufactured them via chemical synthesis. While this approach provides an easy way to supply […]

December 19, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Beyond Biotech podcast 26

News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 26: CellCentric, MicrofluidX, Potter Clarkson

This week, we have three guests. We have conversations with Antoine Espinet, CEO of MicrofluidX; Will West, CEO of CellCentric; and Sara Holland, patent attorney at Potter Clarkson. 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, today announces £3.3 million […]

December 16, 2022

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