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News and Trends 4 Oct 2022

Ginkgo Bioworks acquires Altar and Circularis

Ginkgo Bioworks has announced the acquisition of two biotech companies, Altar, a French firm with a proprietary adaptive evolution platform, and Circularis, which has a proprietary circular RNA and promoter screening platform. Altar acquisition A fleet of Altar’s automated adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) instruments will be integrated into Ginkgo’s Foundry to serve customers across food and […]

October 4, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 Oct 2022

FDA gives $1.3M grant to Biologics & Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium

The Biologics & Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium (BBCIC) has received a major grant from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in support of biosimilars research. The award provides $1.3 million over two years for a new BBCIC study focused on increasing the efficiency of biosimilar drug development and review. The study, “Improving the Efficiency of […]

October 4, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 Oct 2022

Patents granted for Poolbeg Pharma influenza and respiratory virus infections treatments

Poolbeg Pharma has been granted patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for POLB 001, a small molecule immunomodulator for the treatment of severe influenza and POLB 002, a first-in-class, intranasally administered RNA-based immunotherapy for respiratory virus infections. POLB 001 The USPTO granted a patent for the majority of Poolbeg’s claims around the […]

October 4, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Estrella and TradeUP merge to become publicly traded company

Estrella Biopharma, Inc. and TradeUP Acquisition Corp. have entered into a definitive business combination agreement that will result in Estrella becoming a publicly listed company. Upon closing of the transaction, TradeUP will be renamed Estrella Immunopharma, Inc. Estrella Biopharma is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing CD19-targeted ARTEMIS T-cell therapies under certain license agreements with the […]

October 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Oxford BioTherapeutics enters into antibody agreement with Genmab

Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT) says Genmab has licensed a novel antibody related to one of OBT’s IO programs. The target was discovered using Oxford BioTherapeutics’ OGAP drug discovery platform, which incorporates one of the world’s largest proteomic databases, integrating clinical, experimental and expression data. Under the terms of the agreement, Genmab will be responsible for the […]

October 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Sierra Space and UC San Diego to develop first stem cell research institute in space

Sierra Space and University of California San Diego, one of the world’s top 15 research universities and a leader in microgravity research, have formed a new agreement with the goal of defining the future of human health care research in space. In a new memorandum of understanding between the two organizations, Sierra Space and UC […]

October 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Incyte to acquire Medicxi-backed Villaris Therapeutics to tackle vitiligo

Incyte has entered into an agreement to acquire Villaris Therapeutics, an asset-centric biopharmaceutical company seeded by Medicxi and focused on the development of novel antibody therapeutics for vitiligo. The deal could eventually be worth upwards of $1.4 billion. Its lead asset, auremolimab (VM6), an anti-IL-15Rβ monoclonal antibody (mAb), is expected to enter clinical development in […]

October 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

AmplifyBio acquires PACT Pharma assets

AmplifyBio has acquired select assets from PACT Pharma, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing neoantigen-specific T cell receptor cell therapies. The deal will provide AmplifyBio with advanced characterization platforms, bioinformatics capabilities, and 40 drug development experts to enhance its own cell and gene therapy service offerings. AmplifyBio will also acquire the South San Francisco […]

October 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 30 Sep 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 16: Adocia, Omnio, Phenomix Sciences, Tridek-One

This week, we have four guests: Olivier Soula, deputy-CEO and director of R&D at Adocia; Ulrika Norin, CEO of Omnio; Mark Bagnall, CEO of Phenomix Sciences; and Laurence de Schoulepnikoff, CEO of Tridek-One. We also have our weekly chat with global commercial real estate services company JLL, with Travis McCready. This week’s podcast is sponsored […]

September 30, 2022

News and Trends 29 Sep 2022

Treatment for adults with chronic skin condition approved by FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Dupixent (dupilumab) for the treatment of adult patients with prurigo nodularis. Dupilumab is being jointly developed by Sanofi and Regeneron under a global collaboration agreement. To date, dupilumab has been studied across more than 60 clinical trials involving more than 10,000 patients with various chronic diseases […]

September 29, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

More News! 29 Sep 2022

Positive results from Eisai and Biogen Alzheimer’s trial

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen Inc. have announced positive topline results from Eisai’s large global phase 3 confirmatory Clarity AD clinical trial of lecanemab to treat mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild AD (collectively known as early AD) with confirmed presence of amyloid pathology in the brain. Lecanemab is an […]

September 29, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

New coalition launched to inject $2.5B into startups addressing food, hunger and health

S2G Ventures, Food Systems for the Future and other partners have launched the Food, Nutrition and Health Investor Coalition (FNHIC). The FNHIC is a call to action to drive $2.5 billion in private investment over the next three years to improve hunger and health outcomes through food. The announcement was made at the White House […]

September 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Ginkgo Bioworks acquires Altar and Circularis

FDA gives $1.3M grant to Biologics & Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium

Patents granted for Poolbeg Pharma influenza and respiratory virus infections treatments

Estrella and TradeUP merge to become publicly traded company

Oxford BioTherapeutics enters into antibody agreement with Genmab

Sierra Space and UC San Diego to develop first stem cell research institute in space

Incyte to acquire Medicxi-backed Villaris Therapeutics to tackle vitiligo

AmplifyBio acquires PACT Pharma assets

Beyond Biotech podcast 16: Adocia, Omnio, Phenomix Sciences, Tridek-One

Treatment for adults with chronic skin condition approved by FDA

Positive results from Eisai and Biogen Alzheimer’s trial

New coalition launched to inject $2.5B into startups addressing food, hunger and health

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