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News and Trends 30 Jun 2022

Evolved By Nature raises $120M for biotech silk technology

Evolved By Nature, the company creating a library of Activated Silk molecules from natural silk protein, has closed $120M in Series C financing. The round was led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), part of the C$242 billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and Senator Investment Group, with participation from existing investors including Mousse Partners, Chanel, […]

June 30, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 30 Jun 2022

Funding doubled for company working on breakthrough auto-immune disease therapeutics

A Paris-based biotech company developing products for auto-immune diseases, announced today (June 30) that it has almost doubled its initial funding from two companies. The initial funding for Ermium Therapeutics of €6.3 million ($6.57 million) now stands at €12.3 million ($12.83 million) and has been supplied by Kurma Partners and Fountain Healthcare Partners. Ermium discovers […]

June 30, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 30 Jun 2022

Sirana Pharma and Pfizer to work on treatment for brittle bone disease

German biotech company Sirana Pharma GmbH has entered into a collaborative research agreement with Pfizer Inc. to investigate the potential identification and validation of a novel treatment concept for a rare bone disease, osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Also called brittle bone disease, the condition is currently lacking approved drugs. Sirana Pharma focuses on the development of […]

June 30, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Global call for scientists and inventors to form new startup

A fourth start-up but the first of its kind sees some high-profile companies join forces in a hunt for new global research talent. AION Labs, an Israel-based alliance of AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Teva, Israel Biotech Fund and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are focusing their start-up on the ‘prediction of clinical trial outcome in biomarker-stratified cancer patient […]

June 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Drug for childhood arthritis gets expanded approvals in the EU

A drug that can reduce the risk of flare and disease activity in children with enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been approved based on data from a clinical trial. The JUNIPERA trial, showing that Cosentyx (secukinumab) reduced the risk of flare and disease activity compared to placebo over two years in pediatric patients with […]

June 29, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

ARCH Venture Partners launches $3B fund for biotech companies

ARCH Venture Partners has announced the closing of ARCH Venture Fund XII, with $2.975 billion to invest in the creation, development and funding of early stage biotechnology companies. The new fund follows the January 2021 announcement of the $1.941 billion ARCH Venture Fund XI. “All the fundamental innovations in biotechnology are accelerating, with huge promise […]

June 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Encouraging results from respiratory diseases vaccine trial

A biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines against infectious diseases has announced positive results for people with life threatening respiratory diseases. Icosavax says that in an interim phase 1/1b trial its vaccine IVX-121 has demonstrated robust immunological response to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in both young and older adult groups. The vaccine was generally tolerated with no […]

June 29, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

PBC clinical trials: Gannex doses first patient

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Deal to advance treatment for autoimmune disease worth $97M

MiroBio, which is developing checkpoint agonists to treat autoimmune disease, has announced the completion of a $97 million deal. The financing is being led by Medicxi with investments from OrbiMed and Monograph Capital and existing investors Oxford Science Enterprises, Samsara Biocapital, SR One and Advent Life Sciences. Funds will primarily be used to advance MiroBio’s […]

June 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Watch: Antibody Analytics opens new health sciences center

A new facility dedicated to the advancement of medical research and drug development opened its doors recently in Motherwell, Scotland, as part of a major expansion. Antibody Analytics, one of Scotland’s authorities on immunology, officially cut the ribbon on its new health sciences research center. The unveiling of the new Antibody Analytics Discovery Centre, funded […]

June 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Jun 2022

Time Partners closes £30M venture fund to back life sciences startups

Time Partners Limited has announced the final closing of its first advised fund, Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million ($36.6 million) genomics venture fund to provide match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator Cambridge, UK. Since opening in July 2020, Illumina Accelerator Cambridge has launched 13 startups focused on harnessing genomics applications […]

June 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Jun 2022

Companies unite to bolster diagnostics for cancer and liver disease

Two companies set on making improvements for those with lung cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and breast cancer have partnered in a bid to bolster noninvasive diagnostics for the conditions. IV Bio-holdings (IVBH), a clinical-stage bio-platform company that conceives, creates and scales first-generation precision health solutions that improves the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease […]

June 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Kintor Pharmaceutical drug gets positive results for breast cancer

News and Trends 28 Jun 2022

Breast cancer drug recommended for approval

A cancer drug from AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo called Enhertu, that reduces the risk of disease progression or even death by 72%, has been recommended for approval in the European Union (EU). The drug containing trastuzumab deruxtecan is specifically engineered for patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic breast cancer treated with […]

June 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Evolved By Nature raises $120M for biotech silk technology

Funding doubled for company working on breakthrough auto-immune disease therapeutics

Sirana Pharma and Pfizer to work on treatment for brittle bone disease

Global call for scientists and inventors to form new startup

Drug for childhood arthritis gets expanded approvals in the EU

ARCH Venture Partners launches $3B fund for biotech companies

Encouraging results from respiratory diseases vaccine trial

Deal to advance treatment for autoimmune disease worth $97M

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Time Partners closes £30M venture fund to back life sciences startups

Companies unite to bolster diagnostics for cancer and liver disease

Breast cancer drug recommended for approval

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