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News and Trends 20 Apr 2023

Hasten raises $315M for acquisitions and pipeline development

CBC Group, Asia’s largest healthcare-dedicated investment firm headquartered in Singapore, and Hasten Biopharmaceutic Company Limited, have completed a $315 million fundraising round for Hasten. Hasten is a Chinese biopharma company backed by CBC, Hefei Industry Investment Group, and Feidong County of Hefei City. The fundraising round was co-led by CBC and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth […]

April 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 19 Apr 2023

Wound treatment boost from new color-changing dressing

A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of infection without interfering with the healing process has been developed by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden. The study, published in Materials Today Bio, is another step on the road to a new type of wound care. The skin is the largest organ of the human […]

April 19, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Apr 2023

Forbion raises €1.35B to invest in life science companies

European life sciences venture capital firm Forbion has raised €1.35 billion ($1.5 billion) for its two newest funds, bringing the total of funds under management to €3 billion ($3.3 billion). Both funds exceeded the original target sizes and represent Forbion’s largest fundraising to date. The final close of the Forbion Ventures Fund VI has reached […]

April 19, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Apr 2023

Nanocages developed to deliver small interfering RNAs

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are novel therapeutics that can be used to treat a wide range of diseases. This has led to a growing demand for selective, efficient, and safe ways of delivering siRNA in cells. Now, in a cooperation between the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden in the Netherlands, researchers have developed dedicated molecular […]

April 19, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Apr 2023

Complement Therapeutics raises €72M for eye condition gene therapy

Complement Therapeutics GmbH (CTx), a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for complement mediated diseases, has completed a €72 million ($78.7 million) Series A financing. The round was led by Gimv, a Belgian-based private equity and venture capital fund, co-led by Forbion as existing investor and further joined by BioGeneration Ventures (BGV), Panakes Partners, […]

April 18, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 17 Apr 2023

Swedish bacterial resistance study could pave road to new antibiotics

A species of ordinary gut bacteria flourishes when the intestinal flora is knocked out by a course of antibiotics. Since the bacteria are naturally resistant to many antibiotics, this can cause problems. A study at Lund University in Sweden now shows how two molecular mechanisms can work together to make the bacterium extra resistant. “Using […]

April 17, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Apr 2023

Aer Therapeutics raises $36M to tackle lung diseases

Aer Therapeutics, a joint University College Dublin (UCD) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) biopharmaceutical spin-out company developing novel inhaled treatments for muco-obstructive lung diseases, has announced the closing of a $36 million Series A financing round.Funding was received from a syndicate of premier life science industry investors, including Canaan, OrbiMed, and Hatteras Venture […]

April 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Apr 2023

Ghana becomes first country to approve University of Oxford malaria vaccine

Ghana has granted full national licensure for the University of Oxford’s R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, marking the first regulatory clearance for the vaccine for use in any country. Developed by the University of Oxford, leveraging Novavax’s adjuvant technology, and manufactured and scaled up by the Serum Institute of India PvT Ltd (SIIPL), the vaccine has been […]

April 17, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

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News and Trends 14 Apr 2023

TORL BioTherapeutics launches with $158M to target cancer

TORL BioTherapeutics LLC, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new biologics for cancer treatment, has announced its public launch and the closing of a $158 million Series B financing. TORL’s pipeline of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were discovered in the laboratory of scientific co-founder Dennis Slamon, professor of medicine, and chief of […]

April 14, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Apr 2023

Researchers explain how some lung tumors avoid immunotherapy

The oncogenic activation of MYC, a critical gene in cancer progression, has the potential to identify lung cancer patients who may respond poorly to immunotherapy. This is the main conclusion of a study recently published by a team of researchers led by Montse Sanchez-Cespedes, principal investigator of the Cancer Genetics group at the Josep Carreras […]

April 14, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Apr 2023

biomodal launches new multiomics sequencing technology

biomodal, formerly known as Cambridge Epigenetix, has launched its new duet multiomics solution, which it says reveals the combinatorial power of genetic and epigenetic information from a single low volume sample. The duet multiomics solution is the world’s first single-base-resolution sequencing technology that enables the simultaneous phased reading of genetic and epigenetic information in a […]

April 14, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Apr 2023

Parkinson’s cure ‘inevitable’ after biomarker breakthrough

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has announced what it says is the ‘most significant breakthrough yet’ in the search for a Parkinson’s biomarker: a biological test for Parkinson’s disease. The test demonstrates high diagnostic accuracy, differentiates molecular subtypes and detects disease in individuals before cardinal movement symptoms arise. A paper on […]

April 13, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Hasten raises $315M for acquisitions and pipeline development

Wound treatment boost from new color-changing dressing

Forbion raises €1.35B to invest in life science companies

Nanocages developed to deliver small interfering RNAs

Complement Therapeutics raises €72M for eye condition gene therapy

Swedish bacterial resistance study could pave road to new antibiotics

Aer Therapeutics raises $36M to tackle lung diseases

Ghana becomes first country to approve University of Oxford malaria vaccine

TORL BioTherapeutics launches with $158M to target cancer

Researchers explain how some lung tumors avoid immunotherapy

biomodal launches new multiomics sequencing technology

Parkinson’s cure ‘inevitable’ after biomarker breakthrough

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