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Medicon Valley Alliance MVA

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Watch: The Medicon Valley Alliance celebrates 25th anniversary

The Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA) is a non-profit membership organization in the Danish-Swedish life science cluster Medicon Valley. It covers eastern Denmark, which includes the capital, Copenhagen, as well as the southern Sweden region of Skåne, which includes Malmö and Lund. The organization includes more than 300 members, and encompasses universities, hospitals, human life science […]

December 23, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

European Investment Bank

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Affibody signs €20 million loan agreement

Affibody Medical AB has received a €20 million ($21.2 million) venture debt loan facility from the European Investment Bank, EIB, backed by the InvestEU program. The investment will support Affibody’s research and development activities in Europe of the next-generation biopharmaceuticals targeting unmet medical needs in the immunology and oncology fields. “We are very pleased and […]

December 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Beyond Biotech podcast 27

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 27: Cradle, Rani Therapeutics

This week, in our last podcast of 2022, we have two guests. We have conversations with Talat Imran, CEO of Rani Therapeutics; and Stef van Grieken, CEO and co-founder of Cradle. Rani Therapeutics – aiming to remove the pain of needles Rani Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the oral delivery of […]

December 23, 2022

Merck

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Mersana Therapeutics and Merck to develop novel ADCs

Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. has announced a research collaboration and commercial license agreement with a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to discover novel Immunosynthen antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) directed against up to two targets. Immunosynthen, Mersana Therapeutics’ proprietary STING-agonist ADC platform, is designed to generate systemically administered ADCs that locally activate STING signaling in both […]

December 23, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

antibody drug conjugate adc small cancer treatment

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

Merck and Kelun-Biotech collaborating on seven ADC cancer candidates

Merck (MSD outside of the U.S. and Canada), and Kelun-Biotech (a holding subsidiary of Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd), have entered into an exclusive license and collaboration agreement to develop seven investigational preclinical antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) for the treatment of cancer. “Advances in ADC technologies are yielding a new generation of candidates designed to more […]

December 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Mayo Clinic

News and Trends 23 Dec 2022

InSitu Biologics and Mayo Clinic to co-develop anti-cancer therapeutics

InSitu Biologics, Inc. has entered into an agreement with the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research to further develop its prolonged-release drug delivery technology for anti-cancer therapeutics. The company has developed an industry-leading platform technology for loading large doses of a variety of medications into a localized delivery matrix. Once injected, medication elutes from […]

December 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Pre Diagnostics

News and Trends 22 Dec 2022

Watch: Norway’s Pre Diagnostics looks to early detection of Alzheimer’s

Pre Diagnostics AS is a new Norwegian company developing and commercializing an innovative and effective diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Founded by an experienced biotech team, Pre Diagnostics owns the licensed rights to a patent-protected new diagnostic test from the Norwegian university hospital AHUS. The company said it will pursue cost-efficient product development with […]

December 22, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

CAR-T

News and Trends 22 Dec 2022

First CAR-T technology trial for patients with T-cell leukemia subtype authorized

The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Products (AEMPS) has approved the CARxALL clinical trial led by the company OneChain Immunotherapeutics (OCI). It will be the world’s first trial with CAR-T technology for patients with a subtype of T-cell leukemia. The CARxALL trial will evaluate, for the first time, the CAR-T CD1a (OC-1) therapy. This […]

December 22, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

cloud infrastructure

News and Trends 22 Dec 2022

Ganymede Bio raises $12.75M for data platform

Ganymede Bio, the cloud infrastructure provider purpose-built for the life sciences and manufacturing industries, has announced a $12.75 million series A funding round, led by Caffeinated Capital. This follows a $2.9 million seed round completed earlier this year, bringing the total to more than $15.6 million. Founded in 2022, Ganymede Bio has exceeded $1 million […]

December 22, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

eosinophilic esophagitis

News and Trends 22 Dec 2022

Positive Dupixent eosinophilic esophagitis phase 3 results

The New England Journal of Medicine has published results from a positive phase 3 trial showing adults and adolescents treated with Dupixent (dupilumab) 300 mg weekly experienced significant improvements in signs and symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), which were sustained for up to one year. EoE is a chronic, progressive inflammatory disease that damages the […]

December 22, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

sustainability

News and Trends 22 Dec 2022

Japanese companies look to reduce environmental impact

Japanese companies Astellas Pharma Inc., Eisai Co., Ltd., Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have agreed a collaboration to reduce the environmental impact of pharmaceutical packaging. Based on the agreement, the four companies will aim to promote the use of more environmentally-friendly packaging for pharmaceutical products by sharing knowledge on packaging technologies […]

December 22, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Indoor Hops Ekonoke

News and Trends 22 Dec 2022

Spanish foodtech grows in 2022

Eatable Adventures, an agrifood accelerator, has presented the data from its annual study “The State of Foodtech in Spain 2022.” The report gathers information on the characterization and investment evolution of the Spanish foodtech entrepreneurial ecosystem. The report says 2022 has been a positive year for the sector in the country. Despite the macroeconomic context, […]

December 22, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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