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News and Trends 22 Nov 2022

Arecor to start second type 2 diabetes clinical trial

Arecor Therapeutics plc says the BASG (Bundesamt für Sicherheit im Gesundheitswesen) has cleared the company’s clinical trial application (CTA) for AT278, an ultra-rapid acting, ultra-concentrated (500 U/mL) insulin candidate, in type 2 diabetic patients. The CTA approval means Arecor can start its second phase I clinical trial for AT278. AT278 has previously demonstrated a faster […]

November 22, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

FogPharma raises $178M to target cancer

U.S biotech company FogPharma has announced a $178 million series D financing. The financing round includes new investors ARCH Venture Partners, Milky Way Investments and Fidelity Management & Research Company and existing investors VenBio Partners, Deerfield Management, GV, Cormorant Asset Management, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Invus, Farallon Capital Management, […]

November 21, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

Legend Biotech small cell lung cancer drug gets FDA ok for clinical development

Legend Biotech Corporation has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Legend Biotech’s investigational new drug (IND) application to proceed with the clinical development of LB2102, an investigational, autologous chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy for the treatment of adult patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC). LB2102 is […]

November 21, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

Immorna cleared for mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine study

U.S. biotech company Immorna says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its investigational new drug (IND) application to conduct a phase 1/2 multi-center study of JCXH-221, a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) complexed broadly protective mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 infection and diseases. The goal of the multi-center study is to assess the safety and immunogenicity […]

November 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

New Replay HSV gene therapy company Telaria to focus on skin diseases

Replay has announced the launch of Telaria, a herpes simplex virus (HSV) gene therapy company targeting rare skin diseases. It is the second of Replay’s product companies to leverage its high payload capacity HSV delivery vector, synHSV. Telaria’s co-founders are HSV scientists, entrepreneurs, and specialists in genetic skin diseases. In addition to Joe Glorioso, Telaria’s […]

November 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

Agreement boosts mRNA manufacturing in Singapore

RVAC Medicines Pte. Ltd., a messenger RNA (mRNA) technology platform company, and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have signed a research collaboration agreement to jointly study and develop solutions to build mRNA manufacturing and analytics capabilities in Singapore. RVAC and A*STAR will set up a joint laboratory based at A*STAR’s Bioprocessing Technology […]

November 21, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

Genomic Data Infrastructure Ireland project to support discovery of genetic causes of disease

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and FutureNeuro are co-leading, with University College Dublin, the Irish element of a new EU project to support the integration of genomics into healthcare and advance new treatments for patients. Jointly funded by the European Commission, under the Digital Europe Programme, and the Health Research Board (HRB), Genomic […]

November 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Nov 2022

FMRP – the protein behind immunotherapy resistance

Immunotherapy is a cutting-edge approach to treating cancer by turning the patient’s own immune system against their tumor. Despite success rates, immunotherapy has time and again met with a stubborn obstacle: tumor cells often evade the “radar” of immune cells seeking to destroy them. This in turn leads to treatment resistance, which in many cases […]

November 21, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine gets expanded authorization for booster in adults

Novavax, Inc., a U.S-based biotechnology company announced today (November 18) that Health Canada has granted expanded authorization for Covid-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid. The vaccine NVX-CoV2373 for active immunization to prevent the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) as a homologous booster in adults aged 18 and older. “Canadians now have access to our […]

November 18, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

Sanofi’s Enjaymo for hemolytic anemia given marketing authorization by EC

Sanofi’s treatment, Enjaymo, for hemolytic anemia in adult patients with cold agglutinin disease (CAD), has been granted marketing authorization by the European Commission (EC). Enjaymo is the first and only approved therapeutic option for the rare, serious and chronic autoimmune disease where the body mistakenly attacks healthy red blood cells and causes their rupture, known […]

November 18, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

MIF invests in KAHR to explore lead immunotherapy drug for multiple myeloma

KAHR Medical, a clinical stage biotech company that is developing a treatment for solid tumors and blood cancers has received investment from the Myeloma Investment Fund (MIF). MIF has made the investment to explore the potential of DSP107, KAHR’s leading immunotherapy drug candidate for the treatment of multiple myeloma. “We are thrilled to partner with […]

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

NW Bio reports positive top-line results from phase 3 glioblastoma trial

Northwest Biotherapeutics, which is developing DCVax personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers, yesterday (November 17) reported that both median and long tail survival were increased in both newly diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma. The brain tumor cancer patients were treated with DCVax-L and in its phase 3 clinical trial met both the primary and secondary […]

November 18, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Arecor to start second type 2 diabetes clinical trial

FogPharma raises $178M to target cancer

Legend Biotech small cell lung cancer drug gets FDA ok for clinical development

Immorna cleared for mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine study

New Replay HSV gene therapy company Telaria to focus on skin diseases

Agreement boosts mRNA manufacturing in Singapore

Genomic Data Infrastructure Ireland project to support discovery of genetic causes of disease

FMRP – the protein behind immunotherapy resistance

Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine gets expanded authorization for booster in adults

Sanofi’s Enjaymo for hemolytic anemia given marketing authorization by EC

MIF invests in KAHR to explore lead immunotherapy drug for multiple myeloma

NW Bio reports positive top-line results from phase 3 glioblastoma trial

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