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News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

SNIPR Biome announces new patent granted for applications targeting E. coli infections

SNIPR Biome has today (August 2) announced that it has been granted a patent for medical applications supporting the company’s lead program – a bacteriophage cocktail targeting E.coli infections. Granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the patent adds to its intellectual property portfolio that contains more than 20 granted patents in the […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 2 Aug 2022

Sosei Heptares and AbbVie enter second collaboration targeting neurological diseases

A new drug discovery collaboration has taken place between Japanese Sosei Group Corporation and UK-based Abbvie with the hope of targeting neurological disease. This is the second partnership between the companies and offers the option to license agreement which is aimed at discovering, developing and commercializing small molecules that modulate novel G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) […]

August 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Arecor Therapeutics adds diabetes product to portfolio after significant acquisition

Arecor Therapeutics plc has bought all of Tetris Pharma Ltd shares adding a key commercial diabetes product to its portfolio. The company says as well as expanding its portfolio, the acquisition of the entire issued share capital complements its existing hospital products franchise and will speed up its revenue growth. Injectable products Tetris Pharma has […]

August 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Clinical hold on trial for colorectal cancer drug lifted by FDA

A clinical hold has been lifted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a trial for a treatment for colorectal cancer after changes were made by the company responsible. Belgium-based Celyad Oncology SA is a clinical biotech company focused on finding and developing chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies for cancer. […]

August 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Cancer patients enrolled on study to predict immunotherapy response

An observational study has started enrolling patients with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Florida-based Nilogen Oncosystems made the announcement today (July 29) that those who are receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors in the standard of care will be registered for the study. Using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to discover biomarker signatures as […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Commercial personalized cancer cell profile developed in Taiwan

Patients with stage 2 solid tumors could benefit from the world’s first commercial personalized cancer cell profiling, developed in Taiwan. Taipei-based CancerFree Biotech Ltd has developed the technology that will help stage 2 patients and above by shortening the selection process. The technology will be showcasing at US Bio 2022. This is the world’s first […]

July 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 29 Jul 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 7: World Hepatitis Day

This week’s podcast features three interviews related to hepatitis. Our guests are Ahmed Elsharkawy, consultant transplant hepatologist and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the UK; Ziv Ben-Ari, director of the Liver Diseases Center at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel, and James McIlroy, chief executive officer at EnteroBiotix. World Hepatitis […]

July 29, 2022

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

AGC Biologics announces gene therapy partnership with Altheia Science

A new development partnership between gene therapy company Altheia Sciences, which pioneers cell and gene treatments, and AGC Biologics, will look at strategies to treat autoimmune disease and cancer. Specifically, the partnership will help advance development of autoimmunity treatments, focused on modulating PD-L1 expression in patients’ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, into clinical testing. PD-L1 […]

July 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Biogen’s New Drug Application for first treatment of rare form of neurological disease accepted by FDA

A drug to target a rare genetic form of a neurological disease that affects the nerve cells, leading to the loss of everyday functions, could be the first of its kind available if approved. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a New Drug Application (NDA) from Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. for tofersen, an […]

July 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Kelun-Biotech announces joint license agreement with MSD for drug targeting solid tumors

Kelun-Biotech and MSD (Merck & Co.) have announced they are entering in a joint license agreement to develop a drug to treat solid tumors. The announcement was made yesterday (July 27) for the partnership to create the investigational antibody drug conjugate (ADC). Under the terms of the agreement, Kelun-Biotech, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

First of a kind multiple sclerosis biosimilar natalizumab accepted by US Food and Drug Association

Sandoz, a global pharmaceutical company working in generic and biosimilar medicines, announced this week that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its biologics application (BLA) for treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The application is for a biosimilar natalizumab developed by Polpharma Biologics and includes all indications covered by the reference […]

July 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Commercial launch of Monkeypox PCR test announced for research

A PCR test to pick up the monkeypox virus is now available outside the US for use in research applications by laboratories. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) a global medical technology company and CerTesy Biotec made the announcement today (July 27). The BD MAX System used to leverage the test is a fully integrated, automated […]

July 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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SNIPR Biome announces new patent granted for applications targeting E. coli infections

Sosei Heptares and AbbVie enter second collaboration targeting neurological diseases

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