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News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Sosei Heptares and Lilly enter agreement on diabetes and metabolic diseases

Sosei Group Corporation has entered a drug discovery collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company to discover, develop and commercialize small molecules that modulate novel G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets associated with diabetes and metabolic diseases. The agreement will leverage Sosei Heptares’ StaR technology and structure-based drug design (SBDD) platform and Lilly’s drug development and commercialization […]

December 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

Charcot-Marie-Tooth study to get $250K grant

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Research Foundation (CMTRF) have announced joint funding for a study by Alessandra Bolino at San Raffaele Hospital (Ospedale San Raffaele), Italy, on restoring membrane trafficking in Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathies with aberrant myelin. This will be a three-year study, with the grant totaling $263,450. “We at the Muscular Dystrophy […]

December 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

Solve Therapeutics launches to tackle cancer

Solve Therapeutics, Inc. (SolveTx), an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, has launched with the mission of developing novel antibody-based therapies targeting tumor-specific antigens. The company’s formation reunites the former VelosBio Inc. team. SolveTx is fully operational with more than 25 employees and is actively pursuing discovery and development efforts at its 10,000-square-foot laboratory in San Diego. Solve […]

December 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Replay targets genetic brain disorders with new gene therapy company, Kaleibe

Replay, a genome writing company, today announced the launch of Kaleibe, an HSV gene therapy company targeting genetic brain disorders. It is the third of Replay’s product companies to launch since the company’s formation in July and will leverage Replay’s high payload capacity herpes simplex virus (HSV) delivery vector, synHSV, to target genetic brain disorders. […]

December 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Startup USSF bringing oral COVID vaccine to market

From a small biotech start-up firm in Allentown, Pennsylvania, two scientists are leading their team to bring an oral COVID-19 vaccine to market – one that will be easier to use, longer lasting and with fewer side effects. Kyle Flanigan and Garry Morefield co-founded US Specialty Formulations LLC (USSF) through discussions while watching their daughters […]

December 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

How biotech startups can innovate through embracing applied research

By Kathleen Lee, director of the Arizona WearTech Applied Research Center Innovation is about breaking new ground and forging new pathways to confront societal issues and solve problems. Many startup companies, especially in the biotech industries, are working towards finding solutions to some of these most complex problems. All solutions start as mere ideas, and […]

December 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 13 Dec 2022

Therabest and Glycotope to assess breast cancer combination treatment

Therabest USA. Inc, Therabest Korea and Glycotope GmbH have signed an agreement to assess the clinical development of Therabest’s EiNK (enhanced iPSC-derived NK) cell therapy, TB-100, in combination with Glycotope’s immuno-cytokine, GT-00AxIL15 in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. NK (natural killer) cell therapies from various cell sources have demonstrated exciting results in early clinical trials […]

December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Dec 2022

Vevo Therapeutics launches with $12M to ‘discover better drugs’

Vevo Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using its Mosaic in vivo drug discovery platform and next generation AI models to uncover better drugs for more patients, has launched with an oversubscribed and upsized $12 million seed financing round. Wing Venture Capital and General Catalyst co-led the round with participation from Mubadala Capital, AIX Ventures, and Camford […]

December 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Dec 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 25: Center for Global Development, Humacyte, Transgene

This week, we have three interviews. One is from Bio-Europe, a chat with Transgene chief business officer, Steven Bloom, and we also have conversations with Humacyte CEO Laura Niklason, and with Anthony McDonnell, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Global Development, on the subject of antimicrobial resistance. We also have our weekly commentary from […]

December 9, 2022

News and Trends 8 Dec 2022

DNA repair mechanism study could boost cancer treatment

A better understanding of the mechanisms involved in DNA repair may pave the way for developing inhibitors to improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy. Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a critical DNA repair pathway that plays a key role in maintaining transcription and genome integrity by removing bulky DNA lesions. The key steps in the […]

December 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

Apogee Therapeutics raises $169M to tackle immunological and inflammatory disorders

Apogee Therapeutics, LLC, a biotech company advancing novel, potentially best-in-class therapies to address immunological and inflammatory disorders, has announced the closing of a $149 million Series B financing. Proceeds will be used to support Apogee’s plans to advance its lead pipeline program into the clinic in 2023 and expand the leadership, scientific, and clinical teams […]

December 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

PacBio and Boston Children’s Hospital to study genome to benefit patients

PacBio, a developer of sequencing solutions, says its HiFi sequencing technology will be used in a pilot project for the Children’s Rare Disease Cohorts Initiative (CRDC) at Boston Children’s Hospital in the U.S. Boston Children’s Hospital researchers will use HiFi whole-genome sequencing (HiFi WGS) for the purpose of investigating genetic and epigenetic variants associated with […]

December 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Sosei Heptares and Lilly enter agreement on diabetes and metabolic diseases

Charcot-Marie-Tooth study to get $250K grant

Solve Therapeutics launches to tackle cancer

Replay targets genetic brain disorders with new gene therapy company, Kaleibe

Startup USSF bringing oral COVID vaccine to market

How biotech startups can innovate through embracing applied research

Therabest and Glycotope to assess breast cancer combination treatment

Vevo Therapeutics launches with $12M to ‘discover better drugs’

Beyond Biotech podcast 25: Center for Global Development, Humacyte, Transgene

DNA repair mechanism study could boost cancer treatment

Apogee Therapeutics raises $169M to tackle immunological and inflammatory disorders

PacBio and Boston Children’s Hospital to study genome to benefit patients

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