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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

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

New discovery gives hope in fight against metastatic cancer

Cancer that splits and develops in new organs around the body becomes significantly more difficult to fight. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that these metastatic cancers, which spread from the original, adapt their metabolism to the tissue in which they grow. The discovery represents a breakthrough for the understanding of metastatic […]

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 23: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, PsychoGenics

This week, we have three interviews on the theme of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), to mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. We spoke with Holger Zimmermann, CEO of anti-infectives company AiCuris; Neil Clark, CEO of Destiny Pharma, and Fredrik Almqvist, co-founder of QureTech Bio. We also have an interview with the chief scientific officer at PsychoGenics, Mark Varney. […]

November 18, 2022

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu recommended for approval

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been recommended for approval in the European Union (EU) for patients previously treated HER-2 positive advanced gastric cancer. The drug is also used for gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma who have received a prior trastuzumab-based regimen. Enhertu is a specifically engineered HER2-directed antibody drug conjugate (ADC) being jointly developed and commercialized by AstraZeneca […]

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

Ascletis announces IND approval for treatment of advanced solid tumors

Ascletis Pharma has announced the approval of the investigational new drug (IND) application by China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). The approval is for an in-house developed oral PD-L1 small molecule inhibitor prodrug, ASC61, for the treatment of advanced solid tumors. The ASC61 phase 1 dose escalation study is ongoing in the U.S. IND approval […]

November 17, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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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

New discovery gives hope in fight against metastatic cancer

Beyond Biotech podcast 23: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, PsychoGenics

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu recommended for approval

Ascletis announces IND approval for treatment of advanced solid tumors

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