Olivia Vizier

Gain Therapeutics has priced its initial public offering, raising more than $40 million for its computational drug discovery platform and pipeline of drugs for diseases associated with protein misfolding. 

Pyxis CEO Lara Sullivan has struck a deal with her former employer, Pfizer, that adds two preclinical therapies to the biotech’s pipeline as well as a license to the pharma’s ADC platform. 

The Japanese company put down another marker in the disease today by teaming up with the private Israeli company Anima Biotech, in a transaction worth $120m up front.

New Orleans-based Revolo Biotherapeutics, formerly known as Immune Regulation, rebranded to reflect its revolutionary scientific approach to dramatically alter the autoimmune and allergic disease treatment landscape.

Anima Biotech’s strategic collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical, just announced today, uses its novel platform for discovery of mRNA translation modulators to discover and develop a new class of therapies for neurological diseases.

The next generation of COVID-19 vaccines will not only tackle viral variants but also provide solutions across the globe at a fraction of the cost.

Biotech company Valneva is manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine at its plant in West Lothian, which is currently going through clinical trials.

SOTIO — highlighted a variety of ways the industry could address the high cost of making these therapies. Despite the fact each of these experts is focused on different types of cell therapies (allogenic and/or autologous) and therapeutic indications, their mindset was strikingly aligned around just how innovative a simplified C&G therapy manufacturing process would

If you’re not a fan of needles, how about a vaccine you take with a glass of water? That’s what San Francisco biotechnology company Vaxart is working on.

Acepodia closed its Series B round Tuesday morning, hoping to build upon CEO Sonny Hsiao’s work from when he was a biologist at UC Berkeley. The biotech plans to use the funds to advance its lead program through the end of a Phase I trial and launch a Phase II study, as well as to

A relevant topic in the healthcare space that has arisen amid the COVID-19 pandemic is the alarming drop in cancer screening rates globally due to limited access of patients to hospitals settings and cancellations of non-elective procedures, which will inevitably result in increased cancer deaths in coming years. The pandemic has reemphasized the relevance of

Only four years after its foundation, Acepodia Inc. raised $47 million in a series B financing round. The funds will help the oncology company move its first cell therapy candidate to phase II trials, while expanding its research and development activities with other products from its tech platform.

California-based CalciMedica closed a Series D round on Thursday to advance its portfolio of calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) inhibitors, including Auxora, which is being tested in both Covid-19 and acute pancreatitis patients.

The push abroad raises fresh concerns over clinical trials exploiting economically developing nations. Vaxart, maker of a potential Covid vaccine that comes in tablet form, is gearing up for a Phase II trial. The company plans to consult foreign ministries of health and ethics committees to set up ethical trials. That might include a crossover study that

Mark Mortenson, CSO of Clene Nanomedicine, discusses the use of proprietary gold nanocrystals as catalysts to prevent the progression of, and act as a treatment for, neurodegenerative disease.

Sotio’s cell platform, called DCVAC, starts with a patient’s peripheral blood mononuclear cells, which are grown into dendritic cells (DCs). In parallel, the company uses a proprietary device to pressurize tumor cells from cell lines, and the right amount of HHP makes the cells more immunogenic. The company picks “cell lines with expression profiles that

As the superbug crisis heats up around the world, Scynexis says it has new data from two interim analyses that prove its antifungal has the potential to treat a broad range of infections.

X4 Pharmaceuticals is developing a class of small molecule therapeutics that work as antagonists of chemokine receptor, CXCR4, the disruption of which is implicated in a number of primary immunodeficiencies (PIs) and cancers.

That’s the question a new biotech is aiming to answer, as SalioGen Therapeutics emerges from stealth Monday morning with a $20 million Series A. And they believe they’ve found a new delivery system that can more precisely deliver genes in vivo than the relatively large adeno-associated virus or CRISPR system: mammalian-derived enzymes.

Cidara Therapeutics is exploring echinocandin derivatives. The company’s clinical candidate rezafungin is a derivative of anidulafungin, a compound originally discovered at Eli Lilly and Company and currently marketed by Pfizer. Chemists placed a choline group at a critical point on the molecule, a feature that stabilizes the echinocandin ring and prevents metabolic breakdown of the molecule,

Sio Gene Therapies’ AXO-AAV-GM1 and Passage Bio’s PBGM01 – are due to yield data in mid-2021, and Lysogene is not too far behind with LYS-GM101. Within the next year there will be a chance to see how the projects stack up against each other in the clinic. Sio, formerly known as Axovant, is in the lead for

As part of the change in direction, Fore has appointed Usama Malik as CEO, a former key player at Immunomedics during their $21 billion acquisition by Gilead.Though they have made the full turn toward therapeutics, Fore’s business model does not focus on drug discovery, Malik told Endpoints News. Rather, the company is planning to utilize

NovellusDx started out as a diagnostics company but has been making moves toward becoming a cancer therapeutics biotech in recent months, picking up a BRAF drug from Daiichi Sankyo and raising $57 million to shepherd it through the clinic. Now, it’s wrapping its transformation up with a new name and a new CEO: Fore Biotherapeutics

French company Valneva, meanwhile, is working on an inactivated vaccine using the whole virus that might have advantages over those already approved, Thomas Lingelbach, the company’s chief executive officer, says. Because it uses the complete virus, the Valneva vaccine enables the immune system to potentially form a response to all possible epitopes—a term for the

Chinese pharma powerhouse Hansoh has a new partner, teaming with the New Jersey biotech Scynexis to develop a drug that has recently gained attention for its potential to treat drug resistant and difficult-to-treat infections, including a particular form of fungus.

In this article, Ian Chan, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of biotech company Abpro, discusses the development of neutralising antibodies for SARS-CoV-2. Abpro’s neutralising antibody candidate ABP 300 is currently in Phase II/III trials.