Olivia Vizier

Our plan to achieve sustainability as a business practice in the coming years lies within Calliditas’ strategy to execute on our vision to efficiently expand, develop, and market our pipeline of innovative medicines targeting rare diseases that have the potential to improve the lives of patients with

At Xalud, we’re developing a non-viral plasmid DNA platform that has the potential to change the paradigm in chronic inflammatory diseases by creating a gene therapy for the masses and not just for rare diseases. We have a pipeline with broad potential for our proprietary platform, including several programs in development, and we look forward

But in 2019, he walked away from all of that to become the founder and CEO of Alto Neuroscience, which the company said is “pioneering an approach to psychiatric drug development which matches the right patient with the right Alto drug based on AI-derived brain biomarkers.”

Teclison has developed platform technology that chokes off tumors and activates the immune system against the cancer.

That’s why Yoav Kimchy, Founder and CTO of Check-Cap, launched the company in 2005 with the goal of creating a technology that could make colorectal screenings easier and less invasive for patients.

“We’ve hit the wall in terms of how much more we can leverage an antibody,” says David Apelian, MD, PhD. As the CEO of BlueSphere Bio, Apelian is more than willing to consider alternatives to antibodies. Indeed, BlueSphere is interested in developing therapies that rely on T-cell receptors (TCRs). The company is already using TCR

Araris Biotech AG secured $24 million in financing to advance the development of its proprietary antibody-drug conjugate-linker technology and drive its own ADC candidates into the clinic.

IMV is evaluating DPX-based assets in several clinical trials in difficult-to-treat cancer indications, including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), ovarian, breast, and bladder cancer. Previous studies have shown encouraging results, notably in pa­tients who have failed on prior lines of therapy. MVP-S is the clinical validation and proof of concept of the DPX platform’s potential

“Continued innovation in both conventional and next-generation protein therapeutics, cell and gene therapies, RNA- and DNA-based treatments, and vaccine technologies is driving demand for fill/finish capacity,” says Ping-Yang Yeh, president of AltruBio Taiwan, a subsidiary of AltruBio, Inc.

Mattes says there isn’t an official founding date for TFF Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ TFFP) as the company sprung from another Austin-based organization known as Lung Therapeutics circa 2017.

A unique approach to pediatric glioma treatment comes from EMulate Therapeutics, a clinical-stage therapeutic device company. EMulate’s proprietary platform uses ultra-low radio frequency energy (ulRFE®) to record and replay a molecule’s digital fingerprint.

The fluorescent orange sticker atop the white machine reads “BIOHAZARD,” but it’s a bit of a misnomer. Although Earth abounds with pathogens that can maim, kill, paralyze, and poison, the specimens inside this machine — being pipetted left and right behind glass for sequencing — are probably the most innocuous human viruses you will ever

In another advance, IMV Inc. recently announced positive data in metastatic bladder cancer patients using its cancer vaccine, Maveropepimut-S (MVP-S) – also known as DPX-Survivac.

BlueSphere Bio presented a poster describing its TCXpress and iTCXpress high-through platforms for TCRs.

The day you’ve been waiting for has arrived. It’s time to meet the 2022 honorees of the BostInno Fire Awards.

What patients say they are feeling is also a possible source of confusion. Amit Etkin, the CEO of Alto Neuroscience, points out that in Asia the symptoms that Western psychiatry uses to diagnose depression—low moo

Michelle Mellion, M.D., newly-appointed SVP and head of clinical development at PepGen, began her career working to deliver the best possible to care to patients and education to medical students. Now she is working to ensure the patient’s voice is heard throughout the drug development process.

More than two years after Pfizer tied the knot with machine learning firm CytoReason in an AI-focused deal, the two companies have agreed to keep the partnership alive for at least five more years.

NEW YORK – Elicio Therapeutics said Tuesday that it received a $2.8 million grant from the Gastro-Intestinal Research Foundation in Chicago that it will use to develop two cancer vaccines.

Experts from Umoja Biopharma dive into cell therapy development in this episode of the Drug Solutions Podcast, including the greatest advancements in cell therapy to date, areas for improvement, the biggest trends in cell therapy development, and retention as a pain point.

The Founder of the Sepsis Alliance, Carl Flatley, is on a mission to raise awareness for sepsis, and he is doing so by riding his bike across the state of Florida to honor his daughter, Erin, who passed away because of sepsis.

We’re developing a pipeline of innovative precision therapies to improve the lives of patients and families battling genetically-driven cardiovascular and mechanistically-related diseases. Our lead program, REN-001, is being developed for BAG3-associated dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and uses gene transfer technology to address the monogenic cause of this severe form of heart failure.

In July, SOTIO Biotech launched an aggressive phase 2 basket trial of its lead candidate, the IL-15-targeting SOT101, as monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in patients with selected relapsed/refractory advanced/metastatic solid tumors.

Etkin explains that in the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain—are systems responsible for a number of higher functions, including cognitive functions like planning,

Ashvattha Therapeutics today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in a two-stage Phase 2 clinical study of D-4517.2, an HDT with potent anti-VEGF activity.

Unlike many CFOs who tell us that their finance career paths did not intersect with the investor relations (IR) function until shortly before their arrival in the CFO office, Chuck Triano relates that his actually began inside the IR function.

As CEO of Portage Biotech, a clinical-stage company, Walters and his team are following a potentially disruptive scientific path to advance first-in-class immunotherapies that elevate or initiate the immune response across a range of cancer types.

Kathy Lee-Sepsick, the founder of Femasys, is determined to change the game in long-neglected areas of women’s healthcare, some of which haven’t had much innovation in more than a century.

A Navy veteran, former marathon runner, and father from Florida is riding to raise money for a deadly condition. He founded the group 20 years ago after his 23 year old daughter tragically died from sepsis. Carl Flatley traveled more than 200 miles and raised $35,000 last year. This year he has bigger goals.

Cell therapy is coming into its own as an effective therapeutic avenue for cancer. Into that fray in November 2019 launched Umoja Biopharma, whose unique immunotherapy approach aims to re-engineer a patient’s own immune system in vivo to attack and destroy hematologic and solid organ-based tumors.