
Kent County’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary to Open
Columbia Care is set to open Kent County’s first medical marijuana dispensary on Friday.

Treatments for the Growing Problem of Hearing Loss – Sensorion’s Nawal Ouzren

Brainstorm Considering Right To Try For ALS Therapy
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:BCLI) is considering offering NurOwn to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis under the recently enacted federal right-to-try law, BrainStorm President and CEO Chaim Lebovits told BioCentury.

Companies to Watch: Sensorion
Sensorion is a public company in France developing new medicines for diseases of the inner ear, with two compounds in the pipeline: SENS- 111 for treating acute unilateral vestibulopathy…

Is Hearing Loss a Necessary Price for Children to Pay for Life-Saving Chemotherapies
We spoke to Nawal Ouzren, CEO of Sensorion, which will participate in the FDA meeting and is developing a treatment for sudden hearing loss that may be able to help pediatric cancer patients experiencing cisplatin-induced ototoxicity.

Cancer Treatment Developer Rain Therapeutics Closes $18.4 Million Series A
Rain Therapeutics Inc., a Fremont, Calif.-based developer of small molecule therapeutics for patients with cancer, has secured $18.4 million in Series A funding. Biotechnology Value Fund led the round, with participation from investors including Perceptive Advisors and Auckland UniServices Ltd.’s Inventors Fund.
Rain Therapeutics nets $18M to push lung cancer asset into phase 2
Rain Therapeutics raised $18.4 million in series A funding, which will advance its lead program, a hypoxia-activated prodrug, in a population of patients with non-small cell lung cancer for whom there are no treatments.