- | Omega Therapeutics
After an obesity deal with Novo, Omega’s new business head is on the hunt for more partners
With the stakes raised, enter Kaan Certel, Omega’s new chief business officer who joined the team at the end of May, and is focused on forging new partnerships for the company.
- | Aphaia Pharma
Aphaia hits primary endpoint with oral glucose drug in mid-stage prediabetes trial
The idea behind Aphaia Pharma is to treat metabolic disease early enough that patients don’t progress to a type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
- | Tessera Therapeutics
Tessera Therapeutics: addressing Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
At Tessera, we are building a broad toolkit of Gene Writers™ to therapeutically edit the genome. Our RNA Gene Writers are designed to efficiently introduce a range of genomic changes from small nucleotide substitutions to exon or gene-sized fragments using all‑RNA compositions.
- | Profound Therapeutics
Pfizer to partner with Flagship on obesity drugs
Flagship and one of the companies it founded, ProFound Therapeutics, said today they’ve agreed to identify new obesity treatments in a collaboration with Pfizer.
- | Y-mAbs Therapeutics
Precision Radiation Opens a New Window on Cancer Therapy
Y-mAbs’ Lu-177-based disialoganglioside GD2-targeting program is in phase 1 for small cell lung cancer, melanoma and sarcomas to determine treatment dose, sequence and spacing.
- | Elixirgen Therapeutics
Developing an mRNA Therapy for DMD with Elixirgen Therapeutics’ Aki Ko on Apple Podcasts
Elixirgen Therapeutics’ Aki Ko joins Erin Harris to detail the company’s Bobcat mRNA therapeutic and how it differs from traditional exon-skipping drugs and AAV-microdystrophin in treating DMD. Regarding delivery, Ko explains the advantage of the mRNA approach over the AAV approach.
- | Recce Pharmaceuticals
Recce Pharmaceuticals’ synthetic approach to combatting AMR
Australian biotech Recce Pharmaceuticals is paving the way for a new class of synthetic anti-infectives and providing hope for those with resistant infections.
- | COUR Pharmaceuticals
Treating immune-mediated diseases with nanoparticles
COUR nanoparticles (CNPs) induce antigen-specific immune tolerance by harnessing the body’s peripheral immune system.