At Advanced Therapies Europe 2023, BioPharma Reporter caught up with ScaleReady's Jenny Stjernberg to discuss her work at the biotech company, her journey from academia to commercial and female representation in the cell and gene therapies industry....
A new approach to discovering targets for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases has been presented by Insilico Medicine with the University of Cambridge, UK.
Patients with a rare and incurable blood cancer, associated with an overproduction of blood cells, will soon have access to a small molecule Novartis treatment.
Mural Health Technologies, Inc. has raised $8 million in seed funding for the growth of its Mural link platform it says is aimed at ‘modernizing the clinical trial experience for both patients and caregivers’.
Built upon seven years of real-world patient journey data, Belong.Life has recently announced the launch of its software as a service (SaaS)-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) cancer clinical trial matching platform.
This week's woman in science, is Maria Pereira, who leads the Innovation Hub at TISSIUM, a Paris-based medtech startup that develops solutions for tissue reconstruction.
Qunaterix' LucentAD test could reveal whether a person is likely to have Alzheimer's Disease or not. In an interview with company CEO, Masoud Toloue, he explains the science and motivation behind the test.
The Japanese firm Astellas Pharma will apply for planning permission to construct a drug manufacturing facility in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland worth around €330 million ($352 million).
The small molecule drug Ojjaara (momelotinib), developed by GlaxoSmithKline, has become the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatment for patients with the blood cancer myelofibrosis and anemia.
The French-U.S. company Novadiscovery has hailed a “watershed moment for clinical trial design” as its trial simulation tool successfully predicted the outcome of a phase 3 oncology trial run by AstraZeneca.
The U.S. company Rome Therapeutics plans to use the proceeds of its $72 million Series B round to take an experimental autoimmune disease treatment through early clinical testing.
A partnership deal between the Dutch digital health company Congenica and clinical trial platform provider myTomorrows will see the companies pooling their technologies to help more patients receive precision oncology treatments.
Insilico Medicine is due to receive $80 million upfront plus potential milestone payments as Exelixis gains global rights to develop and commercialize the Hong Kong firm’s small molecule cancer treatment.
The AstraZeneca-owned company Alexion has teamed up with Verge Genomics to deploy the U.S. startup’s drug discovery platform in the search for novel drug targets for rare neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases.
An oral treatment, developed by the U.S. company Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has shown promise as an alternative to injected therapies for tackling the rare disease acromegaly in a phase 3 trial.
HumanFirst, a cloud-based software company accelerating patient-centered drug development through AI, has announced the launch of its precision measures platform.
Glasgow diagnostics spinout Microplate Dx has closed a £2.5 million seed funding round to develop its point-of-care diagnostic platform, which can confirm the presence of bacteria and rapidly identify effective antibiotics to use and which ones to avoid....
The U.S. company Nimbus Therapeutics has raised $210 million in a financing round to fund the development of small molecule drugs powered by computational drug discovery.
A benchtop DNA sequencer developed by the U.S. DNA sequencing company Element Biosciences, Inc., has seen sales grow by triple digits and has received more than 100 orders since its launch in March 2022.
The UK organ-on-a-chip (OOC) company CN Bio has teamed up with LifeNet Health LifeSciences to gain access to the non-profit tissue bank’s validated human cells for use in organ models for life sciences research.
The UK startup Intelligent OMICS (Intellomx) has launched a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical company Janssen to use artificial intelligence (AI) to discover drug targets for the treatment of blood cancer.
Less than a month after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its antidepressant drug zuranolone (Zurzuvae) a mixed welcome, Sage Therapeutics has launched plans to reorganize its operations by refocusing its drug development efforts and laying...
The small molecule drug alectinib (Alecensa) developed by the big pharma company Roche has improved disease-free survival in patients with a specific form of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) when delivered as an adjuvant therapy in a phase 3 trial.
Andrew MacGarvey is chief operating officer (COO) of Phastar. We caught up with him earlier in the summer at DIA Global in Boston to discuss the company’s origins, opportunities for big analytical data DCTs, artificial intelligence and machine learning...
More people are talking about mental illness than ever before. However, despite increased awareness, it remains one of the most neglected areas of public health globally, with research and quality of care lagging behind physical health conditions.
With more than 63 biopharma companies attending and 15 event partners sharing solutions, the 7th Annual IPF Summit being held in Boston next month (September 2023) is not to be missed.
FORE Biotherapeutics yesterday (August 23) announced the closing of its $75 million (£59 million) series D financing, led by the SR One and co-led by Medicxi and joined by existing investors.
With so many advanced therapies on the horizon, the next few years are poised to be one of significant progress for patients with over 2000 cell and gene therapies in active clinical trials globally.
Actimed Therapeutics Ltd will put some of its additional funding of £4.75 million ($6 million) towards its attempt to provide the world’s first cure for cancer cachexia.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given orphan drug designation (ODD) to Redx’s Zelasudil for the potential treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
A kidney disease drug with a ‘durable and clinically meaningful impact on kidney function’ has been granted priority review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted marketing authorizations for Pombliti + Opfolda, a two-component therapy to treat Pompe disease.
Integrated drug formulation and clinical trials company, BDD Pharma, will be expanding its phase appropriate development, manufacturing, and clinical testing services after a £2 million ($1.3 million) investment.
Rohit Nambisam is CEO of Lokavant, OSP caught up with him at DIA Global in Boston earlier this summer to find out more about him and the work he is passionate about.
OSP discussed going beyond industry sponsors and how to support both patients and centers through clincal trial design with Erin Leckrone, senior director, clinical trials and Kathleen Kane, senior manager, clinical operations, at Be The Match BioTherapies....
The first patient has been dosed with an orally available small molecule cancer immunotherapy drug, Sosei Group Corporation and Cancer Research UK have announced.
Healthcare technology company Koneska is extending its contribution to critical neuroscience research by collaborating with an academic partnership program.
A partnership between technology company Fluree and Vitality TechNet is a ‘groundbreaking effort’ to shorten timelines within the drug discovery process.
Calliditas Therapeutics AB’s phase 3 study looking at a cure for a kidney disease called IgA nephropathy (IgAN) has met its primary endpoint and the full data has been published in The Lancet.
Patients suffering from catheter-related bloodstream infections could be treated with Citius Pharmaceuticals antibiotic lock solution after it achieved 92 milestone events in its phase 3 trial.
Chronic hives could be treated effectively, conveniently, and rapidly after positive results from a clinical trial by Novartis produced positive top line results.
