The drug discovery and preclinical services company has moved its US office to Kendall Square as it looks to ‘sustainably grow’ its US presence and increase sales in the coming years, says SVP.
Increasingly complex clinical trials are putting pressure on CROs to expand their service offerings in what has been a historically monolithic space – with diagnostics also continuing to play a more important role in the market, says industry expert.
The last month of summer saw several hires, including a lead for Worldwide Clinical Trials’ Japan operations, CEO appointments at CordenPharma and LabConnect, and Altasciences’ new CSO, who joins the company from Syneos.
908 Devices launches Rebel, a bioprocess analyzer, enabling researchers to conduct their own cell culture media analysis to accelerate process development ‘by weeks’.
NHS GDE Trust Worcestershire Health and Care collaborates with Clinithink to better manage its clinical data through the latter’s ‘natural language processing’ platform.
Researchers develop organ-on-an-electronic-chip platform to explore the electrophysiology of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and understand how the heart communicates.
Themis obtains an exclusive licence from Merck to develop vaccine candidates with an undisclosed indication, using its measles virus vector-based platform.
As summer heated up, the pharmaceutical industry saw major developments in preclinical models from new software to 3D-printed tissue, all in the name of drug development.
Researchers show miniature livers can develop steatohepatitis and fibrosis, pointing to potential for personalized hepatic drug discovery and toxicity platforms.
Schrödinger secures further funding, extends collaboration with Morphic Therapeutic on computational discovery platform for oral integrin drugs for the second time.
Engineered cardiac tissues generated using Tara Biosystems' heart-on-a-chip system predict how patients will respond to a range of drugs, as demonstrated in a recent study with GSK.
