Month: August 2022

CureVac Starts Phase 1 Clinical Study of Modified, Omicron-Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

08/26/2022

Phase 1 dose-escalation study to be conducted at clinical sites in the U.S., the UK, Australia, and the Philippines Milestone demonstrates CureVac’s continued execution on comprehensive clinical program of second-generation vaccine candidates for infectious diseases Excerpt from the Press Release: TÜBINGEN, GERMANY and BOSTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / August 18, 2022 / CureVac N.V. (Nasdaq:CVAC),…

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Cellarity Releases Novel, Open-Source, Single-Cell Dataset and Invites the Machine Learning and Computational Biology Communities to Develop New Algorithms Capable of Learning Fundamental Rules of Cell Behavio

08/26/2022

The dataset will be publicly available for a Kaggle competition presented at NeurIPS 2022 hosted by Open Problems in Single-Cell Analysis in collaboration with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Yale University, and Helmholtz Munich Excerpt from the Press Release: SOMERVILLE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cellarity, a life sciences company founded by Flagship Pioneering to transform the way…

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CorDx Granted CE Mark for Two Monkeypox Diagnostic Tests

08/25/2022

Diagnostics enable the detection of the monkeypox virus in humans Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — CorDx, a global leader in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of diagnostics and medical devices, was recently granted a CE Mark certificate for two of the company’s monkeypox diagnostic tests. The CE Mark,…

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Arcturus Reports Durability Data Against Omicron Variants, Including BA.5, at Six-Month Timepoint Following Booster with ARCT-154 COVID-19 Vaccine

08/25/2022

New clinical data demonstrate high and sustained geometric mean fold rises (GMFR) in neutralizing antibodies against all evaluated Omicron variants Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (the “Company”, “Arcturus”, “Arcturus Therapeutics”, Nasdaq: ARCT), a global, late-stage clinical messenger RNA medicines company focused on the development of infectious disease vaccines and…

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MAPLIGHT THERAPEUTICS ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL FOR ML-007, A NOVEL THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DYSKINESIAS

08/25/2022

First in human study demonstrates positive safety and tolerability profile for MapLight’s M1/M4 muscarinic agonist therapy Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MapLight Therapeutics today announced it has completed its Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating ML-007, the second clinical compound developed using the MapLight platform. ML-007 is an M1/M4…

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Innovent Announces First Subject Dosed in Phase 1 Study of IBI311 (Anti-IGF-1R Monoclonal Antibody)

08/24/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Innovent Biologics, Inc. (“Innovent”) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, metabolic, autoimmune, ophthalmology and other major diseases, announces that the first healthy volunteer has been successfully dosed in…

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Valo Health Announces First Patient Dosed in the OPL-0401 Phase 2 study of an oral ROCK1/2 inhibitor for the Treatment of Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

08/23/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: Valo’s Opal Computational Platform™ being used to select a patient subset within non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy patients at high risk of progressing toward vision-threatening disease BOSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Valo Health, Inc. (“Valo”), the technology company focused on transforming the drug discovery and development process using human-centric data and…

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SpIntellx and iCura Diagnostics Partner to Expand Access to Advanced Spatial Analytics and Explainable AI Products for Pathology and Oncology Research

08/23/2022

SpIntellx, Inc., a leader in spatially intelligent biology, and iCura Diagnostics, a leading contract research organization (CRO) focused on capitalizing multiomic data to accelerate end-to-end clinical workflow solutions and biomarker discovery, today announced a partnership to transform precision oncology through unlocking the power of genomic, proteomics, and transcriptomic data using advanced spatial analytics. Excerpt from…

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Dermaliq Therapeutics announces first patient dosed in Phase 1b/2 trial evaluating DLQ02 for treatment of plaque psoriasis

08/23/2022

Excerpt from the Press Release: WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dermaliq Therapeutics, Inc. (Dermaliq), a private, clinical stage pharmaceutical company with a focus on dermatology, today announced first patient dosed in a Phase 1b/2a trial with DLQ02, a topical calcineurin inhibitor. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety, systemic absorption, pharmacodynamics, and clinical efficacy of DLQ02 in…

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Funding from Ontario Institute for Cancer Research to help move research from experiment to impact

08/22/2022

First round of Innovation to Implementation Supplement (I2IS) grants awarded to five promising research projects taking unique approaches to addressing cancer. Excerpt from the Press Release: August 11, 2022, TORONTO – Five Ontario-based research projects will take the next step toward advancing cancer care in the province thanks to funding from the Ontario Institute for…

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