Announcements
Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, Nov. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, today announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China has accepted the supplemental New Drug Application…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Neurona Therapeutics, a biotherapeutics company advancing restorative neural cell therapies for the treatment of chronic neurological disorders, today announced that it has received clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a first-in-human…
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– Data show ability to rescue cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) function using proprietary lipid nanoparticle (LNP) platform to deliver optimized CFTR mRNA as an aerosol to patient-derived human bronchial epithelial cells – Optimized LNP formulation delivered mRNA to therapeutically relevant lung secretory and basal cells Excerpt from the Press Release: MENLO PARK, Calif. & DALLAS–(BUSINESS…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ambrx Biopharma Inc., or Ambrx, (NYSE: AMAM), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company using an expanded genetic code technology platform to create Engineered Precision Biologics, today announced the first patient has been dosed in its global ACE-Breast-03 Phase 2 clinical study of ARX788 in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Data from 10,000 individuals affected by SARS-CoV-2 will be used to identify biomarkers that can help predict potential risk of serious disease and support the development of novel therapeutics to combat COVID-19 SAN DIEGO, Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that its world-class sequencing and bioinformatics solutions…
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Kezar Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 1 Trial of KZR-261 in Advanced Solid Tumor Malignancies
Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kezar Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: KZR), a clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing breakthrough treatments for immune-mediated and oncologic disorders, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in KZR-261-101, a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating KZR-261, a novel, broad-spectrum, anti-tumor agent that acts through direct…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — DiaCarta Inc., a precision molecular diagnostics company and leading developer of novel oncology tests using liquid biopsy, today announced the publication of a study in PLOS ONE that demonstrates that DiaCarta’s ColoScape™ Xenonucleic Acid (XNA)-mediated quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions (qPCR) clamping assay detects mutant cell-free DNA (cfDNA)…
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Een life science trailblazers under the age of 40 recognized across California Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & LOS ANGELES & SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Biocom California, the association representing the California life science industry, today announced the winners of its sixth annual Life Science Catalyst Awards. The awards celebrate the accomplished and up-and-coming…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SHENZHEN, China and BOSTON, Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Signet Therapeutics and XtalPi Inc., a physics-based, AI-powered drug R&D company, announced the expansion of their AI drug discovery collaboration to include a new first-in-class program against a novel cancer target identified by Signet. The two companies entered into a strategic collaboration in 2020 and…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: NEEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CADL), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel oncolytic viral immunotherapies, today announced that data on patient-reported tolerability assessment of intraprostatic injections will be presented in a virtual poster session at the 28th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat. Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021 Presenter: Laura K. Aguilar, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer at…
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