Biotechnology

eGenesis Announces World’s First Successful Transplant of Genetically Engineered Porcine Kidney in a Living Patient

04/01/2024

– Marks historic milestone and opens new frontier in transplantation to address kidney shortage affecting millions of patients globally – Transplant was conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and authorized by the U.S. FDA under a single Expanded Access protocol Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–eGenesis, a biotechnology company developing human-compatible engineered organs to…

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SOPHiA GENETICS and The French Kidney Cancer Research Network (UroCCR) Publish Results from Multiyear Collaboration

03/21/2024

New Multimodal Algorithm Highlights Predictive Benefit Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cancer Research Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON and ROLLE, Switzerland, March 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), a cloud-native software company and a leader in data-driven medicine, and the French Kidney Cancer Research Network (UroCCR) collaborated on a study using a multimodal…

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New Positive Data Presented on Briquilimab Conditioning in Patients with Fanconi Anemia

03/19/2024

Excerpt from the Press Release: REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Jasper Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: JSPR) (Jasper), a biotechnology company focused on development of briquilimab, a novel antibody therapy targeting c-Kit (CD117) to address mast cell driven diseases such as chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) and chronic inducible urticaria (CIndU), announced additional positive…

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Sonnet BioTherapeutics Announces Early Safety Data from the Company’s Phase 1b/2a Clinical Trial of SON-080 in Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN) Met the Study’s Initial Pre-Specified Objective

03/15/2024

Excerpt from the Press Release: PRINCETON, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / March 11, 2024 / Sonnet BioTherapeutics Holdings, Inc. (“Sonnet” or the “Company”), (NASDAQ:SONN) a clinical-stage company developing targeted immunotherapeutic drugs, announced today that the first Phase 1b/2a clinical trial of SON-080 was cleared to proceed to Phase 2 after review by the independent DSMB. This…

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Cardiff Oncology Provides Clinical Update on Phase 2 Randomized Second-line ONSEMBLE Trial in Patients with RAS-mutated mCRC

03/05/2024

– New clinical data from second-line randomized ONSEMBLE trial provides further evidence of the efficacy of onvansertib in combination with FOLFIRI/bev in bev naïve RAS-mutated mCRC patients – – Company discontinued the ONSEMBLE trial in August 2023 to shift focus of clinical development program to first-line RAS-mutated mCRC in agreement with the FDA – Excerpt…

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Cogent Biosciences Announces Positive Part 1b Data from SUMMIT Trial Evaluating Bezuclastinib in Patients with Nonadvanced Systemic Mastocytosis

02/29/2024

Registration-enabling SUMMIT Part 2 initiated and actively enrolling at 40 sites globally; RP2D selected at 100 mg once-daily optimized formulation based on: Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass. and BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cogent Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: COGT), a biotechnology company focused on developing precision therapies for genetically defined diseases, today…

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Ocugen, Inc. Announces Dosing Completion of Subjects with Stargardt in Cohort 1 of Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of OCU410ST

02/28/2024

Excerpt from the Press Release: MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ocugen, Inc. (“Ocugen” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: OCGN), a biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel gene and cell therapies and vaccines, today announced that dosing is complete in the first cohort of its Phase 1/2 GARDian clinical trial for…

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Pasithea Therapeutics Announces Opening of Enrollment in the U.S. for its Phase 1 Trial of PAS-004

02/20/2024

— Activation of four U.S. sites for Phase 1 clinical trial of PAS-004 to evaluate safety, dose, key biomarker data and preliminary efficacy — — Plans to open three additional sites in Eastern Europe in the coming months — — Preliminary interim data expected in 2H 2024 — Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN…

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Aviceda Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in Part 2 of the Phase 2/3 SIGLEC Clinical Trial Assessing AVD-104 for the Treatment of Geographic Atrophy

02/08/2024

Part 2 of the Phase 2/3 SIGLEC clinical trial is designed and powered to serve as the first pivotal trial to support approval of AVD-104 in geographic atrophy. Part 2 of SIGLEC is expected to enroll approximately 300 patients who will be randomly assigned to two arms of AVD-104 or active comparator (avacincaptad pegol) and…

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Intellia Therapeutics Announces Publication of Positive Interim Phase 1 Data for NTLA-2002 in Patients with Hereditary Angioedema in the New England Journal of Medicine

02/07/2024

Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTLA), a leading clinical-stage gene editing company focused on revolutionizing medicine with CRISPR-based therapies, today announced that interim results from the Phase 1 portion of the Phase 1/2 study of NTLA-2002 were published online in the New England Journal of…

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