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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, August 10, 2021 — Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNX), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapeutics for rare endocrine diseases and endocrine-related tumors, today announced positive preliminary findings from the single ascending dose (SAD) portion of a first-in-human Phase 1…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Sorrento to obtain exclusive rights in North and South America, Europe, major Asian countries (including Greater China and Japan) and certain other countries to utilize Dyadic’s C1 technology for the development and commercialization of vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, protein therapeutics, and diagnostics for coronaviruses, including DYAI-100, Dyadic’s lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Dyadic’s lead COVID-19 Vaccine, DYAI-100,…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Indapta Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing and commercializing an NK (natural killer) cell therapy platform for the treatment of blood cancers and solid tumors, today announced the publication of new preclinical data in Blood Advances demonstrating Indapta’s proprietary allogeneic FcεRIγ-deficient G-NK cells in combination with an FDA-approved monoclonal antibody…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Moderna Inc. plans to double enrollment in a trial of its Covid vaccine in children under age 12, following a request from U.S. regulators to collect additional safety data. Moderna’s study will enroll an estimated 13,275 participants ages 6 months up to 12 years old, according to a listing on the clinicaltrials.gov website. In a…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Despite representing roughly 12% of the U.S. adult population, in biopharma, Black professionals account for just 7% of the total workforce and 3% of executive teams. Today, in an initiative designed to increase access to and awareness of the biopharma industry among Black talent and build a diverse talent…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (Otsuka), a subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., announces that it has been awarded a grant for up to $17.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This will enable Otsuka to advance clinical trials of its investigational compound OPC-167832, in…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ/TSX: TRIL), a clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer, today announced that it has dosed the first TP53-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient with TTI-622 (SIRPα-IgG4 Fc), an investigational checkpoint inhibitor of the innate immune…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced it has updated its Applied Biosystems TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Panel to detect the Delta and Lambda strains. First launched in March 2021, the research panel features a customizable menu of verified real-time PCR assays for identification of…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Verseon today announced that VE-4840 will advance as the company’s primary diabetic retinopathy (DR) development candidate after it passed preliminary toxicology studies. Orally administered VE-4840 has also demonstrated significant reduction of diabetes-induced retinal vascular permeability (RVP) in vivo. These results, along with its excellent oral pharmacokinetics…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, Aug. 5, 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 oncology, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced new and updated data from the ORIENT-11…
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