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Excerpt from the Article: BC Children’s Hospital is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2020 BCCHR Studentships and Fellowships. These awards give exceptional trainees the opportunity to pursue leading-edge child health research projects under the supervision of BC Children’s Hospital Investigators. BCCHR Studentships and Fellowships are made possible through the support of BC Children’s…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Burlingame, CA, August 10, 2020 – Humanigen, Inc., (HGEN) (“Humanigen”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating cytokine storm with lenzilumab, the company’s proprietary Humaneered® anti-human granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) monoclonal antibody, announced that the Brazilian regulatory agency, Anvisa, has granted permission to commence a Phase…
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Excerpt from the article: Convalescent therapy has been touted as a fast, effective response to COVID-19, but a new therapy by GigaGen Inc. could be even more promising. GIGA-2050, a new class of drug called a recombinant hyperimmune, offers 100-fold higher potency than convalescent serum therapy. “GIGA-2050 is a mix of 12,500 different antibody sequences…
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Excerpt from the Article: “In April, San Diego’s Dexcom saw a slowdown in patients signing up for its continuous glucose monitors as consumers hunkered down and doctors transitioned to tele-medicine because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The question was how long would the dip last? As it turned out, not very long. As physicians and patients…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Samus Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held, biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule epichaperome inhibitors , today announced the presentation of safety and pharmacokinetic data from the Company’s recently completed PU-AD healthy volunteer Phase 1 study at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC 2020). PU-AD is Samus’…
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Excerpt from the Article: “San Diego start-up Truvian Sciences has received federal emergency approval for a blood test that detects COVID-19 antibodies in as little as 10 minutes. Called Easy Check, the portable test will be sold by Truvian to health professionals for about $15 and has an accuracy rate in excess of 98 percent,…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: “FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SHANGHAI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing innovative therapies to treat liver disease and cancer, today announced positive results from its completed Phase 1 single ascending dose and multiple ascending dose study of TERN-201, a semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase (SSAO) inhibitor,…
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Excerpt from the article: “Inovio’s stock climbed as much as 15% in pre-market trading Thursday after the Montgomery County biopharmaceutical company announced its Covid-19 vaccine candidate was effective in protecting non-human primates from the virus 13 weeks after the last vaccination. The stock was up more than 6% to $20.73 per share at Thursday’s close.…
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Excerpt from the article: “A single-shot vaccine for COVID-19 being developed by a group of scientists, led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) immunologist Dan H. Barouch, has proven successful in tests on primates and could begin phase 3 trials as early as September. The results of the tests on the vaccine, developed at…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: “SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Selva Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that the company has raised $3 million in a Series A financing round from private investors. The proceeds of the financing will be used to rapidly advance SLV213 into clinical trials as a leading oral drug candidate for the treatment of COVID-19, the…
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