Nutra Pharma Corporation

The Business Journals | April 06, 2020

GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology Inc. said Monday they have signed a binding coronavirus research and development agreement. As part of the agreement, GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) will invest $250 million in Vir (NASDAQ: VIR). GlaxoSmithKline, based in London, has large operations in Philadelphia and Montgomery County. Vir is based in San Francisco. Shares in Vir jumped almost 27% to close at $36.70 Monday. GSK's stock price finished up 2% to $37.91. The collaboration will seek to use Vi...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Phytolon; Ginkgo Bioworks | February 28, 2022

Phytolon, a growing startup company making natural food colorants, announced a partnership today with Ginkgo Bioworks the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, to produce vibrant cultured food colors via fermentation of yeast. Under this partnership, Phytolon is leveraging Ginkgo's ability to engineer biology at scale to work together on the production of vibrant betalain pigments, the healthy and colorful compounds found in foods like beets and cactus fruit. The project aims to ...

Industrial Impact, Medical

Globenewswire | March 27, 2023

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. a late-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell-based cancer immunotherapies, announced it has completed its rolling Biologics License Application (BLA) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lifileucel. Lifileucel is a tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy intended as a treatment for patients with advanced melanoma who progressed on or after prior anti-PD-1/L1 therapy and targeted therapy, where applicable. There are no...

MedTech

Flamingo Therapeutics, Inc. | September 09, 2021

Flamingo Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering RNA-targeting therapies in oncology, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Ionis Pharmaceuticals to develop RNA-targeted therapies to treat various forms of cancer. This alliance is an expansion of an existing collaboration with Ionis on the FLAME™ discovery engine, following Flamingo's Series A financing in 2020. The agreement and discovery alliance will leverage Flamingo's de...