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INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

AbCellera and Atlas Venture | August 04, 2022

AbCellera and Atlas Venture announced a multi-target partnership to discover therapeutic antibodies for up to three drug targets that can be developed and commercialized by a stealth-stage Atlas-backed company. The collaboration leverages Atlas’ proven track record in forming innovative biotechnology companies and AbCellera’s unique ability to quickly deliver lead drug candidates to bring transformational new medicines to patients faster. "Ab...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY, MEDICAL

QIAGEN | January 11, 2023

QIAGEN recently announced its acquisition of Verogen, a leader in utilizing next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to advance the future of human identification (HID) and forensic investigation. QIAGEN, which introduced the first commercial kits to purify DNA from forensic casework samples in the late 1990s, is one of the leaders in the HID/forensics sector. Verogen, a privately-owned company launched in 2017, provides NGS tools and professional services to t...

MEDTECH

SpectrumX | November 25, 2022

SpectrumX, a UK-based healthcare and pharmaceutical company announces that following a constructive scientific advice meeting with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on Monday, 14th November, the Company is prepared to move forward with the next stage in clinical development of its respiratory drug candidate SPX-001. Per regulatory guidelines, SpectrumX will submit a combined Clinical Trial and Ethics Committee application for a placebo-controlled phase Ib inf...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

BeiGene | November 23, 2021

BeiGene a global, science-driven biotechnology company focused on developing innovative and affordable medicines, announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial of BGB-23339, a potent, allosteric investigational tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor internally developed by BeiGene scientists. TYK2 is a member of the JAK family and functions as a critical mediator in cytokine signaling pathways implicated in multiple immune-mediated disorders, such as psor...