Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp

FierceBiotech | February 06, 2020

Just months after collecting $90 million to support the launch of its compact DNA sequencing hardware, GenapSys has raised another $75 million to finance its global expansion with its eyes set on the Asia-Pacific market and the expanding coronavirus outbreak. The company’s high-throughput sequencer—which sits on a tabletop and weighs less than 10 pounds—is being launched in South Korea, Singapore, Japan and China as part of more than 25 recently inked distribution deals....

BioSpace | March 12, 2020

Cambridge, Mass.-based Kymera Therapeutics closed a $102 million Series C funding round to continue advancing the company’s lead targeted protein degradation asset for oncology and immunology. Kymera's lead program targets IRAK4, a protein that is known to play a significant role in inflammation that is mediated by toll-like and IL-1 receptors. Kymera aims to advance its IRAK4 degrader program in a variety of autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases, as well as in precision-medicine ta...

Medical

AvantGen | January 12, 2021

AvantGen, Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology organization with a variety of innovation stages for neutralizer revelation and enhancement, and novel NK and T cell engager age, today reported permitting of a board of its anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody clones to IGM Biosciences for COVID-19 therapy development. Utilizing its novel yeast show framework and huge different human antibody response libraries, AvantGen has distinguished a board of high partiality human monoclonal antibody clo...

Industrial Impact, Diagnostics

Globenewswire | April 10, 2023

Avid Bioservices, Inc. a dedicated biologics contract development and manufacturing organization working to improve patient lives by providing high quality development and manufacturing services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, announced the completion of two expansions within the company’s mammalian cell facilities. The company expects that the first customer for the newly expanded CGMP mammalian cell suites will begin manufacture this month. To celebrate the launch of...