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Cell and Gene Therapy

Spotlight Therapeutics | December 01, 2020

Spotlight Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology organization creating non-viral quality altering therapeutics for direct in vivo altering of target genes, closed its Series A financing bringing the complete raised to $30 million. The financing was driven by GV, in the past Google Ventures, with interest from extra undisclosed investors. Realizing the full revolutionary potential of CRISPR genome editing requires the ability to edit target genes directly in the right cells of the hum...

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Evaxion Biotech | January 27, 2022

Evaxion Biotech A/S a clinical-stage biotechnology company specializing in the development of AI-driven immunotherapies to improve the lives of patients with cancer and infectious diseases, announced today the publication of a paper on personalized therapy with EVX-01 in patients with metastatic melanoma in the open access, peer-reviewed journal OncoImmunology. The paper, entitled, “Personalized therapy with peptide-based neoantigen vaccine (EVX-01) including a novel adjuvan...

PR Newswire | August 21, 2020

CDI Laboratories, Inc. announced the addition of its SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19) assay platform. The assays use CDI's VirScan service which can detect antibodies to 1345 individual viral strains representing species from 76 viral genera. This is coupled with CDI's 2 in 1 SARS-CoV-2 antigen microarray which contains overlapping SARS-CoV-2 peptides as well as full-length proteins. This will allow researchers, therapeutic developers, and vaccine developers, to analyze human serum for all kno...

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Naveris, Inc. | September 20, 2022

Naveris, Inc., a commercial-stage life sciences company dedicated to improving patient care through earlier detection of viral-driven cancers, today announced a $33.4 million expansion of its Series A financing, bringing the total investment in Naveris to $51 million. The financing was led by Gurnet Point Capital, joined by TechU Ventures and BrightEdge, the impact and venture capital arm of the American Cancer Society. Naveris’ blood tests for earlier cancer detection use p...