Biocant - Technology Transfer Association

Cell and Gene Therapy, Industrial Impact

Aldevron | January 20, 2023

Aldevron®, a worldwide leader in the custom development and production of plasmid DNA, RNA, and proteins for the biotech sector, recently announced the launch of Eureca-V™ nuclease. Eureca-V™, licensed from Inscripta®, is the wild-type MAD7® CRISPR Type-V nuclease at research grade, with GMP to follow. The launch of Aldevron's Eureca-V nuclease at advanced therapies week expands the toolkit of accessible CRISPR nucleases for therapeutic, di...

Medical

Pfizer | January 15, 2021

Pfizer Inc. declared that, during the second 50% of 2020, it put a sum of $120 million of every four clinical-stage biotech organizations as a feature of the Pfizer Breakthrough Growth Initiative (PBGI). Through PBGI, Pfizer is putting up to $500 million in biotechnology organizations, giving subsidizing and admittance to Pfizer's logical skill to help guarantee the coherence of promising clinical improvement projects of likely future vital interest to Pfizer. Pfizer's ini...

Industrial Impact

SIGA Technologies Inc. | July 16, 2022

SIGA Technologies, Inc. a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the health security market, today announced a collaboration with KaliVir Immunotherapeutics to make TPOXX® available for use with KaliVir’s proprietary oncolytic vaccinia immunotherapy platform. This novel oncolytic platform includes multiple proprietary genetic modifications that can be combined to generate a unique oncolytic virus that has been optimized for systemic delivery and anti-tumor immune stimulatio...

Diagnostics

LUMICKS | May 26, 2022

LUMICKS, a leading life science tools company that develops instruments for dynamic single-molecule and cell avidity analysis, today announced the publication in Cancer Cell of preclinical research identifying "Avidity Enhancement" as a new strategy to improve therapeutic outcome of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). AML poses significant clinical challenges due to its resistance to therapies and its bleak prognosi...