Biotech Connection - Bay Area, Inc.

Cell and Gene Therapy

Exact Sciences Corporation | January 10, 2022

Exact Sciences Corp. announced it has acquired PreventionGenetics, a genetic testing laboratory, to complement its advanced cancer diagnostics portfolio and support its entrance into hereditary cancer testing (HCT). PreventionGenetics provides the clinical lab, expertise, and foundational technology necessary to accelerate the availability of HCT and help more patients know their germline risk of cancer and other diseases. "PreventionGenetics is a natura...

Medical

globenewswire | September 12, 2023

Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted protein modulation drugs designed to treat patients with hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, today announced that it has entered into a multi-year, multi-target strategic collaboration agreement with Seagen Inc. to advance a new class of medicines called Degrader-Antibody Conjugates (DACs) for u...

Diagnostics

Zivo | June 28, 2022

ZIVO Bioscience, Inc. is a U.S.-based R&D company dedicated to the study, development and commercialization of natural nutritional compounds and bioactive molecules derived from proprietary algal strains, announced joining the Russell Microcap® Index (^RUMIC) as a result of the Russell indexes annual reconstitution in 2022. Russell Microcap® Index membership that remains in place for a course of 12 months, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate value style and gr...

Industrial Impact

Kane Biotech Inc. | February 11, 2022

Kane Biotech Inc. announces that it has signed collaboration agreements with Dr. James Doub, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Institute of Human Virology, and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) to study the use of DispersinB® with Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) patients. The group is securing funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for pre-clinical work to be done by Josh Wenke, a Professor in the Department of O...