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Persephone Biosciences | July 20, 2022

Persephone Biosciences Inc., a synthetic biology company reimagining patient and infant health through the development of microbiome-based medicines, today announced that it has closed a $15 million seed financing round. The round was co-led by First Bight Ventures and Propel Bio Partners, and included investments from Y Combinator, Fifty Years, Susa Ventures, American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Fund, Pioneer Fund, and ZhenFund among others. “Thi...

Vedere Bio | October 29, 2020

Vedere Bio, Inc. (Vedere Bio), a stealth-stage company focused on advancing photoreceptor-protein-based optogenetic therapies that are delivered to the retina intravitreally to restore functional vision, announced today that it has been acquired by Novartis. Shareholders in Vedere Bio received $150 million upfront and will be eligible for up to $130 million in milestone payments, for a total of $280 million. Based on technology from the laboratories of Drs. Ehud Isacoff and John G. Flannery of U...

Cell and Gene Therapy

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | December 17, 2021

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. and Skyline Therapeutics a gene and cell therapy company focused on developing novel treatments for unmet medical needs, announced a multi-year global strategic collaboration for the discovery, development and commercialization of Adeno-Associated Virus gene therapies to treat genetic cardiovascular diseases. The partnership will leverage Skyline Therapeutics' integrated AAV gene therapy platform based on its proprietary vector engineer...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Caris Life Sciences | April 11, 2022

Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), the leading molecular science and technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, to present findings that provide a deeper understanding that tumor expression of genes related to extent of drug exposure, stratified by p53 status, is associated with clinical outcomes on the common chemotherapeutic regimens used to treat metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). These results will be presented at the 2022 American ...