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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....

MedTech

Ochre Bio | December 15, 2021

Ochre Bio, a biotech company developing RNA medicines for chronic liver diseases, announced to have entered into a Charitable Donation Agreement with the British Liver Trust in support of improving awareness for liver health. “On our path to develop next-generation RNA medicines with the potential to improve the lives of patients in need of a liver transplant, we are grateful to have access to discarded donor livers, allowing us to develop therapeutics that are safe and effe...

Labiotech | February 03, 2020

RNA vaccine developer CureVac will receive a grant of up to €8.3M from a global partnership to develop an mRNA vaccine against the new coronavirus strain from China. The agreement follows on from an existing collaboration launched in 2019, when the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, granted CureVac €30M to develop facilities that can ‘print’ mRNA vaccines. The aim of the new grant is to help CureVac’s preclinical-stage mRNA vaccine for the coron...

Medical

Sesen Bio | December 02, 2020

Sesen Bio, a late-stage clinical organization creating focused on combination protein therapeutics for the therapy of patients with cancer, and Hikma Pharmaceuticals, a worldwide pharmaceutical organization and driving permitting partner in the Middle East and North Africa ("MENA") area spend significant time in the turn of events and commercialization of an expansive scope of great medicines, today declared that the organizations have gone into exclusive licensing agreement for the re...