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BioSpace | March 02, 2020

Two years after Cambridge, Mass.-based Akrevia Therapeutics launched, the company has rebranded itself as Xilio Therapeutics and secured $100.5 million in a Series B financing round that will be used to advance its lead therapeutic candidates into clinical studies. The financing will be used to progress Xilio’s first two therapeutic candidates, XTX201 (tumor-selective IL-2) and XTX101 (tumor-selective aCTLA4 mAb) through Investigational New Drug (IND) enabling studies and into Phase I clin...

Evolugate | May 28, 2020

INRAE, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive option license agreement with biotechnology company Evolugate of Gainesville, FL to optimize its probiotic to manage human hypercholesterolemia, a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.INRAE is the first worldwide research institute in agronomy. INRAE-Micalis has been investigating the human microbiome to identify microbes that can influence hypercholesterolemia. They have selected microbes that degrade or sequeste...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

BioInvent | December 22, 2020

BioInvent International AB ("BioInvent") (OMXS: BINV), a biotech organization focused in on the discovery and development of novel and first-in-class immune-modulatory antibodies for cancer immunotherapy, and Transgene (Euronext Paris: TNG), a biotech organization that designs and develops infection based for the therapy of cancer, reported they have received administrative endorsement in Belgium for a clinical trial application (CTA) for a Phase l/lla study of the novel oncolytic vacc...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Burixafor | November 09, 2020

TaiGen Biotechnology Company, Limited ("TaiGen") announced today that they have signed an exclusive agreement with GPCR Therapeutics, Inc. ("GPCR"), a leading Korean biotechnology company, for the continued development of Burixafor worldwide and the commercialization of Taigexyn® (nemonoxacin) in South Korea. Burixafor is a highly potent CXCR4 inhibitor currently under clinical development. It can be used as a stem cell mobilizer for hematopoietic stem cell transplantatio...