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Cell and Gene Therapy

Gritstone bio | December 07, 2021

Gritstone bio, Inc. a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next generation cancer and infectious disease immunotherapies, and CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, announced the expansion of their agreement in order to support the development of a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine designed to tackle the Omicron COVID-19 variant. CEPI will provide up to $5 million in additional funding to conduct a Phase 1 clinical trial of Gritstone’s Omicron vaccine ...

Roivant | May 13, 2020

Roivant Sciences today announced several updates for its adaptive, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center pivotal BREATHE trial evaluating the impact of intravenous (IV) treatment with gimsilumab on mortality in COVID-19 patients with lung injury or ARDS.The independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) for BREATHE unanimously recommended that the trial continue after a pre-specified safety assessment evaluating data from the first 10% of randomized subjects after six day...

Industrial Impact

Orion Biotechnology | July 15, 2022

Orion Biotechnology Canada Ltd, a drug discovery company targeting previously undruggable G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Peptilogics, a biotech company engineering peptide therapeutics by combining computation and biology to improve the treatment landscape for patients with life-threatening diseases, announced today that they have entered a research and development collaboration to leverage AI for drug discovery against an undrugged GPCR target. The collaboration will combine the...

Cell and Gene Therapy

EVONETIX LTD | March 02, 2022

EVONETIX LTD the synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, announced it has achieved enzymatic DNA synthesis capability with its proprietary, thermally controlled synthesis chemistry. The culmination of a three-year development program, supported by Innovate UK and in collaboration with Durham University, the results demonstrate that Evonetix’s unique, semiconductor array-based platform is compatible with both chemical and enzymatic DNA synthesis, enabli...