eHealth Innovation @ UHN

Xylyx Bio | September 30, 2020

Xylyx Bio, a leader in advanced disease models for drug discovery, today announced the launch of specialized contract R&D services that support improved assessment of antifibrotic drug candidate efficacy. Despite ongoing advances, the current drug discovery paradigm is highly inefficient. Approximately 40% of development costs are associated with preclinical studies, yet 80% of drug candidates fail before reaching Phase I trials, largely due to lack of translatability of efficacy data to hum...

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...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Biocytogen | June 23, 2021

Biocytogen, a worldwide biotechnology organization zeroed in on neutralizer drug innovative work (R&D) utilizing creative genetically designed creature models, today declared the fruitful culmination of another round of financing adding up to a huge number of dollars. The financing was together finished by Lake Bleu Capital, CPE, Octagon Capital and OrbiMed. Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was set up in 2009. Utilizing its primary quality altering innovation, th...

BioSpace | February 25, 2020

Shares of U.K.-based Bicycle Therapeutics are climbing this morning after the company announced it entered into a strategic immuno-oncology collaboration with Genentech to discover, develop and commercialize novel Bicycle-based immuno-oncology therapies. The collaboration has a value of up to $1.7 billion if all milestones are hit. Under terms of the agreement, Bicycle will receive an upfront payment of $30 million to focus its proprietary bicyclic peptides platform on a wide range of immuno-onc...