F-star Biotechnology Ltd

FierceBiotech | February 11, 2020

Pfizer’s former longtime cancer research head Robert Abraham, Ph.D., has become the new chief scientific officer at a San Diego biotech after leaving the Big Pharma last year. He moves over to 2017 Fierce 15 winner Vividion Therapeutics, a biotech looking to increase the number of proteins small molecules can target. Last April, it got off a $82 million series B financing round. Its platform is based on the work of Benjamin Cravatt, Phil Baran and Jin-Quan Yu at the Scripps Research Instit...

MedTech

Neumora | October 12, 2022

Neumora Therapeutics, Inc. a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering precision medicines for brain diseases through the integration of data science and neuroscience, today announced the close of a $112 million Series B financing. The Series B syndicate includes both new and existing investors, such as Abu Dhabi Growth Fund Altitude Life Science Ventures, Amgen, ARCH Venture Partners, Exor Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Invus, Mubadala Capital, Newpath Partners, Polaris Partners and other und...

Cell and Gene Therapy

DRI | March 10, 2022

New research from the Healthy Nevada Project® found associations between genetics, obesity, and childhood trauma, linking social health determinants, genetics, and disease. The study, which was published this week in Frontiers in Genetics, found that participants with specific genetic traits and who experience childhood traumas are more likely to suffer from adult obesity. In 2016, DRI and Renown Health launched the Healthy Nevada Project®, the nation’s first communi...

Medical

biotech, biotechnology, cell, gene, tissue | June 10, 2022

SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) of Barcelona, and the Spanish Diagnóstica Longwood today announced from the European Hematology Association Congress in Vienna that they have combined their expertise to develop a new Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) solution to advance CLL care. This collaboration will unify the wide variety of current guideline recommendations into one single application aiming to improve ...