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MEDICAL

Verona Pharma | November 19, 2020

A British clinical-stage biotech firm with U.S. base camp in Raleigh is investigating the alternative of repurposing its leading drug candidate to treat COVID-19 patients. Flush with $200 million after a July raise, the London-based Verona Pharma is now making large walks with its "first-in-class" drug, ensifentrine, targeting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Now, against the backdrop of a pandemic, it’s pushing ahead with a pilot clinic...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Cellistic and Ncardia | September 20, 2022

Cellistic, the cell therapy development and manufacturing business of Ncardia BV, and Celyad Oncology a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies for cancer, announced today a transaction whereby Cellistic will acquire Celyad Oncology’s Good Manufacturing Practice grade cell therapy manufacturing capability, including the existing facility and all related personnel. Under the terms of an asset ...

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...

RESEARCH

PharmAbcine | December 08, 2020

PharmAbcine Inc., a clinical-stage biotech organization focusing in on the improvement of completely human antibody therapeutics, declared today that the organization will introduce the refreshed break information from the continuous stage Ib trial of olinvacimab and pembrolizumab combination therapy in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC) patients at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS 2020) occurring for all intents and purposes over December 8-11, 2020.
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