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HealthMyne | September 22, 2021

HealthMyne, a pioneer in applied radiomics, announced that peer-reviewed research recently published in the journal Cancers has demonstrated the ability of its radiomics technology to identify biomarkers that predict whether patients with lung adenocarcinoma would benefit from immunotherapy. In the Cancers article, researchers led by Vincenza Granata evaluated HealthMyne's technology as a quantitative imaging decision support tool for radiomic analysis of lung adenocarcinoma i...

BioSpace | March 12, 2020

Cambridge, Mass.-based Kymera Therapeutics closed a $102 million Series C funding round to continue advancing the company’s lead targeted protein degradation asset for oncology and immunology. Kymera's lead program targets IRAK4, a protein that is known to play a significant role in inflammation that is mediated by toll-like and IL-1 receptors. Kymera aims to advance its IRAK4 degrader program in a variety of autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases, as well as in precision-medicine ta...

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 ...

European Biotechnology | February 17, 2020

PharmaMar and Jazz Pharmaceuticals have received FDA Priority Review of a NDA for lurbinectedin in relapsed SCLC (Small Cell Lung Cancer). The PDUFA date was set for August 16, 2020 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lurbinectedin as second-line treatment for patients with SCLC who relapsed following platium-based chemotherapy. The synthetic drug developed by PharmaMar SA (Madrid, Spain) and exclusively licenced by Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Dublin, Ireland) in December 2019 works b...