Greentech

Investors Chronicle | April 30, 2020

Healthcare companies around the world are scrambling to produce drugs and vaccines to treat and immunise people against Covid-19. However, the managers of International Biotechnology Trust (IBT) are not necessarily investing in these companies as their share prices are volatile, shooting up on reports of possible treatments in development.For example, Carl Harald Janson, lead manager of International Biotechnology Trust, recently reduced the trust’s holding in Gilead Sciences (US:GIL...

INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

Kane Biotech Inc. | February 11, 2022

Kane Biotech Inc. announces that it has signed collaboration agreements with Dr. James Doub, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Institute of Human Virology, and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) to study the use of DispersinB® with Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) patients. The group is securing funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for pre-clinical work to be done by Josh Wenke, a Professor in the Department of O...

BioSpace | March 04, 2020

Amunix Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Amunix”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing prodrugs to bring the promise of potent immune-activating biotherapeutics to patients with solid tumor cancers, today announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed $73 million Series A financing. Boston-based Omega Funds led the financing, with participation from existing investor Frazier Healthcare Partners and new investors Longitude Capital, Redmile Group, Polaris Partners, C...

MEDICAL

Alligator Bioscience | December 07, 2020

Alligator Bioscience declares an affirmed IND (Investigational new Drug) for the CD40 targeting antibody mitazalimab. IND endorsement by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an essential to begin clinical preliminaries in the USA. As of late, new benchmark information was distributed indicating that mitazalimab can possibly be top tier in the CD40 field. The comparison demonstrated the potent immune-activating properties and anti-tumor effects of mitazalimab. "W...