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Generate Biomedicines | December 07, 2022

Generate Biomedicines announced that Dimitris Agrafiotis, Ph.D., FRSC, has been appointed Chief Digital Officer. He will lead multidisciplinary teams across technology, data science, automation, and digital transformation to support the rapid growth of the machine learning-powered biotech. Dr. Agrafiotis brings deep expertise at the intersection of digital technology, data science, and life sciences spanning the entire R&D continuum across venture-funded biotech, big pharma, a...

FierceBiotech | February 10, 2020

A £550 million ($711 million) deal to find new homes for Neil Woodford’s biotech holdings has collapsed, raising the prospect that stakes in companies including Immunocore will be auctioned off for knock-down prices. Woodford became a go-to source of money for private British biotechs in the years after he left Invesco to set up his own fund. However, the illiquid nature of Woodford’s holdings in such companies became a problem as more and more investors began taking money out ...

MedTech, Industrial Impact

MaxCyte | January 04, 2023

MaxCyte, a leading commercial cell-engineering company, announced the signing of a strategic platform license (SPL) with Catamaran Bio, a biotechnology enterprise creating off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cell therapeutics to cure a wide range of cancers. While Catamaran acquires non-exclusive clinical and commercial rights to use MaxCyte's Flow Electroporation® technology and ExPERT™ platform per the terms of the agreement, in exchange, MaxCyte will ...

Cell and Gene Therapy, Industrial Impact

Oxford Nanopore Technologies | February 17, 2023

On February 16, 2023, Oxford Nanopore Technologies announced that it will be furthering its collaboration with UPS Healthcare to expedite the distribution of its Oxford Nanopore DNA/RNA sequencing products and consumables throughout the Asia Pacific region. The collaborative effort will strengthen the supply chain for Oxford Nanopore's portable, real-time DNA sequencing devices in key markets across Asia. By leveraging the specialized healthcare logistics solutions provided ...