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UC Davis | April 14, 2020

The Genentech Foundation has donated $2.5 million to the University of California, Davis, College of Biological Sciences — the college’s largest single gift ever — to fund a program that will help biology students transferring from community college. Called AvenueB, the program will provide financial support and preparatory programs for students going to four-year university. According to the Campaign for College Opportunity, students transferring from community colleges to a U...

Provention Bio, Inc. | May 19, 2020

The preclinical prototype vaccine is well-tolerated and provides strong protection against coxsackievirus B infections and diabetes in relevant animal models. Results provide a solid scientific basis for human trials with Provention's PRV-101 vaccine. Read More

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...

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Bicycle Therapeutics | October 26, 2021

Bicycle Therapeutics plc a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, today announced that Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, has exercised an option to initiate a new program, expanding the exclusive strategic collaboration agreement with Bicycle to discover, develop and commercialize novel Bicycle®-based immuno-oncology therapies. Bicycle and Genentech are collabora...