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BioSpace | March 24, 2020

Axim Biotech® Inc. (OTCQB: AXIM) (“AXIM® Biotech,” “AXIM” or “the Company”), an international healthcare solutions company targeting oncological and cannabinoid research, announced today that its subsidiary Sapphire Biotech, Inc. (“Sapphire”) has completed pre-clinical drug studies on a new compound, SPX-1009, demonstrating 10 times greater potency than its parent compound, SBI-183, in inhibiting metastasis....

BioSpace | February 20, 2020

Spruce Biosciences, based in San Francisco, closed on a Series B financing round worth $88 million. The round was co-led by Omega Funds and Abingworth and supported by existing investors Novo Holdings and RiverVest Venture Partners. New investors included HealthCap Partners, Rock Springs Capital, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Aisling Capital and Sands Capital. In September 2019, the company announced positive results from a Phase IIa, multicenter, 12-week clinical trial of tildacerfont f...

BioSpace | February 27, 2020

Tetra Bio-Pharma, a leader in cannabinoid-derived drug discovery and development, is pleased to announce that it has signed a co-development definite agreement with MAKScientific. This agreement provides Tetra with access to novel patented new molecules with CB1 and CB2 agonist or antagonist properties. In the long term, this agreement secures patented new drug candidates for Tetra to develop after Caumz and QIXLEEF receive marketing approval....

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics | October 26, 2020

Rapid Reshore & Development (RR&D), an alliance of three specialized firms, and BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, Inc (NASDAQ: BCLI), a leading developer of adult stem cell therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, announced that BrainStorm has selected RR&D as its partner to expedite site selection and design services for a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for NurOwn® (autologous MSC-NTF) in the U.S. BrainStorm is investigating NurOwn as a potential treatment for neurodegener...