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Celltrion, Inc. | April 08, 2019

INCHEON, South Korea & VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 7, 2019--On April 8, Celltrion (KRX:068270) and the Canada-based iProgen Biotech Inc. announced to agree to partner for the development of novel ADCs against validated antibody targets, including HER2 1 and CD20 2. The terms of the partnership agreement include: (1) Celltrion manufactures and supplies four recombinant antibodies to iProgen, among which two are HER2 and CD20 targeting, selected by Celltrion, and two addi...

MEDICAL

Peptilogics | January 11, 2022

Peptilogics, a biotech company that engineers peptide therapeutics to radically improve the treatment landscape for patients with life-threatening diseases, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as accepted the company's Investigational New Drug Application for PLG0206 to treat periprosthetic joint infection allowing the Phase 1b study to proceed. Peptilogics will evaluate the safety and efficacy of PLG0206 in a Phase 1b open-label, dose-escalating study i...

MEDTECH

Salipro Biotech | February 09, 2022

Swedish biotech company Salipro Biotech AB announced that the European Patent Office has granted a further European Patent to the company, No. EP 3 043 814 B1 entitled "Antigen and method for production thereof", following the approval of the US-member of this patent family already in 2018 under US Patent 10,159,729 B2. The patents cover the composition-of-matter, methods and uses of the company's novel antigen technology, strengthening Salipro Biotech's proprietary platform te...

Drug Target Review | January 15, 2020

Scientists have created the first lab-dish models of the cellular clock, where each ‘tick’ stimulates the formation of the vertebra, which uses stem cells derived from adult human tissue. Over 20 years ago, Olivier Pourquié’s lab at Harvard University, US discovered a cellular clock in chicken embryos where each ‘tick’ stimulates the formation of a structure called a somite that ultimately becomes a vertebra. Now, Pourquié has led one of two teams to c...