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Cell and Gene Therapy, MedTech

Nkarta, Inc. | December 06, 2022

Nkarta, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company developing engineered natural killer cell therapies to treat cancer, today announced positive updated data from its Phase 1 dose escalation study of NKX019 as monotherapy to treat patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Seven of ten patients treated at the higher dose levels in a three-dose regimen showed a complete response including two patients with aggressive large B cell lymphoma one patient with mantle cell lymphoma...

Ginkgo Bioworks | September 11, 2020

Today, Ginkgo Bioworks announced a partnership with Totient, an AI-driven drug discovery company emerging from stealth, to rapidly identify neutralizing antibodies against COVID-19. Through this partnership, Totient will leverage Ginkgo's bioengineering platform to express and screen thousands of antibody candidates with the aim of identifying broadly neutralizing therapeutic antibodies against COVID-19 for further development. Totient leverages tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) to identif...

Medical

Ambagon Therapeutics | January 07, 2022

Ambagon Therapeutics, a biotechnology company unlocking intrinsically disordered proteins and other difficult-to-target protein classes, announced an $85 million Series A to augment its drug discovery platform and to advance its pipeline of molecular glues. The financing was led by Nextech Invest. Ambagon was previously seeded by RA Capital Management, Droia Ventures, Inkef Capital, AbbVie Ventures, MRL Ventures Fund, and Mission BioCapital. Investors from the seed round joined th...

Industrial Impact

GeoVax, Inc. | January 15, 2022

GeoVax Labs, Inc. a biotechnology company specializing in developing human vaccines and cancer immunotherapies, announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with a single institutional investor to raise approximately $10.0 million through the private placement of 707,484 shares of common stock, 2,360,000 pre-funded warrants to purchase common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of up to 3,067,484 shares of common stock. Each share of common stock ...