Medical Device Usability

INDUSTRIAL IMPACT, MEDICAL

Globenewswire | March 27, 2023

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. a late-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell-based cancer immunotherapies, announced it has completed its rolling Biologics License Application (BLA) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lifileucel. Lifileucel is a tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy intended as a treatment for patients with advanced melanoma who progressed on or after prior anti-PD-1/L1 therapy and targeted therapy, where applicable. There are no...

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...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Vaderis Therapeutics AG | August 22, 2022

Vaderis Therapeutics AG a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for rare diseases associated with vascular malformations, today announced its emergence from stealth and initiation of its INSIGHT proof-of-concept clinical trial in patients suffering from Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia also known as Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome. Vaderis was established in 2019 and in 2020 raised over CHF18 million from Medicxi, enabling progression of its lead asset into the c...

MEDICAL

Helix | March 09, 2022

HealthPartners and leading genomics company, Helix, are launching myGenetics, a population genomics program that will provide important health information to families across Minnesota and surrounding states. The myGenetics program hopes to enroll more than 100,000 participants over four years. Genomic data generated will be integrated with patient health records and shared during their personal clinical care. Through the partnership, HealthPartners will be able to identify risk ea...