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Vaxart, Inc. | August 29, 2022

Vaxart, Inc. announced that Elaine J. Heron, Ph.D. was appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective August 25, 2022. "Elaine has tremendous experience in life science research and development, sales and marketing, finance, and accounting, as well as corporate governance matters,” said Andrei Floroiu, Vaxart's Chief Executive Officer. "We welcome Elaine to Vaxart and the Board.” The Company also announced that Dr. Julie Che...

MEDTECH

Avenge Bio, Inc. | August 23, 2022

Avenge Bio, Inc. a biotechnology company developing the LOCOcyte™ immunotherapy platform for the precision administration of potent immune effector molecules to treat solid tumors, today announced a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Cancer Research describing the foundational, preclinical data establishing the efficacy and safety of pleural administered LOCOcyte™ for the treatment of pleural malignant mesothelioma. The manuscript, entitled "Activation of adaptive...

BioSpace | February 20, 2020

Bladder cancer drug Padcev, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December, secured Breakthrough Therapy designation for the treatment of patients with another type of bladder cancer. Seattle Genetics and Astellas Pharma, the co-developers of Padcev (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) said the new designation was awarded to the bladder cancer drug in combination with Merck’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda for the treatment of patients with unresectable locally advanced or met...

Boost Biomes | June 25, 2020

US-based food and agriculture biotech startup Boost Biomes and global crop nutrition company, Yara International ASA, announced today the close of Boost's USD 5 million series A equity round as well as a joint development agreement between the two companies. Yara's investment amounts to USD 3 million. Existing investors, including Viking Global Investors and Y Combinator, participated in the close.With this partnership in place, Boost and Yara will expand current efforts to co-deve...