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CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Kite, Shoreline Biosciences | June 18, 2021

Kite, a Gilead Company, and Shoreline Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology firm developing intelligently designed allogeneic off-the-shelf, standardized, and targeted natural killer (NK) and Macrophage cellular immunotherapies achieved from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) for cancer and other serious diseases, announced a strategic partnership today to develop novel cell therapies across a variety of indications. The collaboration will combine Shoreline’s profound experi...

RESEARCH

Synthace | August 03, 2021

Synthace, a leading life sciences software company, today announced the first life sciences R&D cloud that includes a no-code software platform addressing the largest barriers to innovation that R&D life scientists currently face. With the release of this new platform, Synthace is also the first vendor to enable scientists to automate experimentation and insight sharing in a unified, global R&D environment. Scientists can now focus on asking the most impactful questions and unlock th...

FierceBiotech | February 10, 2020

Britain-based biotech Enterprise Therapeutics has hired Novartis Venture Fund managing director David Morris, M.D., as its next chief medical officer. Morris, who will continue to serve as the fund’s operating partner, will lead Enterprise’s development strategy and drive its two lead respiratory programs through the clinic. These are ETD002, a first-in-class TMEM16A potentiator, and ETD001, an ENaC blocker, both of which are hoping to help cystic fibrosis (CF) patients....

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...