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Slate Bio | January 20, 2021

Slate Bio, Inc., reports the closing of a $1.75 million venture financing. Epidarex Capital drove the speculation round with cooperation from the UVA Licensing and Ventures Group Seed Fund, Center for Innovative Technology's GAP BioLife Fund, VTC Seed Fund, PharmaDirections, Inc., the board and others. Record is a pre-clinical biotechnology organization creating outlook changing IL-2 mixes dependent on examination directed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. IL233, Slate's ...

Investors Chronicle | April 30, 2020

Healthcare companies around the world are scrambling to produce drugs and vaccines to treat and immunise people against Covid-19. However, the managers of International Biotechnology Trust (IBT) are not necessarily investing in these companies as their share prices are volatile, shooting up on reports of possible treatments in development.For example, Carl Harald Janson, lead manager of International Biotechnology Trust, recently reduced the trust’s holding in Gilead Sciences (US:GIL...

Diagnostics

Lucid Diagnostics | March 25, 2022

Lucid Diagnostics Inc., a commercial-stage cancer prevention diagnostics company and a majority-owned subsidiary of PAVmed Inc, announced that investigators at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center had enrolled their first patient in a Department of Defense ("DoD")- Katarina B. Greer, M.D., an associate professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, is the lead investigator of the research. Lucid supplies the...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Spotlight Therapeutics | December 01, 2020

Spotlight Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology organization creating non-viral quality altering therapeutics for direct in vivo altering of target genes, closed its Series A financing bringing the complete raised to $30 million. The financing was driven by GV, in the past Google Ventures, with interest from extra undisclosed investors. Realizing the full revolutionary potential of CRISPR genome editing requires the ability to edit target genes directly in the right cells of the hum...