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prnewswire | April 04, 2023

Sensible Biotechnologies, an early stage biotechnology company, today announced a partnership to develop an in vivo microbial mRNA manufacturing platform with Ginkgo Bioworks which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity. Today, the vast majority of mRNA used in vaccines, therapeutics and other applications is produced by in vitro transcription (IVT), a cell-free process, which is driven by purified enzymes. In conventional mRNA manufacturing, produ...

AVM Biotechnology | July 09, 2020

Seattle's AVM Biotechnology, an up-and-coming biotech firm whose lead molecule, AVM0703, has received FDA permission to begin clinical trials treating no-option Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and is applying to begin trials treating moderate-severely ill COVID-19 patients, announced today the hiring of Janet R. Rea, MSPH, as Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Rea will lead operations and direct regulatory affairs as the company conducts clinical trials and brings AVM0703 to market."I am...

Industrial Impact

Alloy Therapeutics, Inc. | October 04, 2022

Alloy Therapeutics, a biotechnology ecosystem company, has closed $42 million in Series D financing led by its existing investors 8VC and Mubadala Capital and joined by return investors Thiel Capital, Presight Capital, Founders Fund, and other unnamed family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Alloy will use proceeds from the Series D financing to further support the drug discovery community with new pre-competitive drug discovery technologies in new biologic modalities and new partnership model...

FierceBiotech | January 21, 2020

With a new research team, outlook and more than a little help from the tech world, GSK has been quietly going about shoring up its pipeline. After seeming to turn away from oncology R&D under its old CEO Sir Andrew Witty a few years ago, new CEO and R&D head Emma Walmsley and Hal Barron, respectively, have made powering their pipeline out of the slow lane the priority. Today, GSK announced that one of its top prospects (and a drug Barron has singled out in the past) has been handed an FD...