NIPD Genetics

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Elastrin Therapeutics Inc. | January 17, 2022

Elastrin Therapeutics Inc., a privately held biotechnology company leveraging a platform technology to develop therapeutics that render calcified tissue and organs supple again, announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board. The Board is comprised of leading industry and university experts in cardiovascular research and clinical development. Former CMO of Elastrin Therapeutics, Dr. Pedro M. Quintana Diez, will act as chairman. Elastrin Therapeutics’ lead asset ELT-001 is an EDTA...

FierceBiotech | February 04, 2020

Despite pulling off two megarounds in 2019, Passage Bio is returning to the funding well—but this time, it’s going public. The company filed for a $125 million IPO, which will bankroll the development of its three lead gene therapy programs in dementia, Krabbe disease and rare childhood disease GM1 gangliosidosis. Those programs were among five that Passage picked up in its partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s Gene Therapy Program in February 2019. At the sam...

Eurofins Discovery | November 04, 2020

Eurofins Discovery, the leading provider of services and products to the drug discovery industry, announced a new collaboration with Amphilix AG, a Swiss-based biotech company, to support a program aimed at identifying a treatment modulating key disease mechanisms. Amphilix AG will take advantage of Eurofins Discovery's DiscoveryOne™ offering, an integrated drug discovery platform providing expert support to progress programs to preclinical development and beyond. Amphilix will engage ...

Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | January 28, 2020

MIT spin-out company Kytopen signed a deal with Cambridge Consultants to co-develop the FlowfectTM system, a scalable process that reportedly yields billions of engineered cells in minutes. The product will streamline the engineering of a wide array of human and human-derived cells for use in next-generation cell therapies, with the goal of expanding access to new medicines, says Paulo Garcia, CEO and co-founder of Kytopen....