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Labiotech | February 03, 2020

RNA vaccine developer CureVac will receive a grant of up to €8.3M from a global partnership to develop an mRNA vaccine against the new coronavirus strain from China. The agreement follows on from an existing collaboration launched in 2019, when the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, granted CureVac €30M to develop facilities that can ‘print’ mRNA vaccines. The aim of the new grant is to help CureVac’s preclinical-stage mRNA vaccine for the coron...

Cell and Gene Therapy

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics | October 26, 2020

Rapid Reshore & Development (RR&D), an alliance of three specialized firms, and BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, Inc (NASDAQ: BCLI), a leading developer of adult stem cell therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, announced that BrainStorm has selected RR&D as its partner to expedite site selection and design services for a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for NurOwn® (autologous MSC-NTF) in the U.S. BrainStorm is investigating NurOwn as a potential treatment for neurodegener...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Biotimize | September 06, 2022

Biotimize, a functional growth-stage biotechnology as a service company with a mission to transform lives through biotechnology, today announced the opening of a $30 million Series A fundraising round. The investment will enable Biotimize to build the first biological CDMO in Brazil and to become the first end-to-end biological CDMO in South America. Brazilian universities, startups, and medium-large companies face enormous challenges in developing biological Active Pharmaceutical...

FierceBiotech | January 17, 2020

China-based cancer and autoimmune disease biotech I-Mab Biopharma has raised $104 million on the U.S. Nasdaq composite. It hit $14 a share, the midpoint in the range, and becomes the first Chinese biotech in more than two years (the last being Zai Lab back in 2017) to gain a U.S. IPO. According to recent reports out of Bloomberg, however, it had been quietly hoping for a $200 million offering. The offering seems relatively tame after the monster raises it has gained over the years, including $22...