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CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Sphere Fluidics | October 29, 2021

Sphere Fluidics, a company that has developed and is commercialising single cell analysis systems underpinned by its proprietary picodroplet technology, announced today that it has closed a $40 million investment round. The round was led by Sofinnova Partner and Redmile Group investing on equal terms. Sphere Fluidics will use the funding to enable the expansion of the Company’s international sales activities in key markets and improving its support for customers. Furthermore...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Phytolon; Ginkgo Bioworks | February 28, 2022

Phytolon, a growing startup company making natural food colorants, announced a partnership today with Ginkgo Bioworks the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, to produce vibrant cultured food colors via fermentation of yeast. Under this partnership, Phytolon is leveraging Ginkgo's ability to engineer biology at scale to work together on the production of vibrant betalain pigments, the healthy and colorful compounds found in foods like beets and cactus fruit. The project aims to ...

INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

Inhibrx, Inc. | March 04, 2022

Inhibrx, Inc. a biotechnology company with four clinical programs in development and a strong emerging pipeline, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has granted orphan-drug designation for INBRX-101 for the treatment of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, or AATD. "We believe this designation from the FDA acknowledges the significant unmet need for novel therapeutic options in a patient community where the standard of care has not s...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

PDS Biotechnology Corporation | December 27, 2021

PDS Biotechnology Corporation, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing novel cancer therapies and infectious disease vaccines based on the Company’s proprietary Versamune® T-cell activating technology, announced that the compensation committee of the board of directors of the Company approved, on December 20, 2021, an equity award to Michael Lalond, the Company’s new Director of Quality Assurance, as a material inducement to Mr. Lalond entering into employment with PDS ...