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Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A | August 23, 2021

Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has entered into a partnership with McMaster University to improve manufacturing processes of antibody and virus-based treatments for diseases such as COVID-19, cancers, and genetic disorders. Using a state-of-the-art multi-column chromatography system provided by Sartorius Stedim Biotech, the McMaster team will "perfect" a process for the purification of therapeutic viruses that...

Xylyx Bio | September 30, 2020

Xylyx Bio, a leader in advanced disease models for drug discovery, today announced the launch of specialized contract R&D services that support improved assessment of antifibrotic drug candidate efficacy. Despite ongoing advances, the current drug discovery paradigm is highly inefficient. Approximately 40% of development costs are associated with preclinical studies, yet 80% of drug candidates fail before reaching Phase I trials, largely due to lack of translatability of efficacy data to hum...

Amagma Therapeutics | January 19, 2022

Amagma Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing antibody therapeutics for inflammatory diseases, announced a license option agreement with Innovent Biologics, Inc. for up to three enzyme specific inhibitors derived from Amagma’s proprietary SEIZMIC™ Platform. Amagma’s SEIZMIC™ Platform leverages a structure-based approach to identify highly selective antibodies which inhibit dysregulated proteases and other enzymes of interest. The co...

Roche | May 13, 2020

KAPA HyperExome is a state-of-the-art whole exome research panel with improved performance over the on-market SeqCap portfolio, providing improved coverage and uniformity. The KAPA Target Enrichment portfolio empowers clinical researchers to process more sa...