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Vedere Bio | October 29, 2020

Vedere Bio, Inc. (Vedere Bio), a stealth-stage company focused on advancing photoreceptor-protein-based optogenetic therapies that are delivered to the retina intravitreally to restore functional vision, announced today that it has been acquired by Novartis. Shareholders in Vedere Bio received $150 million upfront and will be eligible for up to $130 million in milestone payments, for a total of $280 million. Based on technology from the laboratories of Drs. Ehud Isacoff and John G. Flannery of U...

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...

FierceBiotech | January 22, 2020

Targovax has shared data from an early-phase trial that administered ONCOS-102 to mesothelioma patients. The response rate was lower in the ONCOS-102 arm than in the control cohort, but Targovax saw positives elsewhere, leading it to outline plans to pair the drug with a checkpoint inhibitor. ONCOS-102 is an adenovírus-based cancer therapy that Targovax thinks can improve on treatment options available to patients with pleural mesothelioma, a type of cancer that affects the lining of the ...

PHASE Scientific | June 22, 2020

PHASE Scientific, a high-growth biotechnology company that develops innovative sample preparation technologies, announced new findings at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting II. The study presented by MD Anderson Cancer Center evaluates the efficacy of PHASE Scientific's liquid phase DNA isolation method (PHASIFY™) in improving cancer liquid biopsy sensitivity.Early-stage cancer diagnostics and cancer screening applications are limited ...