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Cell and Gene Therapy, Industrial Impact

Enlaza Therapeutics | December 19, 2022

Enlaza Therapeutics, the first covalent biologic platform company, announced its official launch with the closing of $61 million in seed financing. The financing was led by Avalon Ventures and joined by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Frazier Life Sciences, and Samsara BioCapital. The financing will be used to further advance Enlaza’s proprietary War-LockTM platform and build a pipeline of covalent biologics with an initial focus on developing novel, differentiated cancer therapeutics with ta...

FierceBiotech | March 06, 2020

Novartis has entered into a four-year research collaboration with Orionis Biosciences. The agreement tasks Orionis with applying its technologies to “historically elusive targets” in multiple therapeutic areas. Orionis has been around since 2015 but kept a low profile over most of that time. The transatlantic biotech used its time flying below the radar to establish two platforms, one focused on cytokines and another for “genome-scale drug discovery,” and to use them to g...

Cell and Gene Therapy

AbbVie | February 11, 2021

AbbVie and Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a leading clinical-stage CRISPR genome altering biotechnology organization, reported today that they have gone into a cooperation and permit arrangement for the innovative work of fanciful antigen receptor (CAR)- T cell therapeutics. Albeit allogeneic, "off-the-shelf" CAR-T cell therapies have indicated early guarantee in some malignancy patients, the requirement for beating the dismissal of allogeneic CAR-T cells by the host immune system stays a ...

Medical

HTL | March 14, 2022

HTL Biotechnology, a pioneer and world leader in the development and production of innovative pharmaceutical grade biopolymers, today announced its incubator's first equity investment in GelMEDIX Inc., an early-stage biotechnology company committed to developing the next generation of ocular and regenerative therapies. This investment supports continued development of the GelMEDIX platform, which enables the delivery of therapeutics from small molecules to cell and gene therap...