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ILiAD Biotechnologies | January 04, 2022

ILiAD Biotechnologies, a late stage biotech development company focused on global eradication of disease due to Bordetella pertussis, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to BPZE1, a next generation vaccine for active booster immunization against pertussis. BPZE1 is the most advanced next generation pertussis vaccine currently in clinical development. Developed in the laboratory of Camille Locht, PhD, at the Institut Pasteur...

BioSpace | February 25, 2020

Shares of U.K.-based Bicycle Therapeutics are climbing this morning after the company announced it entered into a strategic immuno-oncology collaboration with Genentech to discover, develop and commercialize novel Bicycle-based immuno-oncology therapies. The collaboration has a value of up to $1.7 billion if all milestones are hit. Under terms of the agreement, Bicycle will receive an upfront payment of $30 million to focus its proprietary bicyclic peptides platform on a wide range of immuno-onc...

Labiotech | January 15, 2020

The US company bluebird bio has launched the first gene therapy for the blood disorder transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia in the EU, with a hospital in Germany becoming its first qualified treatment center. Bluebird bio’s gene therapy, branded as Zynteglo, was given conditional market approval by the EU in June 2019. It was the first gene therapy approved to treat people over 12 years of age with all but the most severe form of transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, a condition that n...

Lilly | June 01, 2020

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced patients have been dosed in the world's first study of a potential antibody treatment designed to fight COVID-19.This investigational medicine, referred to as LY-CoV555, is the first to emerge from the collaboration between Lilly and AbCellera to create antibody therapies for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Lilly scientists rapidly developed the antibody in just three months after AbCellera and the Vaccine Research Center at t...