MEDICAL
AlgaEnergy | January 14, 2021
AlgaEnergy N.A. Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Spain-based AlgaEnergy S.A. furthermore, a worldwide pioneer in microalgae biotechnology, has marked worldwide item conveyance and item improvement concurrences with Laboratoire M2 Inc., a Quebec-based biotechnology organization that creates normal and practical disinfectant items, including THYMOX CONTROL® fungicide and bactericide.
AlgaEnergy formulates and creates incredible, manageable, microalgae-based yield contributions for the world's producers. Laboratoire M2's THYMOX® items, gotten from the antimicrobial intensity of thyme oil and other regular oils, are utilized in harvest and indoor farming, just as in turf and nursery markets.
Under the arrangements, AlgaEnergy will acquire restrictive worldwide rights to disperse the THYMOX crop insurance product offering through AlgaEnergy's specialty units in key rural business sectors in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The two organizations likewise marked a permit and collective item advancement understanding under which their logical groups will together attempt to make new, value-added biocontrol products.
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AI
Iktos, Kadmon | May 19, 2021
Iktos, a company specializing in Artificial Intelligence for new drug design, announced today that it has signed a Research Collaboration Agreement with Kadmon, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in New York, USA, under which Iktos' generative modeling artificial intelligence (AI) technology will be used to allow the rapid and cost-effective design of novel drug candidates. Iktos will use its de novo structure-based generative modeling technologies to find novel compounds that meet a pre-defined target product profile as part of the deal, to speed up Kadmon's early-stage discovery efforts.
Kadmon discovers, develops, and delivers small molecules and biologics for the treatment of human diseases. Intending to identify and develop new product candidates for significant unmet medical needs, Kadmon is expanding and incorporating novel drug discovery platforms.
The AI technology developed by Iktos, which is focused on deep generative models, aids in the speed and efficiency of the drug discovery process. Iktos' technology creates virtual novel molecules that have all of the properties of a successful drug molecule automatically. This approach, which has been validated by Iktos' other collaborations, is an innovative approach to one of the most difficult problems in drug design: finding molecules that meet several important drug criteria at the same time, such as potency, selectivity, safety, and project-specific properties.
Iktos' technology enables the creation of new hits with optimal protein-ligand interactions in early-stage discovery projects, as predicted by molecular modeling technology. This technique allows for a one-of-a-kind discovery of chemical space, as well as the development of innovative molecule designs with greater Freedom to Operate. Furthermore, allowing multi-parametric in silico optimization from the start of a project greatly reduces the hit finding and hit-to-lead optimization phases.
About Iktos
Iktos, a French start-up founded in October 2016, specializes in the development of artificial intelligence technologies for chemical research, especially medicinal chemistry, and new drug design. Iktos is working on a proprietary and innovative approach focused on deep learning generative models that allow users to build molecules in silico that follow all of the performance criteria of a small molecule discovery project using existing evidence. Iktos technology allows for significant efficiency gains in upstream pharmaceutical R&D. Iktos' software is utilized as both professional services and a SaaS software platform, Makya. Spaya, a synthesis planning software built on Iktos' proprietary AI technology for retrosynthesis, is also in the works.
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CELL AND GENE THERAPY
IsoPlexis | May 26, 2021
IsoPlexis, the leader in functional single-cell proteomics, announced today the acquisition of a large intellectual property portfolio containing 86 patents related to DNA and RNA sequencing. These nucleic acids and sequencing technologies will be immediately integrated with IsoPlexis' single-cell proteomics platforms, enabling a variety of next-generation tests that include numerous 'omic modalities from every single cell.
This is the next step in the company's roadmap, enabling researchers to make far earlier connections in their genomic studies, straight to the proteome, which determines each organism's in vivo dynamic biology. The acquired assets will allow IsoPlexis' proprietary proteomics technologies to be integrated with newer proprietary sequencing-based technologies. The asset acquisition adds to IsoPlexis' ongoing efforts to assist its customers in more effectively simplifying complex biology to accelerate the creation of more personalized and curative advanced medicines from bench to bedside.
Isoplexis' growing patent portfolio of 153 total patents filed and issued globally will now include sequencing methodologies, allowing for a new level of resolution into the connections between the genome and the proteome of cancer immunology, cell and gene therapy, neurological disease, and other areas.
IsoPlexis' proprietary functional proteomics platform is the first to fully characterize and link cellular function to patient outcomes, treatment response, or disease progression using both proteomics and single-cell biology. The single-cell proteomics platform from IsoPlexis, which comprises instruments, chip consumables, and software, offers an end-to-end solution for providing a more complete view of protein function at the cellular level.
The platform has been quickly embraced by the top 15 global biopharmaceutical companies in terms of revenue, as well as over half of the comprehensive cancer centers in the United States, to develop more durable therapeutics, overcome therapeutic resistance, and predict patient responses for advanced immunotherapies, cell therapies, gene therapies, vaccines, and regenerative medicines.
ABOUT ISOPLEXIS
IsoPlexis is a life science technology company that develops solutions to accelerate the development of curative medicines and personalized therapeutics. Our award-winning single-cell proteomics systems reveal unique biological activity in small subsets of cells, allowing researchers to connect to in vivo biology more directly and develop more precise and personalized therapies. Our integrated systems, which were named top innovation or design by Scientist Magazine, Fierce, BIG Innovation, Red Dot, and a variety of other magazines, are used globally to advance the field of single-cell biology into new 'omic possibilities, as our customers generate solutions to overcome the challenges of complex diseases and therapeutics. Our products have been used by researchers all over the world, including the top 15 pharmaceutical companies in the world and 45% of comprehensive cancer centers in the United States.
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