CELL AND GENE THERAPY, INDUSTRIAL IMPACT
Scientist.com | February 02, 2023
On February 1, 2023, Scientist.com, the biopharma industry's largest R&D marketplace, announced the release of a new iOS mobile app. The app provides a new, easy-to-use, on-the-go experience for purchase request approvals and compliance. In addition, iPhone users receive untethered notifications for accepting, delegating, and clarifying requests without needing to use their computers. The result is speedier approvals and fewer delays in scientific discovery.
Scientist.com has spent the past fourteen years developing a digital marketplace that allows scientists to devote more time to science and less time to paperwork. The platform enables researchers to test more ideas in less time and at a lesser cost. It digitizes a company's complete research activities, automatically tracking purchases, contract management, payment processing, and generating business intelligence reports.
Scientist.com Founder and CTO Chris Petersen commented, "One of the major barriers to drug discovery is the time it takes to ensure all compliance measures are met for a given research project, and understandably so." He added, "Our goal in building the Compliance Mobile App is to put compliance in the pocket of approvers, therefore minimizing the time it takes for researchers to move through the R&D process."
(Source – Business Wire)
Registered users of the Scientist.com platform can now get the Compliance Mobile App free from the Apple App Store
About Scientist.com
Founded in 2007, Scientist.com is the world's largest medical research marketplace. Its digital research platform combines a custom-built, cloud-native technology stack with a white-glove customer and scientific support, helping pharmaceutical scientists discover life-saving drugs in less time and at a lower cost. As a result, Scientist.com is accelerating and lowering the cost of medical research by connecting scientists and allowing them to exchange ideas and transact online effortlessly. The company now has a presence in enterprise marketplaces for 20 of the world's top 30 pharmaceutical firms, 80 biotechnology enterprises, and the National Institutes of Health in the United States (NIH).
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MEDTECH, AI
Quantum-Si | January 10, 2023
The leading Protein Sequencing Company™, Quantum-Si, recently announced that it signed a partnership and license agreement with Biovista to offer customers more significant proteomic insights beyond their protein sequence output.
Biovista utilizes artificial intelligence in multiple formats to analyze enormous data repositories and visualize non-obvious networks and connections between proteins, diseases, and drug mechanisms of action. The partnership enhances Quantium-Si's services significantly by making proteomic-to-drug workflows more efficient for researchers.
Biovista's VIZIT™ exploration tool will be incorporated into Quantum-Si's cloud-based suite of analytic tools, allowing researchers to visualize the connections between the protein sequences identified during their experiment to diseases, other proteins, and post-translational modifications. Thus, researchers can identify potential disease-specific mechanisms and biomarkers more efficiently and effectively.
"Quantum-Si's protein sequencing technology in concert with Biovista's database and visualization technology can aid in the discovery of new proteins for future therapeutic targets associated with disease," said Jeff Hawkins, CEO of Quantum-Si. He further stated, "The potential can also extend to discovering new biomarkers for clinical research and diagnostics."
(Source- Business Wire)
"Quantum-Si is leading the next generation of real-world meaningful sequencing," said Dr. Aris Persidis, Biovista's Co-Founder and President. "We are excited to see deep sequencing and insight generation now available in one integrated platform," he concluded.
(Source- Business Wire)
About Quantum-Si
Quantum-Si, The Protein Sequencing CompanyTM, is dedicated to revolutionizing the rapidly expanding field of proteomics. It provides the first-of-its-kind, end-to-end, universal single-molecule detection solutions, allowing to build, experiment, and discover on its platform regardless of their existing products. In addition, its proprietary Time Domain Sequencing technology eliminates the reliance on color as an identification method, a barrier for any application outside of genomics, where only four colors are required.
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MEDTECH, INDUSTRIAL IMPACT
ATUM and Codiak | January 25, 2023
On January 24, 2023, ATUM, a global leader in bioengineering solutions, announced that it has signed a comprehensive licensing agreement with Codiak BioSciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, for the Leap-In Transposase® technology.
ATUM will grant Codiak access to its Leap-In Transposase® technology in order to create mammalian cells expressing exosomes engineered to deliver therapeutic payloads under the conditions of the agreement. The Leap-In technology is a comprehensive solution that integrates patented re-coding algorithms, unique genetic vector elements, and a transposon-based mechanism for efficiently inserting genetically stable elements into the genome.
"Through years of rigorous research and clinical validation we have created a platform for engineering and manufacturing therapeutic exosomes with various payloads on the surface or inside the lumen. We believe ATUM's transposase technology has the potential to effectively synergize with Codiak's engEx® Platform to further enhance loading these vesicles, making them more potent and reducing cost of goods," Commented Scott Estes, Ph.D., VP of Cell Line Development at Codiak.
(Source – Business Wire)
"Exosomes are bio vesicles that have the potential to fundamentally change drug delivery. We are proud and excited to license the Leap-In Transposase® technology to Codiak for the engineering of cell lines that enables rapid and robust production of exosomes," said Claes Gustafsson, Ph.D., Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder at ATUM.
(Source – Business Wire)
About Codiak
Founded in 2015, Codiak is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm focused on developing exosome-based treatments, a new class of medications with the potential to change the treatment of a variety of diseases with high unmet medical needs. It created a proprietary engEx Platform that uses exosome biology as natural intercellular transfer mechanisms to design, construct, and manufacture innovative exosome therapeutic candidates. By utilizing its engEx Platform, it has produced a rich pipeline of engineered exosomes for neuro-oncology, oncology, neurology, neuromuscular, and infectious diseases.
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