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Suono Bio | January 06, 2022
Suono Bio, Inc., the company revolutionizing the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, announced its latest publication in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences demonstrating the capability to deliver unformulated RNA therapeutics against relevant disease targets in the gastrointestinal tract.
This latest publication adds to the validation of Suono Bio’s therapeutic delivery platform leveraging low-frequency ultrasound for formulation-agnostic delivery. This technology was originally developed in the laboratory of Institute Professor Robert Langer at MIT to facilitate rapid, local administration of therapeutics to treat serious diseases.
“Therapeutic translation of oligos has been hampered by delivery and bioavailability issues with a complicated landscape for chemical-based formulations. This further demonstrates our capability to deliver RNAs and siRNAs to knockdown relevant gene targets without the need for any formulation.”
Dr. Carl Schoellhammer, corresponding author, and Suono Bio co-founder
In addition to previously demonstrating the preclinical use of siRNAs for treating inflammatory conditions, this latest publication demonstrates the ability to knockdown endogenous genes, including Ctnnb1, the gene encoding for beta-catenin, which plays a role in tumorigenesis in colorectal cancers, for example.
ABOUT SUONO BIO
Suono Bio was founded by Robert Langer and Giovanni Traverso, a gastroenterologist and biomedical engineer from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Carl Schoellhammer. The company is developing therapeutic products for inflammatory-mediated diseases leveraging their ultra-rapid and formulation independent delivery technology. Suono Bio’s platform enables rapid, localized delivery of small molecules, biologics, and nucleic acids and gene therapies without the need for encapsulation of the therapeutic.
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Felix Biotechnology | January 08, 2021
Felix Biotechnology reported the inception of CYPHY, a Phase 1/2 examiner started single focus preliminary at Yale University for focused phage treatment YPT-01 in the therapy of constant P. aeruginosa diseases in cystic fibrosis. This twofold visually impaired, fake treatment controlled study (NCT 04684641) will evaluate the wellbeing and adequacy of YPT-01 added to standard antimicrobial treatment in 36 patients. CYPHY will likewise evaluate the capacity of YPT-01 to lessen the harmfulness and anti-infection obstruction of P. aeruginosa, improving patient results and re-empowering utilization of conventional anti-infection agents against multi-drug safe strains. The lead specialist for this investigation, Dr. Jon Koff, Associate Professor and Director of Yale's Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, is supported by an academic grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
"This is a fantastic opportunity to show how effective phage therapy can be when deployed in an evolutionary framework. We know that pathogens evolve resistance to any antibiotic or therapy we use, so our approach turns that to our advantage," said Dr. Paul Turner, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, co-inventor of YPT-01, and co-founder of Felix Biotechnology. "By targeting phage to mechanisms of virulence, we ensure that if pathogens evolve resistance to phage, they lose traits that make them effective pathogens, putting them in an evolutionary Catch-22."
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Moderna | November 30, 2020
Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology organization pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to make new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today reported a supply agreement with the UK government for an extra 2 million doses of mRNA-1273, Moderna's vaccine candidate against COVID-19, to the United Kingdom starting in March 2021. The UK government has now made sure about 7 million dosages of mRNA-1273. This confirmation comes as the UK proceeds with its efforts to secure access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines by establishing a broad portfolio of the most promising vaccines.
On November 16, Moderna reported that the autonomous, NIH-appointed Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for the Phase 3 investigation of mRNA-1273, its vaccine candidate against COVID-19, has informed Moderna that the trial has met the statistical criteria pre-specified in the study protocol for efficacy, with a vaccine efficacy of 94.5%. This study, known as the COVE study, enrolled more than 30,000 participants in the U.S. and is being conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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