BioReliance

Cell and Gene Therapy, Industrial Impact

Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc | February 09, 2023

On February 7, 2023, Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc., a renowned late-stage biotech firm advancing an integrated and sustainable pipeline of genetic therapies for rare disorders with high unmet needs, announced that FDA has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to RP-A501, the company's investigational adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy for Danon Disease, a life-threatening genetic cardiac disease with no disease-altering therapies available. RMAT s...

TheHill | April 05, 2020

Gilead Sciences Inc., a U.S. biotechnology firm that develops and commercializes drugs, has rapidly expanded its supply of an experimental coronavirus drug and is prepared to donate 1.5 million doses of it to hospitals dealing with severely ill patients. Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day said in a statement Saturday that the 1.5 million doses of the drug, known as remdesivir, could be part of treatment courses for as many as 140,000 patients. He said the doses were available for "compassionate us...

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...

Industrial Impact, Medical

Businesswire | March 29, 2023

Bicycle Therapeutics plc a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, today announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with Novartis to develop, manufacture and commercialize Bicycle® radio-conjugates (BRCs) for multiple agreed upon oncology targets. “This collaboration builds on the groundbreaking clinical work we have been doing in the...