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businesswire | March 23, 2023

AbCellera and RQ Bio announced today that they have entered into a strategic collaboration to identify optimal clinical candidates for up to three infectious disease targets selected by RQ Bio, including influenza and cytomegalovirus (CMV). The partnership aims to provide long-lasting infectious diseases medicines to high-risk patients by bringing together RQ Bio’s expertise in infectious diseases and viral evolution with AbCellera’s discovery engine for finding rare, highly po...

PR Newswire | August 26, 2020

Bolder BioTechnology, Inc. announced today that preclinical studies have shown that its proprietary long-acting interferon beta analog, BBT-032, strongly inhibits growth of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in culture at concentrations expected to be readily achievable in patients. SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic.Based upon these promising results, Bolder BioTechnology intends to file an Investigational New Drug Application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

PR Newswire | August 18, 2020

Bold Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, recently generated additional data supporting rapid clinical development of BOLD-100 as a novel antiviral. In a series of experiments conducted by Dr. Stephen Barr, Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Western University, both BOLD-100 and remdesivir were tested head-to-head in a cytopathic effect assay against a live Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in Vero E6 cells. Consistent with prior expe...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Pulmatrix, Inc. | September 27, 2022

Pulmatrix, Inc. a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative inhaled therapies to address serious disease using its patented iSPERSE™ technology, today announced that all subjects have completed dosing in a Phase 1 trial evaluating PUR3100, a novel orally inhaled formulation of dihydroergotamine in healthy volunteers. Phase 1 data from this study is expected in Q4 2022. The Phase 1 trial has a double-dummy, double-blinded design to assesses the safety, to...