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Research & Development

Diabetes diagnosis - now a matter of sweat and tears?

21 Jan 2020

No need to draw blood; researchers develop smart technology to diagnose diabetes and treat diabetic retinopathy.

Grey Wolf Therapeutics secures funding for cancer therapies development

21 Jan 2020

The company targets ERAP antigen presentation pathways with the aim of ‘illuminating’ non-responsive tumours for attack and destruction by the immune system.

BioMarin gets go-ahead to start gene therapy clinical trials

15 Jan 2020

BMN 307 represents a potential third PKU treatment option from BioMarin and its second gene therapy clinical program.

French regulator agrees to partial resumption of Tellomak trial patient recruitment

14 Jan 2020

The French National Agency for Medicines and Health Product Safety (ANSM) has agreed that Innate Pharma’s Tellomak (lacutamab) Phase II trial can resume recruitment of new patients with relapsed/refractory Sézary syndrome and mycosis fungoides (MF) in ...

Biogen to acquire novel clinical-stage asset from Pfizer

14 Jan 2020

PF-05251749 complements the company’s pipeline of potential disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Partnership formed to develop and commercialise ready-to-use medicine

13 Jan 2020

The product being developed will use proprietary drug formulation technology platform Arestat to deliver new reformulations of existing, complex products.

ReadCoor to commercially launch spatial sequencing platform

10 Jan 2020

Platform gives researchers access to previously undiscovered data to guide evaluation and validation of new drug targets, pathogen identification, disease diagnosis, and the advancement of regenerative medicine.

New HQ for developer of world's first fully automated drug discovery platform

8 Jan 2020

End-to-end robotic platform provides biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical corporations and academic centres with cost-effective and reproducible drug discovery data.

NIH researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease

3 Jan 2020

Mutations in the RIPK1 gene responsible for CRIA syndrome.

BioAscent scientists help identify potential new treatments for cancer

30 Dec 2019

Collaboration discovers potent and selective inhibitors of enzymes associated with the development of some cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.

NIH launches first US clinical trial of patient-derived stem cell therapy to replace dying cells in retina

13 Dec 2019

NEI-led study to test safety of treatment for a form of age-related macular degeneration that currently lacks treatment.

Sanofi bolsters its immuno-oncology pipeline for $2.5B

6 Dec 2019

Lead asset THOR-707 being explored across multiple solid tumor types alone and in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors and other future IO combinations.