A clinical stage biotechnology company Immunomic Therapeutics has received Fast Track Designation (FTD) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ITI-3000 programme to treat patients with Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC).
Kite, a Gilead Company, has signed a global license agreement with Refuge Biotechnologies, a synthetic biology company for cancer immunotherapy, for exclusive rights to use latter’s gene expression platform to develop potential treatments for blood cancers.
Gilead Sciences company Kite has secured approval from the European Commission (EC) for Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) to treat adult patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and high-grade B-cell lymphoma (HGBL).
Personalis has partnered with Duke University and Olink Proteomics for a research collaboration to study the impacts of immunotherapy on advanced gastroesophageal cancer.
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended pembrolizumab (Keytruda) manufactured by MSD to treat melanoma, the most common form of skin cancer.
NeoImmuneTech (NIT) has received Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for NT-I7 (efineptakin alfa) (rhIL-7-hyFc) to treat Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), one of the hardest-to-treat cancers.
Boehringer Ingelheim has signed an option to buy Trutino Biosciences, a San Diego-based biotech company.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute division of the NIH has awarded biotechnology company NovoMedix a $2m Phase II SBIR grant to further the development of novel small molecules that protect patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) from the long-term cardiotoxic impacts of doxorubicin chemotherapy.
Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) to CPI-613 (devimistat) to treat advanced unresectable biliary tract cancer.
Biotechnology firm Inceptor Bio has raised $37m from Series A funding round that was led by Kineticos Ventures.
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