Trevi Therapeutics has announced significant milestones in its clinical programs for Haduvio (nalbuphine), an investigational therapy aimed at treating chronic cough in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and refractory chronic cough (RCC). 4 October 2024
Paris-based asset manager Kurma Partners has raised 140 million euros ($154 million), successfully completing the first closing of Biofund IV 4 October 2024
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and US biotech incubator Flagship Pioneering have agree to collaborate on advancing health and sustainability outcomes in Singapore and the broader Asia Pacific region. 4 October 2024
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has removed the partial clinical hold on delpacibart etedesiran (del-desiran/AOC 1001), an investigational treatment designed to address the root cause of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), under development by US biotech Avidity Biosciences . 4 October 2024
Caliway Biopharmaceuticals has successfully completed its initial public offering, raising NT$6.4 billion ($206 million), the largest IPO in Taiwan's biotech industry to date. 3 October 2024
US clinical-stage biotech Arcus Biosciences has entered into a clinical trial collaboration with AstraZeneca on renal cancer treatments. 3 October 2024
PeptiDream says that its wholly-owned PDRadiopharma subsidiary has entered into a strategic partnership with French nuclear medicines firm Curium. 3 October 2024
Shares of UK drug developer Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals rose as much as 9% and closed up 5.9% at 1.70 pence yesterday on the news of a further investment from Prevail Partners. 3 October 2024
UK-based biotech Resolution Therapeutics has announced the completion of a £63.5 million ($76.8 million) series B financing round led by Syncona. 3 October 2024
Liquidia Corporation and Pharmosa Biopharm have amended the current exclusive licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of L606. 3 October 2024
Timing can be crucial in biotech, and any company that can help optimize radiopharmaceuticals to fight cancer is likely to a hot property right now, given the recent popularity of the field among investors and drugmakers. 2 October 2024
UK-based biotech LoQus23 Therapeutics has closed a £35 million ($43 million) series A financing round, led by Forbion, with support from SV Health Investors' Dementia Discovery Fund and Novartis Venture Fund. 2 October 2024
Privately-held UK biotech Curve Therapeutics today announced the further strengthening of its leadership team with the appointments of Andre Hoekema as chairman of the board and Cora Griffin as head of business development. 2 October 2024
NK:IO, a London startup developing a cell therapy for treating solid tumors, has announced the appointment of a permant chief executive and the finalization of a seed funding round. 2 October 2024
Spanish epigenetics firm Oryzon Genomics has announced the receipt of the official meeting minutes from a recent End-of-Phase II meeting for vafidemstat in borderline personality disorder (BPD) with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2 October 2024
Halda Therapeutics, a US biotech company advancing cancer treatments, announced the appointment of Christian Schade as president and chief executive. 1 October 2024
Privately-held Scotland-based EnteroBiotix has announced the appointments of Dr James Barnes as chief operating officer (COO) and Chris Lea as chief financial officer (CFO). 1 February 2024
US gene therapy company Avrobio and privately-held biotech Tectonic Therapeutic today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction. 31 January 2024
US cell and gene therapy biotech 2seventy bio saw its share close up almost 15% at $4.01 yesterday, after it announced that it is transforming the company. 31 January 2024
Japan has recently approved Dutch immunology specialist argenx’ (Euronext: ARGX) Vyvdura (efgartigimod alfa and hyaluronidase-qvfc) subcutaneous (SC) injection for the treatment of adult patients with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), who do not have sufficient response to steroids or non-steroidal immunosuppressive therapies (ISTs). 31 January 2024
Danish biotech Ascendis Pharma today announced the formation and launch with Frazier Life Sciences of Eyconis Inc, a separate company created to develop, manufacture, and commercialize TransCon ophthalmology assets globally. 30 January 2024
Two Californian firms, Gilead Sciences and Arcus Biosciences, have doubled down on their commitment to developing new therapies using the TIGIT pathway. 30 January 2024
Enterprise Therapeutics, a UK biopharma dedicated to the discovery and development of novel therapies for respiratory disease, has closed a £26 million ($33.1 million) Series B follow-on financing round, led by Panakes Partners. 30 January 2024
Austrian arenaviral technology firm Hookipa Pharma yesterday announced a reprioritization, after it received a notification from Swiss pharma giant Roche that it has decided to terminate their collaboration. 30 January 2024
California, USA-based Skye Bioscience’s shares edged up 2.4% to $2.38 in early trading, as it announced a $50.25 million private placement equity financing. 29 January 2024
Swedish immuno-oncology company Alligator Bioscience today announced positive top-line results from the OPTIMIZE-1 Phase II study of the company’s lead asset mitazalimab in first line metastatic pancreatic cancer. 29 January 2024
The US subsidiary of South Korea’s Celltrion is the latest to file for US approval of a biosimilar version of Swiss pharma giant Roche’s Actemra (tocilizumab). 29 January 2024
Shares of US clinical-stage biotech firm Vera Therapeutics leapt more than 19% to $30.18, after the company announced positive 72-week data from the open label extension (OLE) period of its Phase IIb ORIGIN clinical trial of atacicept in participants with IgA nephropathy (IgAN). 29 January 2024
Osivax, a French biopharma developing vaccines to provide broad-spectrum protection against highly mutating infectious viruses and diseases, has named Nicola Groth its new chief medical officer (CMO). 26 January 2024
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided an update on its review of the New Drug Application (NDA) for Yutrepia (treprostinil) inhalation powder to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD). 26 January 2024
Shares of Dutch biotech LAVA Therapeutics shot up 43% to $2.23 by close of trading on Thursday, after it revealed a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with US pharma giant Merck & Co. 26 January 2024
Korean immuno-oncology company CanariaBio has taken a stock market battering following the failure of its Phase III trial of oregovomab, an antibody targeting CA125, for ovarian cancer patients. 25 January 2024
Belgian cell therapy biotech BioSenic will, for the first time, share post hoc data on its late-clinical asset JTA-004 at the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress 2024. 25 January 2024
UK-based dermatology company SkinBioTherapeutics is to acquire the issued share capital of Dermatonics, a specialist in innovative topical and dermatological products in the skincare and woundcare space. 25 January 2024