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Catalent Signs Agreement With AstraZeneca to Manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
Catalent, Inc. recently announced that Catalent Biologics will provide vial filling and packaging capacity to AstraZeneca PLC at Catalent’s manufacturing facility….
Nemera & Noble Announce Collaboration to Support Patients Who Self-Administer Medication
Nemera, world leader in design, development and manufacturing of drug delivery devices for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and generic industries, recently announced a collaboration with Noble….
Arch Biopartners Announces FDA Acknowledgement of its IND Application
Arch Biopartners Inc. recently announced the US FDA has received and acknowledged the Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for its lead drug Metablok (LSALT peptide),…
Pfenex Announces US Commercial Launch of Teriparatide Injection
Pfenex Inc. recently announced that its commercialization partner, Alvogen, has launched Teriparatide Injection in the US. Teriparatide Injection (also referred to as PF708 and Bonsity)…
Glyscend Therapeutics Completes $20.5-Million Financing Round to Advance Novel Oral Polymer Therapy
Glyscend Therapeutics recently announced the closing of a $20.5-million Series A financing round. Healthcare investors Brandon Capital Partners, through its Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF),…
Daré Bioscience Announces Receipt of $1.5 Million Under the Current Grant Supplement Award for Continued Development of User-Controlled Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive
Daré Bioscience, Inc. recently announced the receipt by its wholly owned subsidiary of $1.5 million in additional grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates…
Phathom Pharmaceuticals Provides Clinical Trial Status Update
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced it has randomized the first new patients in each of its two Phase 3 clinical trials since temporarily pausing new…
Agios Announces Clinical Proof-of-Concept Has Been Established in Phase 1 Study
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced that clinical proof-of-concept has been established based on a preliminary analysis in the Phase 1 trial of mitapivat (AG-348) in…
Melinta Therapeutics Enters Agreement to Acquire Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals
Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced that on June 4, 2020, it entered into a definitive merger agreement with Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. pursuant to which…
Relief Therapeutics & NeuroRx Expand Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Drug
Relief Therapeutics and its US partner, NeuroRx, Inc. recently announced that the Phase 2/3 clinical trial evaluating RLF-100 as a treatment for critical COVID-19 with…
Vectura Signs License & Development Agreement With Aerami Therapeutics
Vectura Group plc recently announced the signing of a global license and development agreement with Aerami Therapeutics Inc. for inhaled….
Ovid Therapeutics Announces Strategic Research Collaboration Focused on Accelerating the Development of New Treatments for Rare Neurological Diseases
Ovid Therapeutics Inc. recently announced a strategic research collaboration with Columbia University Irving Medical Center researchers to advance genetic based therapies for……
Immunic Announces FDA Allowance of its Phase 2 Trial of COVID-19 Drug
Immunic, Inc. recently announced receipt of regulatory allowance from the US FDA to initiate its Phase 2, CALVID-1 clinical trial of IMU-838, the company’s selective…
CURE Announces Exercise of Warrants; Obtains Valuable Proprietary Formulation & Dosage Technology
CURE Pharmaceutical Holding Corp recently announced it strengthened its balance sheet with the receipt of $1.4 million in cash from the exercise of warrants to…
Cresset & Inocardia to Develop In Silico Cardiac Safety Assay for Drug Candidate Screening
Cressey Discovery Services and Inocardia recently announced a 1-year collaboration to develop improved computational methods for cardiac safety assessment. This collaboration also includes the University…
Rezolute Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Phase 2b Candidate
Rezolute, Inc. recently announced the company has received rare pediatric disease designation (RPD) from the US FDA for RZ358, a potential treatment for congenital hyperinsulinism…
Precision BioSciences Announces Dosing of First Patient in Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial
Precision BioSciences, Inc. recently announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial of PBCAR269A, its third allogeneic chimeric antigen…
Arch Biopartners Submits IND Application to the FDA for Metablok (LSALT Peptide)
Arch Biopartners Inc. recently announced it has submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application to the US FDA for its lead drug Metablok (LSALT peptide)…
Seelos Therapeutics Announces Initiation of Preclinical Study of SLS-004 in Parkinson’s Disease
Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced the initiation of a preclinical study of SLS-004 in Parkinson’s disease (PD) through an all-in-one lentiviral vector targeting the synuclein…
Atriva Therapeutics to Develop ATR-002 for Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 in Phase 2 Study
Atriva Therapeutics GmbH recently announced a clinical strategy to treat patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 who require hospitalization. ATR-002, an oral small molecule, has…