Press Releases

AcuraBio (formerly Luina Bio), a leading Australian biopharmaceutical CDMO, has been acquired by biotech investor Dr. Glenn Haifer and Ampersand Capital Partners, a global healthcare private equity firm. With more than two decades of experience, AcuraBio is a globally focussed organization bringing innovative therapeutics to market for customers in the biotech, pharmaceutical, and animal health industries. AcuraBio provides recombinant proteins and vaccines, and complex live biother

Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc., a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel, antibody-based therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer, today announced that a meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (“ODAC”) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has been scheduled for October 28, 2022 to review the Company’s Biological License Application (“BLA”) for its product candidate

Mindset Pharma Inc., a drug discovery and development company focused on creating novel, optimized, next-generation psychedelic and non-psychedelic medications to treat neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders with unmet medical needs, today announced that through its discovery work, it has identified three additional families of highly novel, non-tryptamine, next-generation psychedelic compounds. Mindset’s ambition since its formation has been to lead the medical psychedel

WideTrial, Inc. will provide key regulatory support to a personalized cancer treatment program run by the Jaime Leandro Foundation for Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines (JLF) in association with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In a basket trial for neoantigen synthetic long peptide vaccines, patients with advanced malignancies will be given a customized mix of neoantigen peptides based on their individual tumor mutation profiles.  Cancer patients who do not mee

EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals, the clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing disease-modifying therapeutics for chronic respiratory disorders, has received regulatory and ethics approval to commence a Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge clinical trial with lead molecule EP395. EP395 is an orally available macrolide or ‘Barriolide™’ with reduced antimicrobial activity which aims to address the unmet medical need for a treatment for COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disea

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a license agreement relating to its preclinical asset, Nepicastat, with Asieris Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company headquartered in China. Under the terms of the agreement, Acorda will receive an upfront payment of $500,000, and up to an additional $7 million based on the achievement of regulatory milestones. Acorda will also receive a royalty on future net sales. Nepicastat is a small molecule drug and the lic

Porton Advanced Solutions and Kun Tuo Medical Research and Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kun Tuo") established a strategic partnership in gene and cell therapy R&D, manufacturing and clinical services to accelerate the development and industrialization of innovative drugs. Through this strategic cooperation, Porton Advanced and Kun Tuo will fully leverage their strengths, client resources and professional team capabilities to deepen coope

Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Berhad , a leading genomics and biopharmaceutical specialist, today announced that the Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities for the distribution of biopharmaceutical and genomics products and services with Ajlan & Bros Medical Company. Ajlan, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is part of a multinational conglomerate established in 1979 with extensive global private equity, real estate and industrial investme

IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), today announced the publication of a report that demonstrates how a new 3D screening tool can help accelerate the development of cancer treatments through a new testing method that increases the number of tests on solid tumor samples by up to 50 times and potentially facilitates larger-scale testing of innovative imm

 PCI Pharma Services (PCI), a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced the opening of its Clinical Services Center of Excellence in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. This is the first facility of its kind to serve the growing needs of global biologics manufacturers in the New England region. The new facility offers greater flexibility and scalability for secondary packaging, distribution and cold chain storage of innovative therapies in develop