Press Releases

Genomic Testing Cooperative (GTC) today announced it received CE-IVD marks for its Hematology Profile Plus, Solid Tumor Plus as well as its liquid biopsy profiles for both solid tumors and hematology that are designed to provide a wide range of clinically actionable insights about a patient’s tumor.  The CE mark will allow GTC and its partner, TherapySelect (Heidelberg, Germany), to make available GTC’s menu of DNA and targeted transcriptome profiling for patients in Europe.

Clinigen Limited (‘Clinigen’ or the ‘Company’), the global pharmaceutical services company, announces it has nearly doubled its US site capacity to better service large-scale clinical trials. In the last 24 months, Clinigen has seen a large increase in demand from pharmaceutical and biotech companies for its tailored Clinical Supplies Management services including packaging and labelling, comparator drug sourcing, global storage and distribution, and biologic

Knight Therapeutics Inc., a pan-American (ex-USA) specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that it has entered into exclusive license and supply agreements with Rigel Pharmaceuticals granting Knight the rights to commercialize fostamatinib, an oral spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitor, in Latin America. Fostamatinib is commercially available in the United States under the brand name TAVALISSE® (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) and in Europe under the brand name TAVL

PharmaCyte Biotech, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing cellular therapies for cancer and diabetes using its signature live-cell encapsulation technology, Cell-in-a-Box®, announced today that it has initiated the first in a series of studies to test the ability of its pancreatic cancer therapy to treat malignant ascites. The initiation of this first study was made possible after PharmaCyte’s successful production of a Master Cell Bank as well as the demonstration tha

Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that it has acquired Satiogen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a San Diego-based company. Satiogen, now a wholly-owned Mirum subsidiary, was an existing licensing partner for LIVMARLI® (maralixibat) oral solution and volixibat. Through the transaction, Mirum obtained all Satiogen licensing payments and Satiogen-owned intellectual property relating to LIVMARLI and volixibat. “The acquisition of Satiogen is a strategic step that consolidates the

Aptamer Group plc, the developer of novel Optimer® binders to enable innovation in the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce that it has extended its collaboration agreement with PinotBio (Gyeonggi-do, Korea), a clinical-stage oncology-focused biotechnology company, to develop four new Optimer-drug conjugates for use as precision chemotherapeutics. The partnership was first initiated in June 2021 targeting haematological cancers, and the first phase of the project demon

Silo Pharma, Inc ., a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the use of psychedelics as a therapeutic, today announces that it in conjunction with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), researchers have successfully dosed patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. As part of this study, the researchers are collecting blood samples to determine the effects of psilocybin on inflammatory markers of patients who have exhibited signs of Parkinson’s.

Piramal Pharma Limited's Pharma Solutions business, a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), today announced that a new active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) plant at the company's site in Aurora, Ontario, has come online and successfully completed its initial production runs. The new plant, built as part of a CAD $30 million capital investment in the Aurora site, features more than ten thousand square feet of new manufacturing space and include

Emmes – a global, full-service Contract Research Organization (CRO) dedicated to supporting the advancement of public health and biopharmaceutical innovation, announces that it will introduce to market its third generation version of Advantage eClinical at Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) in San Diego, May 15th – 18th. The cloud platform of Advantage eClinical will be available as a standalone software product after undergoing more than two years of development. The system has be

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited, a clinical stage biotechnology company addressing major global infectious diseases through the development of fully synthetic CD8+ T cell Adaptive Vaccines, today announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been successfully coated onto Zosano Pharma Corporation’s (NASDAQ:ZSAN) proprietary microneedle patch system. Zosano’s patch consists of an array of approximately two thousand drug-coated titanium microneedles mounted on an adhesive patch