Press Releases

Touchlight, a pioneering leader in synthetic DNA technology, is proud to announce that its Morelands Facility has been named the 2025 Innovation Winner in the prestigious International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA). This distinguished recognition highlights Touchlight’s groundbreaking approach to DNA manufacturing and underscores its commitment to innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.  Touchlight’s

Septerna, Inc. and Novo Nordisk today announced an exclusive global collaboration and license agreement to discover, develop and commercialise oral small molecule medicines for obesity, type 2 diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases. The companies will initially commence four development programmes for potential small molecule therapies directed to one or more select G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets, including the GLP-1, GIP and glucagon receptors. &ldquo

Benuvia Operations, LLC (Benuvia), a U.S.-based global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) supplier, today announced the execution of a multi-year supply agreement with a prominent U.S. pharmaceutical company. Under the agreement, Benuvia will provide its Dronabinol API to support the company's product development activities. The agreement enables the pharmaceutical company to reference Benuvia's U.S. Drug Mas

EnGeneIC Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based biotechnology company and leader in innovative cancer therapies, has announced the successful dosing of the first patient in its open-label, multicentre, Phase I/IIa clinical trial at Mater Hospital, Sydney. The trial (ENG19) is an essential next step in progressing EnGeneIC’s novel platform technology through the clinic and to market. It will assess the safety and efficacy of EGFR-targeted EDVTM (EnGeneIC Dream Vector) nanocells carrying the super-cytot

AbTherx, Inc., a biotechnology company with innovative transgenic technologies that enable and accelerate antibody discovery, today announced a multi-program antibody discovery partnership with Spice Biotechnologies. The partnership will leverage AbTherx’s suite of innovative Atlas™ Mouse technologies to deliver antibodies against targets selected by Spice Bio. AbTherx’s antibody discovery platform is built on two decades of experience and utilizes evolutionary int

Longeveron Inc, a clinical stage regenerative medicine biotechnology company developing cellular therapies for life-threatening and chronic aging-related conditions, today announced that it has been selected as a Semi-Finalist Team and one of the Top 40 Teams receiving a $250,000 Milestone 1 Award in the XPRIZE Healthspan competition. “We’re proud to be a Semifinalist team of XPRIZE Healthspan, a 7-year, $101 million global competition that aims to revolutionize the way

AstraZeneca’s Trixeo Aerosphere, already licensed for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adults, has now been approved for use in the UK with an innovative, next-generation propellant with near-zero Global Warming Potential (GWP).1,2 This is the first medicine delivered by a pressurised metered-dose inhaler (pMDI) approved with the propellant that has 99.9% lower GWP than propellants used in currently available pMDIs.2 Trixeo with the next-generation propel

Think Bioscience, a small molecule discovery company that leverages synthetic biology to find novel binding pockets on challenging drug targets, and CrystalsFirst, a leader in structure-based drug discovery solutions, today announced that their ongoing collaboration has led to the identification of novel mechanisms of action for several difficult targets in Think Bioscience’s pipeline. Building on this success, the two companies have agreed to expand their partnership. In thei

Eli Lilly and Company and Purdue University announced today a significant expansion of their long-standing alliance, with Lilly's planned investment of up to $250 million in the collaboration over the next eight years. This partnership, which has the potential to be the largest ever industry-academic agreement of its kind in the United States, will seek to accelerate innovation at every stage of the pharmaceutical pipeline. The Lilly-Purdue 360 Initiative aims to achieve several

Zealand Pharma A/S a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative peptide-based medicines, today announces that all closing conditions in the collaboration and license agreement with Roche announced on March 12, 2025 have been satisfied, including regulatory conditions, and the agreement has become effective. “We are incredibly excited to launch this partnership, which represents a step change to realize Zealand Pharma’s vision of becoming