BioSpace News Archive

Drug Development

Synlogic Presents New Preclinical Data from Synthetic Biotic™ Medicine, SYNB1020, Highlighting Beneficial Activity in Animal Model of Liver Disease at Digestive Disease Week®

Synlogic, Inc. announced that new preclinical data from SYNB1020, a Synthetic Biotic medicine currently being evaluated in an ongoing Phase 1b/2a clinical trial in patients with cirrhosis and elevated ammonia, were presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW 2018)

June 4, 2018
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BioMidwest

Exicure, Inc. to Present at Jefferies 2018 Healthcare Conference on June 8th at 2:30 p.m. EDT

Exicure, Inc. announced that Dr. David Giljohann, Chief Executive Officer of Exicure, will present at the Jefferies 2018 Healthcare Conference.

June 4, 2018
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FDA

Alnylam Receives Orphan Drug Designation from the United States Food & Drug Administration for ALN-TTRsc02, a Subcutaneously Delivered Investigational RNAi Therapeutic for the Treatment of Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis

ALN-TTRsc02 has the potential to be a once-quarterly, low volume, subcutaneously administered RNAi medication in the management of this serious disease.

June 4, 2018
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MediSapiens Announces Launch of the World’s First Scalable, HighPerformance, Cost-Efficient Real-Time Genomics Querying Solution

The cloud-based solution enables, for the first time on the market, working with massive genomic datasets in real-time while maintaining low operating costs.

June 4, 2018
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Drug Development

Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Showed Promising Anti-Tumor Activity in Patients with Advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) in Phase 2 KEYNOTE-158 Study

Merck announced interim data from a cohort of the Phase 2 KEYNOTE-158 study evaluating KEYTRUDA.

June 4, 2018
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TILT Biotherapeutics Wins a Grant from European Commission for a Phase 1 Clinical Trial

TILT Biotherapeutics Ltd has won a grant for a 2.5 M€ (~$ 2.9M) project, entitled UNLEASHAD, from the European Commission EIC SME Instrument.

June 4, 2018
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BioMidwest

Leica Microsystems Announces New Market Representation for Southern California Medical Market

Leica Microsystems announces new market representation for its neurosurgical, spine, ophthalmic, otolaryngologic, dental and plastic reconstructive microscope sales in Southern California.

June 4, 2018
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Bio NC

2018 “Be Their Muscle” Nationwide Philanthropic Event

Burn Boot Camp, a nationwide health & fitness franchise teams up with the MDA for their third annual “Be Their Muscle” philanthropic event to benefit the MDA.

June 4, 2018
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Drug Development

HUYA Bioscience International expanded oncology pipeline includes combination with checkpoint inhibitor for solid tumors

HUYA Bioscience International (HUYA) announced it is at a key stage in the company’s development of HBI-8000, HUYA’s lead novel epigenetic drug with important immunomodulatory properties.

June 4, 2018
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Biotech Beach

New Consumables Improve Analytical Instrument Performance

Laboratories can minimize interference and maximize instrument uptime with a novel range of flush solutions for liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) systems and a new line of ultrapure solvents for ultra-high-performance LC-MS (UHPLC-MS) systems.

June 4, 2018
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