BioSpace News Archive

Business

The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics introduces its international team of scientists

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is pleased to introduce its international team of scientists at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics.

June 13, 2019
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Deals

Medical Fish Skin Company Kerecis Limited Completes $16 Million Series C Offering

Kerecis Limited, the company pioneering the use of fish skin in tissue regeneration, has completed a $16 million Series C funding round.

June 13, 2019
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Drug Development

Phase III PEMPHIX Study Showed That Genentech’s Rituxan (Rituximab) is Superior to Standard of Care in Achieving Sustained Remission in Patients with Pemphigus Vulgaris

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced positive top line results from the Roche-sponsored Phase III PEMPHIX study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Rituxan® (rituximab) compared to mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in adults with moderate to severe pemphigus vulgaris (PV).

June 13, 2019
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9 min read
Business

Elekta Increases Focus on Digitization - Hires Sukhveer Singh to Drive Elekta Digital strategy

Digital solutions are high on the agenda for most industries, especially within healthcare.

June 13, 2019
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2 min read
Genetown

Follica Announces Progression to Pivotal Study Following Positive Interim Data in Male Androgenetic Alopecia

Follica’s platform is designed to induce an “embryonic window” in adult skin via a proprietary form of micro-abrasion that initiates hair follicle neogenesis, the formation of new hair follicles from epithelial stem cells.

June 13, 2019
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Drug Development

Selective Effect Signal on Liver Cancer Tissue in Phase Ia Study With MIV-818

Medivir AB announces the results of an analysis of data from the first six patients with advanced cancer in the liver treated with increasing MIV-818 doses.

June 13, 2019
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Oncopeptides Will Host a Webcast on Monday, 17 June at 09:00 (CET) to Review and Update Presentations From European Hematology (EHA) Meeting

Oncopeptides AB, announces that the company will make a review and update on the presented data from the European Hematology Meeting on Monday, June 17, 2019, at. 09:00.

June 13, 2019
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Business

Terumo Enhances Coronary Interventional Product Portfolio By Securing Exclusive Global Rights to Orchestra BioMed’s Virtue® Sirolimus-Eluting Balloon (SEB) through Global Strategic Partnership

First and only non-coated drug-eluting angioplasty balloon that delivers a proprietary bioabsorbable, sustained-release formulation of sirolimus

June 13, 2019
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6 min read
Policy

First Lawsuit in Michigan Filed in the Pre-Cut Melon Salmonella Outbreak by The Lange Law Firm and the Zebrowski Law Firm

A Michigan man filed the first lawsuit in Michigan in the Salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut melons produced by Caito Foods. 22 people contracted Salmonella in this outbreak.

June 13, 2019
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2 min read
BioForest

Millennial Generation Deaths Due to Drug Misuse up 400 percent since 1999; Deaths from Drugs and Suicide at All-time Highs

New report provides solutions for stopping deaths of despair among Millennials

June 13, 2019
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5 min read