BioSpace News Archive

ViewRay, Inc. announced that the Company will host a physician-led informational discussion for investors and analysts during the 2019 American Society of Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago.

PIONYR Immunotherapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Alicia Levey, Ph.D., as Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer.

KPMG’s Clinical Intelligence (KCI) platform is helping clinicians improve the quality of care by furnishing them with pharmacogenomics data – information about how genes interact with medicines – from Coriell Life Sciences (CLS), supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific’s leading genetic analysis platform and content.

Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance will be a featured VMware customer partner at the VMworld 2019 conference, August 25-29 in San Francisco, California.

Medable Inc. announced the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has partnered with Medable to accelerate patient enrollment and increase patient retention in the Light Treatment Effectiveness study, which evaluates home versus office-based narrow band ultraviolet B phototherapy for the treatment of psoriasis.

Sigilon Therapeutics today announced it has received Orphan Drug Designation for SIG-001, an investigational therapy for hemophilia A that leverages Sigilon’s Shielded Living Therapeutics™ platform to implant cells engineered to produce stable blood plasma levels of factor VIII, a crucial clotting protein.

AtriCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRC), a leading innovator in surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation (Afib) and left atrial appendage (LAA) management, today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of additional labeling claims for AtriClip® LAA management devices, including changing the indication from occlusion of the LAA to exclusion, and also adding electrical isolation as a labeling claim

HemaCare Corporation (OTCMKTS: HEMA), a global leader and trusted brand in the customization of human-derived biological products and services for biomedical research, drug discovery, and cellular therapy process development, today announced a distribution agreement with Charles River’s subsidiary, Vital River, to provide the scientific community in China with direct access to healthy and disease-state human primary cells.

ESSA Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: EPIX; TSXV: EPI) (“ESSA” or the “Company”), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapies for the treatment of prostate cancer, is pleased to announce that, further to its previously announced equity offering, it has closed a public offering of equity securities of the Company in Canada and a concurrent private placement of equity securities in the United States for aggregate gross proceeds of US$36 million (the “Offering”).

CartiHeal, developer of Agili-C™, a proprietary implant for the treatment of cartilage lesions in arthritic and non-arthritic joints, announced today the first implantation of the Agili-C™ implant, as part of Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study by Joseph M. Berman, MD at Arlington Orthopedics Associates (AOA), Arlington, TX.