BioSpace News Archive

MaaT Pharma Presents Positive Updated Results with its Lead Microbiome Biotherapeutic MaaT013 in Intestinal Acute GvHD at ASH 2020 Annual Meeting

Data showed MaaT013 to be safe and effective in 29 heavily pre-treated and immunocompromised gastrointestinal (GI) acute Graft-versus-Host-Disease (aGvHD) patients

December 7, 2020
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JW Therapeutics Presents Data from Pivotal Trial of Relma-cel at the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting

Data highlights relma-cel’s potential to become best-in-class CAR-T therapy

December 7, 2020
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Business

Zomedica Completes Internal “Launch Team” for Upcoming TRUFORMA™ Commercialization

Zomedica Corp., a veterinary health company creating point-of-care diagnostics products for dogs and cats, announced that, with the hiring of Debra Rock to lead the Company’s Marketing Department, its internal commercial leadership team is complete.

December 7, 2020
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BioMidwest

New Electromedical Technologies Strategic Partner to Aid in Driving Awareness and Sales

High profile firm WireBuzz boasts relationships with Fortune 500 firms and nation’s top health care companies

December 7, 2020
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Business

Microbix Announces Addition to Board of Directors Appointment of Anthony J. Giovinazzo, Accomplished Life Sciences Leader

Microbix Biosystems Inc., a life sciences innovator and exporter, announces that Mr. Anthony J. Giovinazzo, an accomplished leader in the international life sciences industry, has joined its Board of Directors.

December 7, 2020
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Deals

VBL Therapeutics Announces Insider Buying

VBL Therapeutics announced that the Company’s Chairman of the Board, Dr. Bennett Shapiro, the CEO, Prof. Dror Harats and additional Company board members and senior management, made open-market purchases of approximately 200K shares of VBLT, between November 24 and December 3, 2020.

December 7, 2020
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Business

Centene Appoints Brent Layton to Executive Vice President, Markets, Products, International, and Chief Business Development Officer

Centene Corporation announced that Brent Layton has been appointed to Executive Vice President, Markets, Products, International, and Chief Business Development Officer, effective January 1, 2021.

December 7, 2020
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Bio NC

RedHill Biopharma Extends Talicia® Unrestricted National and Regional Commercial Coverage to Over 40 Million Additional Americans

Approximately 35% of Americans are affected by H. pylori infection, a Group 1 carcinogen and the strongest risk factor for gastric cancer; eradication of H. pylori has been shown to reduce the risk of gastric cancer by up to 75%

December 7, 2020
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Drug Development

Actinium Presents Interim Data from Actimab-A CLAG-M Phase 1 Combination Trial at the 62nd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting

100% remission rate in the third dose cohort of 0.75 μCi/kg of Actimab-A (lintuzumab-225Ac) and standard regimen of CLAG-M

December 7, 2020
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BioMidwest

National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match® and CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research®) Note Studies of Older Adults With MDS Demonstrate Significant Survival Benefits of HCT

Initial results from a recent study indicate that for patients between the ages of 50 and 75, overall survival nearly doubled when patients with myelodysplastic syndrome received allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation when compared to other treatments.

December 7, 2020
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