BioSpace News Archive

AVROBIO, Inc. announced that the company has granted non-statutory stock options for the purchase of up to an aggregate of 85,250 shares of the company’s common stock to three new employees as inducement awards under the company’s 2019 Inducement Plan, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635.

Financing accelerates Werewolf’s pipeline of systemically delivered, conditionally activated INDUKINE™ molecules into clinical stage development and supports efforts to build a leading immuno-oncology drug discovery and development team

LifeMine Therapeutics Inc, a biopharmaceutical company reinventing drug discovery by mining fungal biodiversity to develop mechanistically and structurally novel therapeutics, today announced the appointment of William G. Kaelin Jr., M.D., to its board of directors. Dr. Kaelin is the Sidney Farber Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvar

Gemini Therapeutics, a clinical stage precision medicine company developing innovative treatments for genetically defined age-related macular degeneration (AMD), today announced that GEM103, the Company’s investigational treatment for dry AMD, has been granted Fast Track designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Gemini is evaluating GEM103, a recombinant, human complement factor H (CFH), for it

Antibe Therapeutics Inc. (TSX: ATE, OTCQB: ATBPF), a clinical stage company leveraging its unique hydrogen sulfide platform to develop safer medicines for pain and inflammation, today announced the appointment of Dr. Don Haut to its Partnering Advisory Team.

Apollomics, Inc., an innovative biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery and development of mono- and combination- oncology therapies, and GlycoMimetics (Nasdaq: GLYC), today announced APL-106 (uproleselan) has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) from the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) for the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) (“PerkinElmer”) and Oxford Immunotec Global PLC (NASDAQ: OXFD) (“Oxford Immunotec” or the “Company”) are pleased to announce they have reached an agreement on terms under which PerkinElmer will acquire Oxford Immunotec (the “Acquisition”).

BrickBio, backed by Tiger Gene, L.L.C., has spun out EnCapsid, a first-in-class gene therapy company focused on developing enhanced adeno-associated virus delivery vectors using a technology that enables precise modification of all natural and engineered AAV capsids to enhance existing AAV capsids, as well as to create new classes of AAVs.

Translate Bio (NASDAQ: TBIO), a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company, announced today that it has completed enrollment and dosing in the dose cohorts comprising the second interim data analysis from its Phase 1/2 clinical trial for MRT5005 in cystic fibrosis (CF).

Graybug Vision, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRAY), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative medicines to treat chronic vision-threatening diseases of the retina and optic nerve, today announced the last patient visit in its GB-102 Phase 2b ALTISSIMO core trial (the 12-month treatment phase) in wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). ALTISSIMO 12-month topline data are expected to be announced in the second quarter of 2021