BioSpace News Archive

Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., an oncology company whose mission is to deliver highly effective, off-the-shelf, allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapies to treat cancer, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada.

Melzi Surgical, a surgical device company dedicated to creating innovative technologies that improve patient outcomes while reducing hospital expenses, announced that it has closed its Series A financing for a total of over $4.0 million.

Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMSI), a leading global manufacturer and marketer of healthcare technology, has received FDA clearance for the SCOUT Bx™ Delivery System, the first wire-free breast localization solution that can be deployed at the time of stereotactic or MRI-guided biopsy.

Blue Water Vaccines Inc. a biopharmaceutical company developing transformational vaccines to address significant global health challenges, announced that Brian Price, Ph.D., Head of Technology Strategy, will deliver a presentation during the World Vaccine Congress 2022 in Washington, DC.

Phosplatin Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on small molecule immunogenic therapies in oncology, reported today new non-clinical data on its lead candidate, PT-112, at the American Academy of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2022.

Leveraging novel unsupervised AI in a federated privacy preserving manner, Pangaea extracts new insights from clinical text data such as doctors’ notes and discharge summaries, which is validated by clinicians and has shown the potential to save $1 billion in annual healthcare costs related to cancer cachexia cases.

Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced results from the Phase 3 CheckMate -816 trial, which showed that neoadjuvant treatment with three cycles of Opdivo (nivolumab) in combination with chemotherapy significantly improved event-free survival (EFS), a primary endpoint, compared to chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Parkinson disease is second most frequently occurring neurodegenerative disease which is characterized by the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons.

Freenome, a privately held biotech company, will present research at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that measures the clinical impact of detecting precancerous adenomas for tests that screen for colorectal cancer, including multi-cancer early detection tests.

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced new data demonstrating the ability of the company’s investigational next-generation Guardant SHIELD™ multi-cancer assay to accurately detect early-stage cancers.