BioSpace News Archive

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that the Company’s Compensation Committee granted 11 new employees inducement stock options to purchase an aggregate of 93,200 common shares, at a per share exercise price of $11.38, the closing price of Aurinia’s common stock on June 3, 2022, and an aggregate of 54,300 inducement restricted stock units.

Mirati Therapeutics presented the first clinical data demonstrating CNS-specific activity of a KRASG12C inhibitor in patients with NSCLC with active and untreated CNS metastases.

Checkpoint Therapeutics, Inc. (Checkpoint) (NASDAQ: CKPT), a clinical-stage immunotherapy and targeted oncology company, today announced the presentation of data from its pivotal trial of cosibelimab in metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) during the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

Sernova Corp. (TSX:SVA) (OTCQB:SEOVF) (FSE/XETRA:PSH), a clinical-stage company and leader in regenerative medicine cell therapeutics, today announced the presentation of clinical data from its Phase 1/2 clinical trial supporting the potential of its proprietary Cell Pouch System to provide a ‘functional cure’ for insulin-dependent diabetes.

HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a life science company advancing precision medicine through its innovative transcriptome-wide profiling technology, today announced its HTG EdgeSeq technology was highlighted in multiple scientific abstracts at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference held in Chicago, Illinois.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has appointed Michael L. Nance, MD as the Chief of the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, effective July 1, 2022.

Imago BioSciences, Inc. announced that a virtual investor event will be hosted by the company’s management team following the company’s presentations at EHA in Vienna, Austria and virtually.

Following continued international expansion in Q1 2022, QT Imaging, Inc. announced its intention to become a public company this year through a de-SPAC transaction.

Zealand Pharma A/S (Nasdaq: ZEAL) (CVR-no. 20045078), today presented data from its Phase 1 trial of dapiglutide at the 82nd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans and announced it will be supporting a Phase 2 investigator-initiated clinical trial of dapiglutide in obesity anticipated to commence by early 2023.

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (“Junshi Biosciences,” HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced today that the company highlighted its pipeline advances in immunotherapy drugs, including anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody toripalimab and anti-BTLA monoclonal antibody icatolimab (TAB004/JS004).