BioSpace News Archive

Aptar Pharma Launches First Metal-Free Nasal Spray Pump, Meeting Growing Need for Highly Recyclable Packaging.

Kite, a Gilead Company (NASDAQ: GILD), and Arcellx, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACLX), today announced the closing of the companies’ previously announced global strategic collaboration to co-develop and co-commercialize Arcellx’s lead late-stage product candidate, CART-ddBCMA, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Vicarious Surgical Inc. (“Vicarious Surgical” or the “Company”) (NYSE: RBOT, RBOT WS), a next-generation robotics company seeking to improve the cost, efficiency, and outcomes of surgical procedures, today announced it will report financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022 after the market closes on Monday, February 13, 2023.

Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCC, NASDAQ: CYCCP; “Cyclacel” or the “Company”) today announced that Spiro Rombotis, President and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present an overview of Cyclacel’s business and clinical programs at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference taking place at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square on February 6-9, 2023.

iTolerance, Inc. today announced it has entered into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, for the advancement of its novel iTOL-100 platform technology as a potential cure for Type 1 Diabetes.

Aprecia Pharmaceuticals today announced Owen Murray as its Chief Executive Officer.

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd announced today that the National Medical Products Administration (the “NMPA”) has conducted urgent review and approval under Special Examination and Approval of Drugs, and conditionally approved for marketing Deuremidevir Hydrobromide Tablets (project code: JT001/VV116, “VV116”), an oral nucleoside analog anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug, for the treatment of adult patients with mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”).

NovelMed announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Company’s investigational drug NM8074 to initiate an efficacy trial in patients with aHUS in coming months. NovelMed is advancing its anti-Bb antibody (NM8074) to treat patients with evidence of treatment-related resistance or complement-mediated relapses in aHUS, a rare disease with unmet need.

Throughout 2022, GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS), a leader in delivering improved health outcomes through genomic and clinical insights, contributed a significant amount – 22% – of total candidate gene submissions to GeneMatcher, a platform that facilitates new disease gene discovery and enables connections between patients, clinicians and researchers by allowing individuals to submit and search genes of interest.

Ocean Biomedical and Aesther Healthcare Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: AEHA) announced today the discovery of a second major anti-tumor pathway and therapeutic approach that targets CTLA-4, inhibiting the metastasis of malignant melanoma cells to the lung using a novel bispecific antibody approach.