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Private investors, governmental institutions and longtime life sciences investors provided funding to develop therapies for cancers, dermatological problems and acute ischemic strokes.
Janssen shared positive updates from ongoing trials on candidate therapies for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis at Digestive Disease Week in San Diego, California.
Vanda has again taken legal action against the FDA over its supposed failure to grant tradipant Fast Track designation. In its complaint, Vanda is challenging the FDA’s decision to deny the designation.
This summer, BioSpace will release a series of reports looking at the current state of diversity and inclusion in the life sciences.
Ocugen introduced NeoCart, which is designed to repair full-thickness lesions of the knee cartilage in adults, as a Phase III cell therapy platform technology.
A blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease launched in April by Quest Diagnostics has the potential to screen patients for risk years before symptoms appear.
Genocea’s board of directors voted to wind down ongoing operations and terminate its remaining staff, except for those necessary to see the company’s closing.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced Tuesday new positive results from the Phase III ILLUMINATE-C trial of lumasiran for advanced primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1).
If approved, etranacogene dezaparvovec would be the first gene therapy treatment for hemophilia B.
Two months after closing its Series A financing round, KaliVir Immunotherapeutics forged an exclusive licensing and collaboration agreement with Roche.
Caladrius Biosciences announced it was suspending enrollment in its Phase IIb FREEDOM study assessing xowna for coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) due to supply chain issues.
Imugene and City of Hope announced that the first patient has begun treatment in a Phase I clinical trial, investigating the safety and efficacy of CF33-hNIS in adults with metastatic or advanced tumors.
PRESS RELEASES
Expanded sweetener molecule development program aims to broaden access to plant-based sweetening solutions tailored to diverse customer food and beverage categories.
• $5.5 million financing that closed on April 2, 2026 together with $5.7 million in capital raised in Q1-2026, expected to provide Company with cash runway into 2027 • $4.5 million of accrued VAT refunds and R&D refundable tax credits from UK subsidiary begin maturing, including $1.9 million VAT cash refund expected in June 2026 • Successful EMA and Australia TGA (ATGA) meetings aligned around use of existing biomarker and pending release of 3-year overall survival data to support Conditional Marketing Authorisations (CMAs) for OST-HER2 in prevention or delay of recurrence in fully-resected, pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma (“Metastatic Osteosarcoma”) • 2.5-year overall survival data expected to be released during ASCO 2026 • EMA and ATGA have aligned on key design aspects of confirmatory Phase 3 Metastatic Osteosarcoma protocol required to have commenced prior to grant of CMAs or FDA BLA, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint • Upcoming U.S. FDA Type C meeting and U.K. MHRA SAM meeting to align with EMA & ATGA prior to Australia Clinical Trial Notification submission for Phase 3, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint. U.S. FDA (“FDA”) Pre-BLA meeting to confirm alignment on surrogate and primary clinical efficacy endpoints with EMA/ATGA, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint, and seek decisions on rolling review acceptance and RMAT designation following the EMA and U.K. MHRA granting ATMP designation (EMA/MHRA RMAT equivalent) for OST-HER2 in Metastatic Osteosarcoma • OS Animal Health S-1 filing for proposed ‘Go-Public’ transaction and receipt of SEC comments