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Sonoma Bio announced its plans to erect an 83,000-square-foot operations facility in Seattle, while Thermo Fisher opened a new viral vector manufacturing plant in Massachusetts.
The Oxford University team behind the global COVID-19 RECOVERY study is now focusing its attention on developing a new monkeypox treatment.
Anthony Quinn has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer and transitioned to an advisory role. Jim Kastenmayer, general counsel, will assume the post on an interim basis.
In an interview with Reuters, AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said Tuesday that he isn’t sure if the company will continue developing vaccines. He also hinted at potential M&A action.
Layoffs at Atara have begun weeks after the Bay Area company announced plans to terminate 20% of its staff under a new corporate strategy focused on the innovation within the company’s pipeline.
Money is now flowing into promising platforms for prostate cancer from AdvanCell, mRNA therapeutics from eTheRNA, hepatitis from Bluejay and more.
Of the 1,400 jobs Novartis plans to eliminate in Switzerland, about half will include leadership and management positions, the company reported Monday.
While there has been a perception that young people are smarter or more creative, analyses from the Kellogg School of Management show most scientists make their breakthroughs later in life.
Scientists found that combining cytokine drug factory implants with PD-1 protein targeting checkpoint inhibitors can eliminate advanced-stage mesothelioma tumors in mouse models.
Researchers showed they have developed artificial intelligence that may be able to detect Parkinson’s disease using nocturnal breathing signals.
BrainVectis will begin assessing a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease in France after receiving clearance from health authorities there to conduct a Phase I/II study.
A day after Pfizer and partner BioNTech submitted an EUA request to the FDA for their booster shot targeting Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, the regulator appears close to approving it.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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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
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