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Simbec-Orion, Europe’s leading full-service boutique CRO, announces its new unified brand offering comprising the divisions previously known as Simbec Research, Orion Clinical, Orion Santé and Seirian Laboratories.
Evotec SE announced the formation of Breakpoint Therapeutics GmbH, a spin-off company focusing on the development of Evotec’s DNA damage response (“DDR”) portfolio, comprising discovery-stage assets and drug targets that promise broad therapeutic application in a variety of cancers.
Biotech and pharma companies strengthen their executive leadership and board positions.
Companies from across the globe provide information on agreements and pipeline updates.
Century’s iPSCs, which are stem cells that can be generated from adult stem cells, have unlimited self-renewing capacity, the company said, which enables multiple rounds of cellular engineering.
Biotech and pharma companies tap new members of executive leadership teams and boards.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Vaxess Technologies is inching closer to developing a bandage-like product that will be able to administer vaccines and other therapeutics through the skin.
Martine Rothblatt cofounded satellite radio company Sirius XM in 1990 but has since moved into biotech.
Encoded said its approach to gene therapy will address key limitations of current gene therapy technology and unlock new treatment opportunities.
The company will focus on chemoproteomics, which it calls a way of interrogating proteins in living systems. This allows them to identify potential new binding targets on proteins, which will allow the development of small-molecule drugs.
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