Intellegens, a company applying machine learning (ML) to accelerate innovation in R&D, has secured a £1.6m grant from Innovate UK, to apply ML in the emerging field of oligonucleotide therapies.
Sigma Mostafa is the chief scientific officer of KBI Biopharma, a development and contract manufacturing organization serving the biopharmaceutical industry.
Bora Pharmaceuticals, an international contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art facility in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
The Danish biotech Adcendo has bagged a Series A extension round of €31 million ($33.8 million), taking its Series A winnings so far to €82 million ($89.5 million). The round will bankroll the development of Adcendo’s pipeline of antibody-drug...
Experts from the health information specialist explain how the use of RWD and RWE has helped speed up and improve the development of therapies and vaccines.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institutes of Health, has awarded a total of $577m to establish nine Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Centers for Pathogens of Pandemic Concern.
Abzena, a global CDMO specializing in the integrated development and manufacture of complex biologics and bioconjugates, has secured $65M in new funding.
The Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine has been created via a five-year collaboration between GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Oxford.
Ardena has acquired Idifarma, a contract manufacturer of niche and highly potent generic and innovative drugs, from Suanfarma; the deal enables it to expand across Southern Europe and supports its strategy to become a leading global CDMO.
Decentralized trials and remote monitoring, long discussed, but never really taking off until COVID-19 disrupted studies last year, will be under the spotlight at the DIA 2021 Annual Meeting at the end of this month.
A research team including MIT, Harvard and Stanford researchers has raised $20m in seed funding for their effort to map out immune cells with machine learning.
Harbour BioMed and an unnamed ‘leader’ in immunology enter license agreement to develop, discover, and commercialize biologic therapeutics using the former’s transgenic mouse platform.
As technology has advanced, rare diseases have been met with therapies that target the cause of the condition, enabling the global market for orphan drugs to reach an expected $262bn by 2024.
While last month saw many pharma executives leaving their positions to head towards smaller biotech companies, this month saw members of the industry climbing the ladder from various different starting points.
The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development is out with a new study claiming that the average cost of bringing a new drug to market is around $2.6bn, though some are saying that number seems inflated.
Almac says it is in a unique position to offer Carbon-14 ADME radiolabeling for the growing antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) market and has already performed the service on a Pfizer candidate.
ACRO is aiming to increase recognition and analysis of the value CROs bring to drug development, spanning their role as strategic partners throughout the process, by funding academic research.
The genomics industry is already separating into two tiers; the
winners are those focused on targets and drug development and which
have products in or near the clinic, as well as strong
partnerships, says analyst
