Fractyl Health Inc. closed $100 million in new financing Wednesday to expand and accelerate clinical development efforts to reduce dependence on insulin among type 2 diabetes patients. The startup, which changed its name from Fractyl Laboratories Inc., will use the financing to support additional late-stage clinical studies for determining the potential of its Revita DMR.
Scohia Pharma Inc. has secured an agreement with Huadong Medicine Co. Ltd., enabling the former to tap the greater China market for SCO-094, its GLP-1R and GIPR dual agonist.
Scohia Pharma Inc. has secured an agreement with Huadong Medicine Co. Ltd., enabling the former to tap the greater China market for SCO-094, its GLP-1R and GIPR dual agonist.
Data on the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. show that non-Hispanic white people are least likely to suffer from the disease. Yet to date most genetic studies of the glycemic traits that are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health have focused on individuals of European ancestry.
Data on the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. show that non-Hispanic white people are least likely to suffer from the disease. Yet to date most genetic studies of the glycemic traits that are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health have focused on individuals of European ancestry.
The FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) voted 10-7 May 27 that the benefits of Provention Bio Inc.’s teplizumab outweighed its risks, but the vote was not a ringing endorsement of the anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody biologic that could be the first disease-modifying treatment for people at risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Provention Bio Inc.’s diabetes candidate, teplizumab, is heading into a May 27 advisory committee meeting with a skinnier label than originally planned, which could signal a smoother path to approval. The positive briefing document the FDA put out Tuesday also suggested an approval path for what could be the first disease-modifying treatment available for type 1 diabetes (T1D).
PARIS – Readily3d SA has been awarded just under $600k by the European Union to develop a living model of the pancreas using its Tomolite 3D bioprinting technique. The European program, Enlight, boasts a total budget of $4.4 million provided by the European Innovation Fund 2020.
Information Data Systems Inc., doing business as One Drop, has earned the CE mark for its blood glucose prediction analysis engine to accurately forecast glucose levels up to eight hours in advance. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool is indicated for people living with prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, including those on oral medications and/or insulin regimens, and gestational diabetes.
Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD) has decided to spin off its diabetes care business, after nearly a century growing a broad portfolio of insulin injection devices. The transaction, which will result in a publicly traded company, tentatively dubbed Newco, is expected to be completed in the first half of 2022.
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