Bright Peak Therapeutics Inc. has raised $90 million in a series C financing. Proceeds will be used to accelerate a pipeline of next-generation immunotherapies and advance BPT-567 into a phase I/IIa trial.
Calidi Biotherapeutics Inc. has conducted studies in animals to determine the safety and efficacy of oncolytic virotherapy (OV) with CLD-201 (Supernova-1) to treat solid tumors.
Calidi Biotherapeutics Inc. has announced a collaboration with Siga Technologies Inc. to support the development of Calidi’s systemic and targeted Rtnova (CLD-400) virotherapy platform, which has the potential to provide a universal treatment for all tumor types.
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) reported data from a study that aimed to assess the effects of the highly selective telomerase inhibitor, BIBR-1532, on immune activation induced by radiotherapy (RT).
Odimma Therapeutics SAS has developed ODI-2001, a new biological from the combination of neoantigen-expressing DNA vector, an anti-CTLA-4 antibody and an attenuated poxvirus with the aim of increasing the immune response against tumors.
Nutcracker Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed a new drug candidate for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma – NTX-472 – along with results from in vivo studies performed to evaluate its efficacy in mice and macaques.
Shanghai Fudan-Zhangjiang Bio-Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has received IND clearance in China by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to conduct a phase I trial of its antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) FZ-AD005 for advanced solid tumors.
Pierre Fabre Laboratories (Pierre Fabre SA) has filed an IND application to the FDA to initiate a first-in-human trial with PFL-002 (VERT-002) for solid tumors, including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).