Exavir Therapeutics Inc. has received a US$3 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division of the National Institutes of Health, to support the development of XVIR-110.
Researchers at City of Hope were awarded $32.3 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to support three novel phase I clinical trials evaluating innovative cell and gene therapy treatments for patients with HIV, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and severe aplastic anemia.
Amygdala Neurosciences Inc. has been awarded a $2.0 million NIH grant to support IND-enabling and early-stage development of its selective, reversible, orally bioavailable aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) inhibitor ANS-858 to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD).
Non-profit Solve GNE LLC has raised over $2.5 million and announced sponsored research agreements to help advance research in hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), or GNE myopathy (GNEM).
A team of scientists led by The Wistar Institute has been awarded a 5-year National Cancer Institute (NCI) Program Project Grant valued at more than $12 million to explore the role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in epithelial cancers. The project, which brings together scientists from The Wistar Institute and Harvard University, will focus entirely on the EBV-epithelial cancer link and look at metabolic and epigenetic vulnerabilities simultaneously.
Nysnobio Inc. has received a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to assist the advancement of the company’s lead parkin gene replacement therapy candidate, NB-001. The funding will support product manufacturing to enable IND safety studies in preparation for clinical trials evaluating NB-001 in Parkinson’s disease patients with biallelic loss-of-function mutations in the parkin gene, or parkin-PD.
Exevir Bio BV has been awarded a 2-year R&D grant of €1.6 million by Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) for preclinical research towards prophylactic and therapeutic solutions for dengue.
Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp.’s wholly owned subsidiary DMK Pharmaceuticals Corp. has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the development of a novel bifunctional small molecule for the treatment of alcohol use disorder.
TFF Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been awarded a Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue development of a novel, mucosal, multivariant influenza vaccine using the company’s thin film freezing (TFF) technology.
Aegis Life Inc. and its parent company Entos Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Entos) have entered into a grant agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the area of infectious disease.