Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Songbird Life Science, Starfish Medical.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Artificial Intelligence Defense Platform, Axonics, Biovica, Bose, Establishment Labs, Lambdavision, Medtronic, Nexstim, Puregraft, Space Tango, Todos Medical.
Without the COVID-19 pandemic, projected values of biopharma nonprofit collaborations and grants would be 72% and 30% below last year’s levels, although it is impossible to know what deals may have come to fruition in a world absent of the disruptive SARS-CoV-2 virus.
PERTH, Australia – Sydney-based Recce Pharmaceuticals Ltd. completed a placement of AU$27.95 million (US$19.69 million) to advance its synthetic anti-infective pipeline to address antibiotic-resistant superbugs and emerging viral pathogens.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Adial, Alexion, Blueprint, Brickell, Cardiol, Daiichi, Eisai, Galapagos, Gilead, Kaken, Neurophth, Olix, Oncoheroes, Rakuten, Remegen, Spirovant, Vertex, Xiangxue.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Abcellera, Amarna, Clover, Dynavax, Endo, Fulcrum, Grand River Aseptic, GSK, IGM, Immunoprecise, J&J, Janone, Lambdavision, Litevax, Molecular Partners, Novavax, Par, Rockwell, Valo.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Apeiron, Beyondspring, BMS, Genfit, Hansa, Marinus, Menarini, Novavax, Radius Rhizen, Uniqure.
Ionpath Inc., a developer of high-definition spatial proteomics, scored $18 million in a series B funding round led by Samsara Biocapital. The round also included global mass spectrometry leader Bruker Corp. as a new investor. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Ionpath plans to use the investment for continued development and deployment of the company’s Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI) technology, which provides quantitative protein imaging at a subcellular level.
As Johnson & Johnson (J&J) made public the launch of a phase III trial with its COVID-19 vaccine, officials from the company and others at the virtual Biopharm America meeting discussed modes of innovation in the pandemic era.