CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) has announced it will award US$2 million to Immunethep SA to develop a conjugated peptide-based vaccine to prevent infections from all invasive serotypes of Escherichia coli.
Kairos Pharma Ltd. has announced that through its academic partnership with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai has received $600,000 in funding from the Department of Defense lung cancer research program to advance the development of ENV-205, a new drug to treat chemotherapy drug resistance and cachexia.
Cure Rare Disease has been awarded a $5.69 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to advance the development of an antisense oligonucleotide therapy for spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3).