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Cambium secures NCI funding to advance VIP checkpoint therapy for AML
Discovery

Cambium secures NCI funding to advance VIP checkpoint therapy for AML

Cambium Oncology LLC, an Atlanta-based biotech, has received a USD 1.05 million SBIR fast-track grant from the National Cancer Institute to advance...

Jul 22
NIH backs overdose-limiting oxycodone prodrug with USD 5.28m award
Discovery

NIH backs overdose-limiting oxycodone prodrug with USD 5.28m award

Ensysce Biosciences (La Jolla, California) has received a USD 5.28 million U01 cooperative agreement from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to continue...

Jul 22
Jacaranda takes SBIR Phase II grant for noise-induced hearing loss therapeutics
Discovery

Jacaranda takes SBIR Phase II grant for noise-induced hearing loss therapeutics

Jacaranda Bioscience, Inc., a San Francisco-based biotech, has received a USD 1.44 million SBIR Phase II award from the National Institute on Deafness and...

Jul 22
Alpha DaRT shows early signs of boosting pembrolizumab responses in head and neck cancer
Development

Alpha DaRT shows early signs of boosting pembrolizumab responses in head and neck cancer

Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel) (Nasdaq: DRTS, DRTSW) reported that Alpha DaRT, its intratumoral alpha-emitting radiotherapy device, produced a...

Jul 22
Imunon's IL-12 gene therapy shows early safety signal while reducing ovarian cancer residual disease
Development

Imunon's IL-12 gene therapy shows early safety signal while reducing ovarian cancer residual disease

Imunon, Inc. (Lawrenceville, New Jersey; Nasdaq: IMNN) reported preliminary Phase II data for IMNN-001 in newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer, drawn...

Jul 22
TYK Medicines secures USD 408 million from Qilu for China lung cancer drug rights
Business

TYK Medicines secures USD 408 million from Qilu for China lung cancer drug rights

TYK Medicines, Inc. (HKEX: 2410), a Huzhou, China-based oncology drug developer, has struck a license and collaboration agreement with Qilu Pharmaceutical...

Jul 22
Celldex ends barzolvolimab prurigo nodularis study after Phase II miss
Development

Celldex ends barzolvolimab prurigo nodularis study after Phase II miss

Celldex Therapeutics (Hampton, New Jersey; Nasdaq: CLDX) reported topline results from a Phase II study of subcutaneous barzolvolimab in prurigo nodularis,...

Jul 22
Roche's USD 700m deal for Nurix's BTK degrader clears antitrust review
Business

Roche's USD 700m deal for Nurix's BTK degrader clears antitrust review

Nurix Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NRIX) said its global collaboration with Roche to co-develop and co-commercialize bexobrutideg (NX-5948) has closed following...

Jul 22
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Estrigenix secures seed financing to advance Marquette- and UWM-sourced estrogen receptor-beta platform
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Estrigenix secures seed financing to advance Marquette- and UWM-sourced estrogen receptor-beta platform

Milwaukee-based Estrigenix Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing selective estrogen receptor-beta (ERβ) therapeutics, has announced the first...

Jul 22
Novartis Q2'26: AOC FDA filing and FSHD biomarker progress as H2 catalyst slate builds
Business

Novartis Q2'26: AOC FDA filing and FSHD biomarker progress as H2 catalyst slate builds

Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) held its Novartis Q2 2026 earnings call on July 21, 2026, during which executives detailed the company's first FDA submission for an...

Jul 22
Curatix secures NIAID support for drug-resistant fungal infection adjuvants
Discovery

Curatix secures NIAID support for drug-resistant fungal infection adjuvants

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) mechanism at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded a USD 1.0 million...

Jul 21
Nuvation expands safusidenib program into post-vorasidenib IDH1-mutant glioma
Development

Nuvation expands safusidenib program into post-vorasidenib IDH1-mutant glioma

Nuvation Bio Inc. (NYSE: NUVB) reported updated long-term data on Monday from the safusidenib clinical trial in IDH1-mutant glioma, alongside plans to...

Jul 21
Kolon's TG-C Phase III failure slows cell therapy push into knee osteoarthritis
Development

Kolon's TG-C Phase III failure slows cell therapy push into knee osteoarthritis

Kolon TissueGene's first pivotal test of a cell and gene therapy for knee osteoarthritis has come back negative, complicating a development program that...

Jul 21
Lupin spins out PRMT5 and SOS1 oncology programs into equity-backed Kaveri
Business

Lupin spins out PRMT5 and SOS1 oncology programs into equity-backed Kaveri

Lupin Limited (BSE: 500257, NSE: LUPIN) has moved two clinical-stage oncology assets off its own balance sheet and into a newly formed company, in a...

Jul 21
Engitix taps Lonza's ADC platform to target cancer through extracellular matrix discovery
Business

Engitix taps Lonza's ADC platform to target cancer through extracellular matrix discovery

Basel, Switzerland-based Lonza (SIX: LONN) has granted London-based Engitix Therapeutics a single-target license to its antibody-drug conjugate technology...

Jul 21