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Merakris picks up NIH grant to support MTX-001 into diabetic foot ulcer trials
Discovery

Merakris picks up NIH grant to support MTX-001 into diabetic foot ulcer trials

Merakris Therapeutics, a Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based clinical-stage biotechnology company, has received a Direct-to-Phase II Small Business...

Jul 21
MaxCyte licenses cell-engineering platform to Genentech across multiple programs
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MaxCyte licenses cell-engineering platform to Genentech across multiple programs

MaxCyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXCT), a Rockville, Maryland-based cell-engineering company, has entered a multi-platform technology license with Genentech, a member...

Jul 21
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AbelZeta’s CD19/BCMA-targeted CAR-T advances into European fast-track for refractory lupus

AbelZeta Pharma, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with operations in Rockville, Maryland and Shanghai, China, announced receipt of PRIority MEdicines (PRIME) designation from…

Jul 20
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Acadia secures Fast Track designation for remlifanserin in Alzheimer’s disease psychosis

Acadia Pharmaceuticals has received US FDA Fast Track designation for remlifanserin, an investigational 5-HT2A receptor inverse agonist for Alzheimer’s disease psychosis, as…

Jul 20
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BioCytics partners with UNC Charlotte to explore the cancer dark genome

North Carolina-based biotech BioCytics has partnered with UNC Charlotte and Carolina BioOncology Institute to investigate viral and non-coding genomic sequences as potential…

Jul 20
Samsung Biologics expands into peptide manufacturing with USD 1.8b PolyPeptide acquisition
Business

Samsung Biologics expands into peptide manufacturing with USD 1.8b PolyPeptide acquisition

Samsung Biologics (KRX: 207940) has launched an all-cash public tender offer to acquire Switzerland-based PolyPeptide Group AG (SIX: PPGN) at CHF 44.31 per...

Jul 20
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BMS expands AI infrastructure deal with NVIDIA as pharma computing race accelerates

Bristol Myers Squibb is expanding its AI infrastructure through a deeper partnership with NVIDIA, deploying DGX SuperPOD systems built on NVIDIA’s Vera…

Jul 20
Tempus acquires Personalis for USD 1.5b to consolidate MRD leadership in precision oncology
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Tempus acquires Personalis for USD 1.5b to consolidate MRD leadership in precision oncology

Tempus AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: TEM) has agreed to acquire Fremont, California-based Personalis, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSNL) in a transaction valued at $1.5 billion in...

Jul 20
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Incyte adds Halozyme's ENHANZE tech to first-in-class myeloproliferative neoplasm therapy
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Incyte adds Halozyme's ENHANZE tech to first-in-class myeloproliferative neoplasm therapy

Halozyme Therapeutics (Nasdaq: HALO) has entered a global collaboration and license agreement with Incyte (Nasdaq: INCY) to apply Halozyme's ENHANZE drug...

Jul 20
Pfizer ends development of Seagen-derived mesothelin ADC
Development

Pfizer ends development of Seagen-derived mesothelin ADC

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), through its wholly owned subsidiary Seagen (Bothell, Washington), has discontinued clinical development of PF-08052666 (SGN-MesoC2,...

Jul 20
EpiCure Therapeutics secures NIH grant for SLC6A1 gene therapy development
Discovery

EpiCure Therapeutics secures NIH grant for SLC6A1 gene therapy development

EpiCure Therapeutics, Inc., a Seattle, Washington-based Allen Institute spinout, has received a USD 1.5 million NIH R44 grant to advance an AAV gene therapy...

Jul 20
4DMT's 4D-150 extends durability to two years in wet AMD, challenging anti-VEGF injection dependence
Development

4DMT's 4D-150 extends durability to two years in wet AMD, challenging anti-VEGF injection dependence

4DMT's PRISM Phase IIb data support advancing 4D-150 through a broad wet AMD population, reinforcing the durability case for its lead gene therapy ahead of...

Jul 20
Regenxbio reports five-year durability for sura-vec ahead of pivotal wet AMD data ⭐
Development

Regenxbio reports five-year durability for sura-vec ahead of pivotal wet AMD data ⭐

Regenxbio's ATMOSPHERE and ASCENT wet AMD trials—both pivotal, both fully enrolled—are set to read out topline efficacy data in the fourth quarter of 2026,...

Jul 20
Latigo files to IPO with non-opioid pain therapy entering late-stage development
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Latigo files to IPO with non-opioid pain therapy entering late-stage development

Latigo Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LTGO), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing non-opioid pain medicines, filed for an initial public...

Jul 20
BlossomHill files for Nasdaq IPO with EGFR-resistant lung cancer program
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BlossomHill files for Nasdaq IPO with EGFR-resistant lung cancer program

BlossomHill Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLSM), a clinical-stage oncology company whose lead drug candidate targets a treatment-resistant lung cancer...

Jul 20