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Chroma Medicine Announces Exclusive License Agreement with the Whitehead Institute for Novel Epigenetic Editing Technology

Chroma Medicine, a genomic medicine company pioneering single-course epigenetic editing therapeutics, today announced it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the Whitehead Institute to access intellectual property and technology developed in the lab of Chroma co-founder Jonathan...

How Space Research Helps Fight Infection and Aging Back on Earth

When an unmanned NASA spacecraft landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a few days before Christmas 2023, its payload included liver cells from UC San Francisco that had spent two months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. Physician-researcher Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD, sent the cells to...

Neurona Therapeutics Receives FDA’s Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) Designation for NRTX-1001 in Focal Epilepsy

Neurona Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company advancing regenerative cell therapies for disorders of the nervous system, today announced that the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company’s lead product candidate, NRTX-1001, the RMAT expedited program...

Delve Bio Announces Clinical Data on the Use of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (mNGS) to Identify Pathogens Causing Central Nervous System Infections

Delve Bio, a pioneer in metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) for infectious diseases, in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), today announced data from a study highlighting the utility and diagnostic yield of mNGS testing in cases of infectious meningitis...

Akili Interactive and Virtual Therapeutics Announce Entering Into Definitive Merger Agreement to Establish Leading Digital Health Company

Akili to operate as wholly owned subsidiary of Virtual Therapeutics 

Harmony Biosciences Acquires Epygenix Therapeutics, Inc., Adding Late-Stage Epilepsy Franchise to Growing Pipeline of Innovative CNS Assets

Harmony Biosciences announced the acquisition of Epygenix Therapeutics, Inc., accelerating its growth strategy by adding a rare epilepsy franchise to its expanding late-stage pipeline of innovative CNS assets. Congratulations to Scott Baraban, the UCSF inventor.

Enlaza Therapeutics Raises $100 Million through Its Series A Financing, Led by the Life Sciences Group of J.P. Morgan Private Capital

Enlaza Therapeutics, the first covalent biologic platform company, today announced a $100 million Series A financing. The financing will be used to further develop Enlaza’s proprietary covalent protein technologies and to support advancement of wholly owned pipeline programs to the clinic. Lei...

Arsenal Biosciences Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of AB-2100 in Development as a Treatment for Clear-cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Arsenal Biosciences, a clinical-stage programmable cell therapy company focused on engineering advanced CAR T-cell therapies for solid tumors, today announced that the first patient had been dosed with AB-2100 in a multi-center, open-label Phase 1/2 clinical trial for patients with clear-cell renal...

Panasonic and Shinobi Therapeutics Partner to Develop Efficient and Cost-Effective iPS Cell Therapy Manufacturing Technology

Shinobi Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing a new class of immune evasive iPS cell therapies, today announced a partnership with Panasonic Holdings Corp and Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA). Through this strategic collaboration, the organizations...

Neurona Therapeutics Presents Positive Clinical Update from NRTX-1001 Cell Therapy Trial in Adults with Drug-resistant Focal Epilepsy at American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 2024 Annual Meeting

Neurona Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on advancing regenerative cell therapies for the potential treatment of neurological disorders, today will present updated preliminary data from its ongoing open-label Phase 1/2 clinical trial of NRTX-1001 in adults with drug-...