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Delve Bio Launches to Commercialize its Metagenomic Sequencing Platform for Infectious Disease Diagnosis

Congratulations to Charles Chiu, Joe DeRisi, Michael Wilson and the Delve Bio team on their $35 million in Series A financing led by Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund II and joined by Section 32 and Google Ventures!  UCSF is happy to partner with this talented and experienced team of scientists and...

Neurona Therapeutics Presents One-Year Data on the First Patient Treated with NRTX-1001 Cell Therapy in an Ongoing Phase I/II Trial for Drug-resistant Focal Epileps

Neurona Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company advancing regenerative cell therapies for the treatment of neurological disorders, announced the presentation of new data from the open-label, single-arm, starting dose-level of its ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial of a one-time dose...

Exai Bio Presents New Multi-Cancer Early Detection Data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2023 Annual Meeting

Exai Bio today announced new data from a 3,300 subject study demonstrating that its novel RNA- and AI-based platform can detect multiple cancer types at the earliest stages using a single, standard blood sample. Exai Bio's core technology is founded on UCSF research done by Hani Goodarzi, PhD.

Mission Bio Launches Tapestri v3 to Rapidly Accelerate Rare Cell Detection

Mission Bio today announced breakthrough improvements to the Tapestri® Platform and its core chemistry that enable highly confident detection of rare cells for a range of applications. UCSF Researcher Adam Abate, PhD, is the lead inventor. More

UCSF NewCo Vevo Therapeutics has been Selected to Join the AWS Startups Generative AI Accelerator

Only 21 leading startups in the Generative AI space (out of 1200+ companies) were selected to be in the inaugural #AWSGenAIAccelerator cohort. The Vevo team, which already enjoys the support of some of the most esteemed thought leaders in the space (their advisors Richard Socher, Bo Wang, Michael...

Pionyr Immunotherapeutics’ Phase 1a Study of TREM1-targeting Antibody PY159 for the Treatment of Solid Tumors Featured at ASCO 2023

 Pionyr Immunotherapeutics, a company developing first-in-class Myeloid Tuning antibody therapeutics that enhance the body’s antitumor immunity by altering, or “tuning,” immune cells within the tumor microenvironment, announced today that PY159, a monoclonal antibody targeting TREM1 (triggering...

Aclarion Announces Publication of 2YR Outcomes in Groundbreaking Clinical Trial

The success rate at 2 years for discogenic low back pain surgeries was 85% for patients whose treatment strategy was consistent with Nociscan-identified discs, a 22 percentage point improvement over patients whose treatment strategy was inconsistent with Nociscan-identified discs (85% vs. 63%; p=0....

Exai Bio Presents New Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Early Detection Data at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2023 Annual Meeting

Exai Bio today announced new data demonstrating that its novel RNA- and AI-based platform detected non-small cell lung cancer with high accuracy, at the earliest stages and for the smallest tumors, in both training and validation cohorts. In the independent validation cohort, stage I sensitivity...

Aer Therapeutics Closes $36 Million Series A to Advance Development of AER-01, an Innovative Mucolytic for the Treatment of Lung Diseases

Aer Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel inhaled treatments for muco-obstructive lung diseases, today announced the closing of a $36 million Series A financing. Funding was received from a syndicate of premier life science industry investors, including Canaan, OrbiMed, and...

The First FDA-Approved Video Game Was Developed in San Francisco

A video game prototype developed by Dr. Adam Gazzaley’s lab, called NeuroRacer, found that playing the 3D race car game improved cognitive performance in healthy older adults. The technology underlying that game is the foundation for EndeavorRx, which is made for children ages 8-12 with ADHD.  ...