Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated for review, the application for tepotinib for the treatment of adult patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring mesenchymal-epithelial ...
Boston and Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - SOPHiA GENETICS, leader in Data-Driven Medicine, announced today that Bram Goorden joined its Executive team, holding the dual role of Chief Commercial Officer and Head of North America. Goorden comes to SOPHiA from Foundation Medicine Inc. (Cambridge, MA) where he held the role of VP of International Business and ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for UK and US based media - Merck out-licenses Phase IIb-ready atacicept to Vera Therapeutics - Phase IIa trial conducted by Merck shows promising results in IgA nephropathy (IgAN), also known as "Berger's disease" - Out-licencing deal includes 10% equity in Vera Therapeutics and up to EUR 605 million in development ...
Dublin (ots/PRNewswire) - Magnostics is leading a consortium of University and National Researchers to develop and launch Viral RNA Extraction Kits for detection of COVID-19. A team of scientist from Saint Vincent University Hospital, National Virus Reference Laboratory, University College Dublin, and Magnostics ...
Dublin (ots/PRNewswire) - - Avectas announces residency at Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JLABS @ Toronto, central to the Canadian bio-hub. - Jessica Schwaber, PhD appointed Scientific Director of Cell and Gene Therapy. Avectas, a cell engineering technology business, is pleased to announce it has been accepted to become a resident at Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JLABS @ Toronto. JLABS @ Toronto is a 40,000 square-foot ...
Salzburg/Melide(CH) (ots) - Swiss Biotech EvoBiotiX SA today announced a multi-year collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim in the field of naturally derived EVs. A significant part of this program will fund research of the drug delivery potential of naturally derived EVs in the group of Prof. Meisner-Kober at the ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Merck out-licenses promising clinical-stage program to Novartis - Anti-ADAMTS5 Nanobody® programis Phase II-ready with novel MoA which could protect against cartilage damage and reduce joint pain - Merck receives upfront payment of EUR 50 million with the potential of ...
Lausanne (ots) - For its sixteenth edition, the JCA-Mauvernay Award was awarded to Doctor Hideaki Ogiwara and Doctor Keisuke Kataoka Debiopharm (www.debiopharm.com), a Swiss-based global, biopharmaceutical company, presented the JCA-Mauvernay Award on October 3rd to Dr. Hideaki Ogiwara from the Division of Cancer Therapeutics of the National Cancer Center Research ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - Debiopharm announces the presentation of the 3-year phase II follow-up data along with 2 posters for xevinapant (antagonist of IAP -Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins) and WEE1 inhibitor Debio 0123 Debiopharm, ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - · New analyses from Phase III JAVELIN Bladder 100 study of BAVENCIO®* assess efficacy across subgroups, patient-reported outcomes and exploratory biomarkers in advanced urothelial cancer · Overall efficacy data, and analyses of brain metastases and HRQoL for tepotinib? from ...
Lausanne (ots) - First patient dosed in the phase I small cell lung cancer (SCLC) trial with Debio 1124, a molecular-targeted radiotherapy Debiopharm (www.debiopharm.com), a Swiss-based, global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the first patient dosed in the multicenter, single-arm, open-label Phase 1 study ...
Rotterdam, Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - Viroclinics Biosciences B.V. ("Viroclinics") today announced the appointment of life sciences industry veteran Davide Molho, DVM as the company's new Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Molho succeeds Bob van Gemen, PhD who has served as the company's CEO since 2011. This transition is part of a planned succession strategy. Dr. ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots) - Versameb AG, a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative ribonucleic acid (RNA) therapeutics, announced today the closing of a CHF 6 million seed financing round. Versameb further strengthens its team by the appointment of Dr. Klaas P. Zuideveld as Chief Development Officer effective ...
Hattersheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - European Medicines Agency Approves 21-Day Dosing Intervals for Adult Haemophilia B Patients Global biotherapeutics leader CSL Behring announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the new Summary of Product Characteristics, which includes information about new, extended dosing options for IDELVION® ...
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Bern (ots) - Many scientists are currently undertaking work on the Sars-CoV-2 virus. But hundreds of projects supported by the SNSF are already contributing to finding answers to the current health crisis. In Switzerland and around the world, the novel coronavirus has become a priority for scientific research. Projects supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) are no exception. A special call and a ...
Visbek, Germany (ots) - IgNova announced today that it has filed a patent application covering the use of passive immunization to control SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans. IgNova, a biopharmaceutical R&D start up, researches technology based on specific egg immunoglobulins (IgY). The patented IgY binds the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, neutralizing the virus when it enters the mouth or nose and, therefore, inhibiting the ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - Takeda will pursue the development of a novel preclinical narrow spectrum microbiome remodeling program, to treat diseases related to dysbiosis of the human gut microbiome Debiopharm (www.debiopharm.com), a Swiss biopharmaceutical company, announced today an exclusive license agreement ...
Dublin (ots/PRNewswire) - Collaboration will advance Avectas' cell engineering technology leveraging UC Davis' world-class cell membrane characterisation expertise Avectas today announced that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with The Simon Laboratory at UC Davis, California, USA (UCD) to engage in the characterisation of cells engineered with Avectas' proprietary, non-viral SOLUPORE(TM) cell engineering ...
Rapperswil, Switzerland and Tel Aviv, Israel (ots/PRNewswire) - The epitope-based vaccine will target the most vulnerable part of the viral spike protein Ramot , Tel Aviv University's technology transfer company, and Neovii , a Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company and a member of Israel-based Neopharm Group, announced today that they have signed a research and license ...
Rapperswil, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Neovii, the Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company and a member of Israeli-based Neopharm Group, has signed a research and license agreement with Tel Aviv University's (TAU) RAMOT, its technology transfer company, to work in collaboration with a team led by Professor ...
Dublin (ots/PRNewswire) - Avectas announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued U.S. Patent No. 10,612,042, which is central to the company's cell engineering technology, Solupore® and expands Avectas' global Intellectual Property portfolio. This patent covers an approach for ...
Balerna, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - APR Applied Pharma Research s.a. ("APR"), the Swiss pharma company leveraging drug delivery technologies to develop innovative products for niche and rare diseases, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA") has granted Orphan Drug Designation for the Company's drug candidate APR-OD031 for the treatment ...
Lausanne, Switzerland, and Boston (ots/PRNewswire) - SOPHiA GENETICS, leader in Data-Driven Medicine, today announced that it is entering the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus by extending its partnership with Paragon Genomics, who developed a next-generation sequencing (NGS) assay and leveraging the SOPHiA Platform analytical capabilities, as well as delivering ...
Cambridge, England and Milpitas, California (ots/PRNewswire) - Abcam plc, a global innovator in life science reagents and tools, is today pleased to announce the asset purchase of the gene editing platform and oncology product portfolio of Applied StemCell, Inc. (ASC) for life science research and diagnostic ...
Cambridge, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - Includes leading protein conjugation technologies and industry brands Lightning-Link® and CaptSure(TM) - Opportunity to combine Expedeon and Abcam's technologies to create new products to support research and diagnostic development Abcam plc, a global innovator in life ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare grants orphan drug designation for diseases that affect fewer than 50,000 patients in Japan, and for which significant unmet medical need exists - MET exon 14 (METex14) skipping alterations and MET amplifications are present in ...
Not intended for distribution in the USA, Canada or the UK Key ESMO Abstracts # BAVENCIO® (avelumab): 1451; 3152; 4174; 4256; 4823; 5113, ERBITUX® (cetuximab): 1212, 2589, 4455, Tepotinib (MET kinase inhibitor): 3930; 5373; 5455, M6620 (ATR inhibitor): 1547, Combinations: 4062; 4934. - New subgroup analyses for ...
Lausanne, Switzerland, and Boston (ots/PRNewswire) - SOPHiA GENETICS, leader in Data-Driven Medicine, announced today that Gaëtan Fraikin and Sergei Yakneen have joined its executive team as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer, respectively. Mr. Fraikin and Mr. Yakneen bring decades of highly ...
- Investigational oral MET inhibitor has previously received SAKIGAKE 'fast-track' regulatory designation in Japan - MET exon 14 skipping alterations and MET amplifications are present in 3-5% of non-small cell lung cancer patients and correlate with poor prognosis - The designation is based on data from the ...