Financing led by Zimmer Biomet with participation from existing investors Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc., Gideon Strategic Partners, and HM Capital. Proceeds will support NDA submission and commercial launch of lead candidate, VT-X7, a 7-day treatment for periprosthetic joint infection. June 05, 2024 -- Osteal Therapeutics, Inc. (“Osteal”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new category of combination drug/device therapies for orthopedic infections, announced to

Founder and lead investor ARCH Venture Partners is joined by NVIDIA’s NVentures, Menlo Ventures, and Madrona Funding accelerates advancement of Vilya's proprietary computational drug design and development platform and its pipeline of novel macrocycles that precisely target disease biology Vilya's foundational technology leverages advanced computational approaches to design novel macrocycles with atomic-level accuracy and enhanced drug-like properties June 04, 2024 -- VILYA, Inc. (Vilya), a bio

Positions company to further leverage strength of platform and advance programs through multiple data readouts and clinical value inflection points Strengthens balance sheet with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $310 million and extends cash runway into 2027 May 22, 2024 -- Foghorn® Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: FHTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering a new class of medicines that treat serious diseases by correcting abnormal gene expression, today announced th

LIfT BioSciences Awarded Innovate UK Grant to Accelerate Product Development of New IMAN Cell Therapy Variants Groundbreaking in vivo studies will be progressed to explore the impact of IMAN cell therapies in solid tumour and immunology models uniquely available at the Saeb-Parsy Lab at the University of Cambridge 16 May 2024 – LIfT BioSciences, (‘LIfT’ or ‘the Company’), a rapidly emerging biotech company about to start clinical trials for its first-in-class allogeneic innate cell therapy, toda

May 14, 2024 -- Tavros Therapeutics, Inc., a precision oncology platform company, today announced that the Company has achieved two milestone payments in its collaboration with Vividion Therapeutics, Inc., a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG. The payments were triggered by the successful achievement of predefined milestones, underscoring the progress of their strategic collaboration to discover and develop targeted oncology therapies. Eoin McDonnell, Ph.D., CEO and

May 13, 2024 -- Walden Biosciences, Inc. (Walden), a private, venture-backed biotechnology company advancing disease-modifying therapies to transform the treatment of kidney disease, today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Primula Group to lever a large body of genetic data on patients living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), including insights from close to 500,000 individuals in the UK Biobank. The study will be led by Dipender Gill, M.D. Ph.D., who is based at

May 08, 2024 -- Derm-Biome Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a Vancouver based biopharmaceutical company focused on skin health and healthy aging, is pleased to announce that, in partnership with TransBIOtech (Quebec), is being awarded an Applied Research and Development (ARD) grant via the College and Community Innovation (CCI) program administered through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Insti

Strategic collaboration with GSK expanded to accelerate clinical development of alpibectir for the treatment of tuberculosis GSK to participate in Series C Extension with equity investment Series C financing round extended overall by CHF 12.3 million to CHF 44.9 million May 07, 2024 -- BioVersys AG, a multi-asset, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on research and development of novel antibacterial products for serious life-threatening infections caused by multi-drug resistant ("

May 06, 2024 -- Cellectis (Euronext Growth: ALCLS – NASDAQ: CLLS) a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies, today announced that, following clearance from the French Ministry of Economy and satisfaction of all other closing conditions, AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) completed the additional equity investment of $140M in Cellectis, as previously announced by Cellectis on November 1 and 15, 2023 (the “Addit

Not for distribution to United States news wire services or for dissemination in the United States April 30, 2024 -- Medicenna Therapeutics Corp. (“Medicenna” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDNA) (MDNAF: OTCQB), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on the development of engineered cytokines, announced today the closing of its previously announced CA$20 million investment by RA Capital Management, a multi-stage investment manager based in Boston, MA, by way of a non-brokered private placement