Pandion Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing bispecific antibody therapeutics to achieve localized immunomodulation, today announced the completion of a $58 million Series A financing. This funding will be used to advance its initial drug programs for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases toward the clinic, as well as to continue building the company’s technology platform and pipeline. Polaris Partners, the founding investor that provided the initial seed funding, co-led the Series A financing along with Versant Ventures and Roche Venture Fund. SR One and BioInnovation Capital also participated in the round.
Adlai Nortye Biopharma Co., Ltd. (NEEQ: 870946) ("Adlai Nortye" or "the Company"), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovery and commercialization of new and effective drugs, announced today that it had entered into a Global Licensing Agreement ("the Agreement") with Eisai Co., Ltd. ("Eisai"), a global pharmaceutical company with a focus on serving patients with unmet medical needs.
UAlberta researchers created a new synthetic virus that could lead to the development of a more effective vaccine against smallpox. The discovery demonstrates how techniques based on the use of synthetic DNA can be used to advance public health measures.
Findings In this population-based cohort study of more than 100, 000 predominantly postmenopausal women, risk reductions for ovarian cancer associated with increasing duration of oral contraceptive use were generally consistent across health behaviors. For endometrial cancer, the reductions were strongest among current smokers, obese women, and those who exercised rarely; lack of associations with breast and colorectal cancer were consistent across health behaviors.
When the FDA identifies that a product it regulates violates the law, it protects the public by working with the manufacturer and distributors to facilitate the product’s recall (i.e., removal from the marketplace or product correction). Among other actions, FDA assures that the public is warned when products present the most significant public hazards, including those recalls associated with an outbreak.
In 2014, research by the AARP estimated that 40 million Americans provide unpaid care to an adult. About 68 percent of family caregivers have no paid help and by 2020, 45 million family caregivers will care for 117 million people, according to a new report on caregivers that is part of AARP’s Project Catalyst.
Food allergy has been referred to as the second wave of the allergy epidemic, asthma being the first.
Aspyrian Therapeutics Inc. announces successful advances in RM-1929 clinical development in recurrent Head and Neck Cancer, including Fast Track designation granted by the FDA, initiation of clinical studies in Japan, and plans to start pivotal studies, which will incorporate the evaluation of anti-cancer immune responses, in early 2018.
The Government’s 2015 Cancer Strategy is failing to support blood cancer patients in the UK and care must improve, an MP inquiry has found.
Chinese bidders are circling a diabetes care business owned by the world's largest health-care company Johnson & Johnson in a deal that could fetch up to $4 billion, five people with direct knowledge told Reuters.
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