DEXSTR presents data management tool Inquiro at Pharmaceutical IT Congress 23 September 2015 | By Victoria White Inquiro gathers all unstructured data – from R&D to preclinical data – and allows researchers to organise and interconnect such data, facilitating large-scale collaborations among geographically distant research teams...
Genital herpes vaccine demonstrates prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy 23 September 2015 | By Victoria White NanoBio’s intranasal nanoemulsion adjuvanted genital herpes vaccine demonstrated efficacy in studies conducted in prophylactic and therapeutic models...
Zedira and Cardiff University to research transglutaminase 6 in ataxia 22 September 2015 | By Victoria White This work builds on previous successful collaborations between Zedira and Cardiff University in the arena of the autoantibody response in gluten-related disorders...
H3 and Selvita extend precision cancer drug collaboration 22 September 2015 | By Victoria White The companies are validating the druggability of two kinase targets in a specific genetic context and have generated multiple novel chemical series against these targets...
Boehringer Ingelheim and BioMed X team up for COPD project 22 September 2015 | By Victoria White The companies have applied a crowdsourcing approach to establish a research team who will endeavour to identify new approaches for the treatment of patients with COPD...
Inovio receives $24m grant to advance Ebola programme 21 September 2015 | By Victoria White DARPA is to provide the additional $24 million after Inovio successfully completed certain preclinical and clinical development milestones relating to the Ebola treatment programme...
BerGenBio presents positive preclinical data on BGB324 21 September 2015 | By Victoria White The data highlights that BGB324 used in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors in mouse carcinoma models showed enhanced tumour clearance compared with checkpoint inhibition alone...
Dr Jeanette Wood joins Nuevolution as Scientific Advisor 21 September 2015 | By Victoria White Dr Wood's expertise and experience to support Nuevolution in developing its pipeline in oncology, inflammation and immuno-oncology...
Selvita expands its operations into the US 21 September 2015 | By Victoria White Appreciating the importance of the US biotechnology and pharmaceutical market, Selvita decided to come closer to its partners and clients and open a fully-owned US subsidiary, Selvita Inc...
ERManI protein prevents HIV virus from replicating 17 September 2015 | By Vicky White By identifying ERManI as the target that slows the spread of HIV-1, researchers have revealed a target in which future therapies can be developed...
Researchers identify possible ovarian cancer biomarkers 17 September 2015 | By Victoria White The researchers also determined that the level of biomarkers associated with ovarian cancer does not simply increase or decrease over the course of the disease...
Scientists create immunity to E. histolytica by silencing genes 17 September 2015 | By Victoria White The new technique could be used to explore genetic mechanisms of resistance in the field of infectious disease and lead to new therapies...
Amgen and Xencor enter cancer immunotherapy and inflammation collaboration 17 September 2015 | By Victoria White The research collaboration brings together Amgen's capabilities in target discovery and protein therapeutics with Xencor's XmAb bispecific technology platform...
Piramal encourages pharma to embrace green chemistry 17 September 2015 | By Victoria White Piramal has launched a series of green chemistry initiatives and is asking all its partners to evaluate the greenness of the chemical pathways they are using...
CEVEC and Généthon to develop lentivirus packaging cell lines 17 September 2015 | By Victoria White CEVEC is to grant Généthon a license for the development of lentivirus packaging cell lines based on CEVEC’s CAP GT technology...