March 11, 2025 -- Medera Inc. (“Medera”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeting difficult-to-treat and currently incurable diseases by developing a range of next-generation therapeutics, today announced that patient dosing has been completed in its MUSIC-HFrEF Phase 1/2a clinical trial of the gene therapy candidate SRD-001 in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HErEF). HErEF is a prevalent form of heart disease that accounts for half of an esti

March 13, 2025 -- Salipro Biotech AB, a Swedish biotech company specialising in the stabilisation of challenging drug targets, today announced a research and license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim to accelerate the development of multiple drug targets. This collaboration aims to advance the discovery and development of new therapeutic solutions targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), ion channels, transporters and other integral membrane proteins in therapeutic areas such as mental

Trial for this rare genetic disease to be conducted by NIH/NIAID in partnership with Corvus ITK inhibition intended to address dysregulation of T cells that causes ALPS and has been shown to be effective at treating the disease in preclinical models March 12, 2025 -- Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRVS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has i

March 12, 2025 -- Portage Biotech Inc. (“Portage” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PRTG), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company with a portfolio of innovative therapeutics, today announced the resumption of patient enrollment in the fourth and final cohort of the dose escalation stage for PORT-6, a highly selective A2A antagonist, within its ADPORT-601 Phase 1b clinical trial. Portage had previously paused this trial due to funding concerns; this resumption of the trial underscores the encouraging

March 12, 2025 -- Atsena Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on using the life-changing power of genetic medicine to reverse or prevent blindness, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for ATSN-201 for the treatment of X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS). ATSN-201, a best-in-class gene therapy product candidate, leverages AAV.SPR, the company’s novel spreading capsid, to achieve therapeutic levels of gene expression

Medigene AG , an oncology platform company focused on the research and development of T cell receptor (TCR)-guided therapies for the treatment of cancer, today announced the submission of a patent for a novel natural killer (NK) cell-specific TCR construct to the European Patent Office. With that, Medigene is advancing its TCR-guided strategy by expanding the application of its proprietary 3S (sensitive, specific, and safe) TCRs into NK cells. This patent application marks a major expansion of M

Kaerus Bioscience , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company created by Medicxi for the development of therapeutics for rare genetic syndromes of neurodevelopment, today announces the successful completion of its Phase 1 clinical trial of KER-0193, a novel BK channel modulator the company is developing for Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and other neurodevelopmental conditions. In the trial, KER-0193 was found to be safe and well-tolerated in both single ascending dose and multiple ascending dose co

A landmark FDA approval last week in breast cancer defined a new cancer target, expanding the number of patients that can be treated. Mersana Therapeutics is going after that same new target with a drug from the same class of therapies and the biotech is readying for a clinical trial that could show whether its twist on the approach works in other cancers. GSK wants a piece of that potential and it is paying the biotech $100 million to begin a partnership. The sum announced after the market clo

GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) and Aiolos Bio, Inc. (Aiolos) today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which GSK will acquire Aiolos, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on addressing the unmet treatment needs of patients with certain respiratory and inflammatory conditions, for a $1 billion upfront payment and up to $400 million in certain success-based regulatory milestone payments. The acquisition provides GSK with access to Aiolos’ AIO-001, a potentially best-in-

Specialist fund SCI Ventures, backed by major spinal cord injury foundations, together with existing investors, also participated in this round Proceeds will finance phase 1b/2a study of EG110A through safety and early efficacy results Opens way for clinical development across multiple medically important neuro-urology pathologies Funding will also support the company’s early-stage pipeline based on its proprietary HERMES vector technology platform. February 20, 2025 – EG 427, a biotechnology co