Biotech startup RWDC closes $13M round

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Oct, 2018

Singapore headquartered biotech startup RWDC Industries Pte Ltd has successfully closed a $13 million Series A2 round co-led by venture capital firms Vickers Venture Partners and WI Harper ...Read more

Curetis, Beijing Clear Biotech expand strategic collaboration

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Oct, 2018

Curetis, a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, has announced that it has significantly expanded its strategic collaboration with Beijing Clear Biotech (BCB) for the excl...Read more

MEI Pharma, BeiGene to co-develop cancer drug

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Oct, 2018

MEI Pharma, a late-stage pharmaceutical company focused on advancing new therapies for cancer and BeiGene, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commer...Read more

OpenMTA to lead way for global biotech innovation

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Oct, 2018

A new easy-to-use legal tool, OpenMTA, has been launched recently that enables open exchange of biological materials. The OpenMTA is a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) designed to support ...Read more

YD Life Science signs tech transfer agreement with KRIBB

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Oct, 2018

YD Life Science has signed a technology transfer agreement with Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB) to gain the latter’s anti-cancer gene therapy using ...Read more

FDA lifts clinical hold on gene therapy for sickle cell disease

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Oct, 2018

CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted the clinical hold and accepted the Investigational New Drug applica...Read more

UniCAR teams up with Terumo BCT to improve CAR T-cell therapies

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Oct, 2018

Shanghai UniCAR-Therapy Bio-Medicine Technology Co. chose Terumo BCT and its cell expansion devices to automate its cell therapy manufacturing process for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-...Read more

Breathtec acquires Nash Pharmaceuticals

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Oct, 2018

Singapore - Breathtec Biomedical  is pleased to announce that further to its press release of August 2, 2018, it has signed a share exchange agreement dated October 5, 2018  among...Read more

AUM partners with NCCS to develop new cancer drugs

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Oct, 2018

Singapore – The National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and AUM Biosciences, a Singapore headquartered biotechnology company, will be collaborating on conducting joint research to dev...Read more

GenAhead Bio, ERS Genomics enter into CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Oct, 2018

GenAhead and ERS Genomics has announced a non-exclusive license agreement to provide GenAhead with access to ERS Genomic’s CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology patents. ERS Genomics ...Read more

Bionure appoints Dr. Laurent Nguyen as CEO

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Oct, 2018

Bionure Farma, a spin-off from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Spain) specialized in neuroprotection has announced the appointment of Dr. Laurent Nguyen as the new Chief Executive Officer...Read more

QBRI collaborates with Harvard Stem Cell Institute

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Oct, 2018

Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), a premier research institute under Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), has signed a collaborative research and training agreement with the Harva...Read more

UCL, Pall Biotech collaborate for biotech research and training

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Oct, 2018

Singapore - Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has progressed a strategic partnership with the University College London (UCL) Biochemic...Read more

Orgenesis announces license agreement with HekaBio in Japan

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Oct, 2018

Orgenesis, a manufacturer, service provider and developer of advanced cell therapies, has announced that it has entered into a License Agreement with HekaBio K.K., pursuant to the Joint Ven...Read more

Biotech firm Kadmastem procures $5.15 M

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Oct, 2018

Israeli biotechnology company Kadimastem, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing industrial regenerative therapies based on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) for the treatment of...Read more

Israeli biotech firm files for IPO

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2018

Israeli biotech drug developer Gamida Cell Ltd. has announced that it is going public to help fund clinical trials and build out a manufacturing plant. The Jerusalem-based company plans to...Read more

Bioconjugation expertise and increased productivity over next 5-years, forecasts a bioLive report

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2018

Ahead of the inaugural edition of bioLIVE, the bioprocessing and manufacturing event opening October (9-11) in Madrid, CPhI Worldwide announces the bio findings of its annual report, which ...Read more

Novartis collaborates with Cellular Biomedicine for CAR-T Therapy

BioTech |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Sep, 2018

Cellular Biomedicine Group Inc. (CBMG) has entered into a strategic licensing and collaboration agreement with Novartis to manufacture and supply the CAR-T cell therapy Kymriah (tisagenlecl...Read more