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Aptose Biosciences Enters $25M Common Shares Purchase Agreement
The firm will offer up to 12,030,218 common shares for Keystone Capital Partners to sell and is expecting to net around $2.1 million in gross proceeds.
BC Cancer Foundation Launches C$6.8M Campaign to Advance CAR T-Cell Therapies
The foundation hopes to put the funds toward two clinical programs in blood cancers and one preclinical project in solid tumors.
Restore Vision Doses First Retinitis Pigmentosa Patient in Phase I/II Gene Therapy Trial
The Tokyo-based biotech firm expects RV-001 to be able to alter light sensitivity for patients with limited or no vision regardless of genotype.
In Brief This Week: AstraZeneca, Arrowhead, Immix, Ensoma, Elixirgen, Ideaya Biosciences
News items for the week of Feb. 10, 2025.
Tempus, IFLI Partner to Accelerate Development of Follicular Lymphoma Therapies
The collaboration will involve making a real-world multimodal dataset available in Tempus' Lens platform that researchers can use to accelerate treatment development.
GenomOncology, Pillar Biosciences Partner to Develop NGS-Driven Clinical Decision Support Solution
In the deal, GenomOncology will integrate Pillar's RUO NGS panels into its clinical decision support platform to enable personalized cancer treatment insights.
Encoded Therapeutics Lays off 29 Percent of Workforce
The move will provide funds to advance ETX101, a gene therapy the company is developing for SCN1A-positive Dravet syndrome, among other programs.
FDA Clears Lion TCR to Begin Phase II Trial of TCR T-Cell Therapy in HBV-Related Liver Cancer
The firm will study its autologous cell therapy alone and in combination with Eisai's Lenvima in patients with hepatitis B-driven hepatocellular carcinoma.
Bicara Therapeutics Begins Trial of Ficerafusp Alfa, Keytruda in First-Line Head and Neck Cancer
The Phase II/III trial will include patients with PD-L1-positive tumors and who are HPV-negative.
Boehringer Ingelheim Strikes Deal to Use ExpressionEdits Tech in Two Gene Therapy Programs
ExpressionEdits' Genetic Syntax Engine platform is designed to enhance gene expression within gene therapies by restoring introns.