The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Hasan Jafri , Chief Medical Officer of Aridis Pharmaceuticals, will be a speaker on a panel entitled “Direct Antivirals and Other Agents Against SARS-CoV2 Virus.” ” Panel: Direct Antivirals and Other Agents Against SARS-CoV2 Virus Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Time: 10:30AM- 11:50AM ET.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 4, 2021

Gilead sues Russia over a compulsory license issued to a company making remdesivir ( STAT ). WHO is closely monitoring 10 Covid variants as virus mutates around the world ( CNBC ) . ENABLE: an engine for European antibacterial drug discovery and development ( Nature ).

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 22, 2021

iosBio , a UK-based biotechnology company, has announced an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with ImmunityBio , a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, for rights to use iosBio’s OraPro vaccine platform technology to test the oral administration of ImmunityBio’s vaccine candidate.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The research is part of an ongoing collaboration between Columbia University and Tonix that focuses on T cell and antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 (CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19. The research encompasses two projects. The study led by Dr. Ilya Trakht, Ph.D., About TNX-1800. 1 Noyce RS, et al. 2018) PLoS One. 13(1):e0188453.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

MP0420 is subject to an option and license agreement with Novartis AG to develop, manufacture and commercialize Molecular Partners’ anti-COVID-19 DARPin® program. The DARPin® platform is a fast and cost-effective drug discovery engine, producing drug candidates with optimized properties for development and very high production yields.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 23, 2025

Published July 23, 2025 Ben Fidler Senior Editor post share post print email license The executive leadership team of Dispatch Bio, as well as scientific cofounder Carl June and board chair Jeff Marrazzo. Treatments made from a patient’s own cells and engineered in a lab to attack cancer have come of age, too.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048 The Virus that Cures It’s been over 25 years since the science magazine Discover first ran an extraordinary article about how a long-forgotten medical treatment, used in the former Soviet country of Georgia, could save us from the growing threat of untreatable, drug-resistant infections.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 2, 2022

Boehringer Ingelheim and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) today announced a global licensing agreement under which Boehringer Ingelheim will obtain exclusive worldwide rights to research, develop and commercialize products based on a panel of innovative, tumor-specific antibodies from A*STAR. star.edu.sg.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 11, 2021

a San Diego-based biotechnology company with an array of technology platforms for antibody discovery and optimization, and novel NK and T cell engager generation, today announced licensing of a panel of its anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody clones to IGM Biosciences for COVID-19 therapy development.

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Codon

APRIL 2, 2023

This is Codon Digest, a weekly roundup of research papers, news articles, and industry highlights about engineered biology. Read Biological Engineering mScarlet3: a brilliant and fast-maturing red fluorescent protein. CRISPRi-mediated tunable control of gene expression level with engineered single-guide RNA in Escherichia coli.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 18, 2022

Novavax licensed and transferred its manufacturing technologies to enable Takeda to develop and manufacture the vaccine at its facility in Hikari. Additional therapeutics: The company has assessed existing Takeda products for activity against the COVID-19 virus and co-founded the COVID R&D Alliance.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Novartis has been granted an option to in-license global rights of MP0420 and MP0423 – multi-targeted direct-acting antiviral therapeutic candidates demonstrating potential efficacy against COVID-19. These building blocks are designed to target different sites on the virus for multiple concurrent effects.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 29, 2021

Takeda has granted a license to HilleVax for the exclusive development and commercialization rights to its norovirus vaccine candidate, HIL-214 (formerly TAK-214), worldwide outside of Japan, in exchange for upfront consideration, as well as future cash milestones and royalties on net sales. About HilleVax.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 20, 2020

BT-001 is a best-in-class oncolytic Vaccinia virus. platform and its patented large-capacity VV cop TK-RR- oncolytic virus, which has been engineered to encode both a Treg-depleting human recombinant anti-CTLA4 antibody generated by BioInvent’s proprietary n-CoDeR ® /F.I.R.S.T LUND, Sweden and STRASBOURG, France , Dec.

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Codon

MAY 2, 2023

To use it, mosquitoes are bred in exactly the same way that I’ve already described, but with one major difference: Instead of infecting females with a bacterium, they are genetically engineered to express the Cas9 protein (one part of the CRISPR system ), while male mosquitoes are engineered to express guide RNAs.

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Codon

MAY 2, 2023

To use it, mosquitoes are bred in exactly the same way that I’ve already described, but with one major difference: Instead of infecting females with a bacterium, they are genetically engineered to express the Cas9 protein (one part of the CRISPR system ), while male mosquitoes are engineered to express guide RNAs.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

But for a recent paper out of Nanjing, China, researchers engineered another enzyme and showed that, when mixed with FAST-PETase, the two worked together to break down plastic twice as fast as the Texas enzyme alone. Another paper recently reported an engineered Cas protein that is “up to 11.3-fold No longer.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

But for a recent paper out of Nanjing, China, researchers engineered another enzyme and showed that, when mixed with FAST-PETase, the two worked together to break down plastic twice as fast as the Texas enzyme alone. Another paper recently reported an engineered Cas protein that is “up to 11.3-fold No longer.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 16, 2021

Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, said: “The long-acting antibody combination has the potential to offer almost immediate protection to those who are not able to be vaccinated, to both prevent infection or treat the disease in patients already infected with the virus. Financial considerations. Source link:[link].

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Codon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

At best, the corporations with the best models released weak versions to the public under non-commercial licenses. On the surface, they hadn't deviated much from the early 2020s: a virus infected a cell and released the genetic therapy hidden within. The pessimism of just a few years before was replaced with exuberant optimism.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The award honors McHutchison’s work in developing life-changing and curative therapies for patients with the hepatitis C virus. Additionally, Sarah Haecker Meeks, joined the Company as vice president of Business Development and Steve Nardi joined as vice president of Manufacturing and Engineering Operations.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

TNX-1500 is a third generation anti-CD40-ligand mAb that has been designed by protein engineering to decrease Fc?RII Tonix is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, licensing, acquiring and developing small molecules and biologics to treat and prevent human disease and alleviate suffering.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 21, 2025

Published July 21, 2025 Ben Fidler Senior Editor Ned Pagliarulo Lead Editor post share post print email license Courtesy of Sarepta One month ago, a 51-year-old man treated in a clinical trial with an experimental gene therapy became dangerously sick.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

With the depth and breadth of our current portfolio, the tremendous potential of our pipeline and scientific engine, and the power of our culture of innovation, we are poised to continue delivering meaningful value to patients by addressing some of the world’s most difficult health challenges.”. BNT162 mRNA-based Vaccine Program.

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Agency IQ

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

None of the products discussed thus far should be confused with “synthetic biotics” “Synthetic biotics,” also referred to as engineered living therapeutics , are bacteria that have been genetically altered to perform a specific function for diagnostic or therapeutic benefit. Thus, they could also technically be considered synthetic biotics.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 19, 2023

Thanks to recent breakthroughs 3 in cell engineering and photosynthetic biomanufacturing, it is now possible to cost-effectively manufacture, at large scale, mucosally delivered biologics. Seven years ago, Lumen scientists discovered methods for genetic engineering of spirulina and production of exogenous proteins, such as vaccine antigens.

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PLOS: DNA Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Now, college tuition includes a fee to license an e-textbook for a limited time. A French major wanting to become an engineer would have to start over, taking very different courses. Tomes were split into shorter versions, like calving icebergs. The first E-books date from the 1990s. ” That definition covers all bases.

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JANUARY 24, 2021

Transgene and BioInvent received approval from France’s national regulatory agency to begin a Phase I/IIa trial of Vaccinia virus BT-001 in solid tumors. oncolytic virus (VVcopTK-RR-) and engineered to encode both a Treg-depleting human recombinant anti-CTLA4 antibody and the human GM-CSF cytokine.

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Codon

MAY 18, 2023

And the article doesn’t mention how Pairwise engineered the mustard to be “less pungent.” The company also has licensing deals with Tropic Biosciences to make bananas that don't brown as fast and coffee with naturally low caffeine & high solubility (for instant coffee). Maybe for real this time? in a series A.

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Codon

MAY 18, 2023

And the article doesn’t mention how Pairwise engineered the mustard to be “less pungent.” The company also has licensing deals with Tropic Biosciences to make bananas that don't brown as fast and coffee with naturally low caffeine & high solubility (for instant coffee). Maybe for real this time? in a series A.

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Codon

APRIL 16, 2023

Codon Digest is my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about engineered biology. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study.

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Codon

MAY 11, 2023

Scroll to the end for a beautiful chart about the Anthropocene & some details on insect engineering companies. It is used to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, which causes about 60,000 hospitalizations in this age group each year. There are many other up-and-coming insect engineering startups. Let’s dive in.

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Codon

MAY 11, 2023

Scroll to the end for a beautiful chart about the Anthropocene & some details on insect engineering companies. It is used to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, which causes about 60,000 hospitalizations in this age group each year. There are many other up-and-coming insect engineering startups. Let’s dive in.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 1, 2021

Kite, a Gilead Company (Nasdaq: GILD), today announced that it has submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the U.S. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation, in some cases resulting in fulminant hepatitis, hepatic failure, and death, can occur in patients treated with drugs directed against B cells.

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DrugBaron

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And yet, with interim data announced today showing a vaccine candidate from Pfizer and BioNTech to have at least 90% efficacy, it seems certain a vaccine to protect against a virus that was unknown to science a year ago will be approved in the US and Europe, before the end of 2020.

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MARCH 26, 2021

Data from the registrational COMET-ICE trial also will form the basis for a Biologics License Application (BLA) submission to the FDA. Importantly, VIR-7832 also has been engineered to potentially enhance virus-specific T cell function, which could help treat and/or prevent COVID-19 infection.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

is undergoing clinical trials for NVX-CoV2373, its vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. (Nasdaq:NVAX) is a late-stage biotechnology company that promotes improved health globally through the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases.

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