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| By Kelley Gipson

White House wants to hear your supply-chain issues

BIO has been hearing from members experiencing issues accessing manufacturing components, ancillary materials, and raw materials, as well as with securing time for manufacturing runs...

| By Kelley Gipson

Qx gets ‘safe to proceed’ re COVID-19 trial

Qx Therapeutics reports that the FDA has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug application for investigating its lead investigational drug product, QXT-101, for a Phase 2...

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UConn advances re leukemia, Rett syndrome

UConn associate professor of pharmaceutics Xiuling Lu, and professor of chemistry Rajeswari M. Kasi were part of a team that recently found that a commonly-used drug may be...

| By Kelley Gipson

Bioasis advances in crossing blood-brain barrier

Bioasis Technologies has formed a research collaboration with Aposense Limited. Aposense is an Israeli bio-pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of novel drugs utilizing membrane electrical forces...

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Vanessa Biotech secures orphan drug designation

Vanessa Biotech has secured an orphan drug designation for Shylicine™, the only treatment of its kind developed for microvillus inclusion disorder, a rare and often lethal...

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Branford-based IsoPlexis sees rapid growth

Nine years ago, a half-dozen professors at Yale and other universities envisioned a life sciences system that would aid researchers and drugmakers in evaluating how...

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Boehringer Ingelheim steps up investment in R&D

Boehringer Ingelheim, the German pharma giant whose North American headquarters are in Ridgefield, reports that despite the pandemic, it maintained momentum in 2020. The company...

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IsoPlexis, Hyperfine make ‘top 15’ list

The trade publication Fierce MedTech has chosen both Branford-based Yale spinout IsoPlexis and Guilford-based portable MRI maker Hyperfine Research for its 2020 “Fierce 15.” “Each...

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CytoVeris extends partnership with Yale

CytoVeris reports the extension of its research partnership with Yale University. The collaboration continues to build and validate an AI-driven ‘smart’ algorithm which serves as the...

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Simcha receives funding re cancer therapy

Dr. Aaron Ring, an assistant professor of immunobiology at Yale, is piloting a new approach to targeting cancerous tumors that has not only drawn the eyes...