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PostEra Closes $24M in New Financing to Advance Drug Discovery

BOSTON, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for preclinical drug discovery, today announced $24M in equity financing to accelerate medicinal chemistry and bring new cures to patients. PostEra will use the proceeds to advance a series of partnered drug discovery programs, initiate its own internal drug...

Cambrex Celebrates its 40th Anniversary while Investing over $100 million in New Drug Substance Manufacturing Capacity

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambrex recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of its founding in 1981. Following forty years of growth and transformation into a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), Cambrex continues its commitment to leadership in pharmaceutical drug substance manufacturing with over $100 million of...

Gift of Life Donor Program Breaks National Records in Saving Lives 705 Organ Donors, Leading to 1,732 Life-Saving Transplants

New CEO Richard Hasz Salutes Region – the Most Generous in the Nation for 14 Consecutive Years – and Team of "Heroes" for Extraordinary Commitment PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gift of Life Donor Program once again leads the nation among all 57 U.S. organ procurement organizations (OPO) in saving lives. For the...

Clario and XingImaging expand partnership to deliver PET imaging clinical trials in China

BEIJING and PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clario, a technology company that delivers the leading endpoint technology solutions for clinical trials, and XingImaging, a radiopharmaceutical production and positron emission tomography (PET) acquisition company, have expanded their partnership to deliver PET imaging clinical trials for testing novel therapeutics in China. Clario, formerly...

SOPHiA GENETICS Reports Strong Traction in the Launch Phase of its DEEP-Lung-IV Multimodal Clinical Study

BOSTON and LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SOPHiA GENETICS SA (NASDAQ: SOPH), the creator of a global data pooling and knowledge sharing platform that advances data-driven medicine, announced today strong traction in the launch phase of their DEEP-Lung-IV clinical study (NCT04994795). Since officially launching last month, 12 sites across 5 countries have...

Qilian International Holding Group Limited Releases 2022 Chairman Letter

JIUQUAN, China, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qilian International Holding Group Limited (Nasdaq: QLI) (the "Company", "Qilian International", "we", "our" or "us"), a China-based pharmaceutical and chemical products manufacturer, today released a letter to shareholders from the Chairman of the Company's board of directors. Dear Shareholders, As a well-established manufacturer with a long history in the Chinese pharmaceuticals and...

China’s 2021 U.S. Patent Grants Surged, Even as Total Patent Awards Trended Downward, According to Analysis by IFI CLAIMS

2021 Rankings Shed Light on Corporate R&D Priorities: Telemedicine, Supply Chain Efficiencies, E-Cigs and Artificial Intelligence Among Hottest Areas of Activity NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enhancements in telemedicine, more hardy grains to feed the world in a time of climate change, and tools to improve the supply chain and better track goods from cargo port to...

Fosun Pharma and Insilico Medicine Announce a Strategic, AI-driven Drug Discovery and Development Collaboration to Jointly Advance Multiple Targets

SHANGHAI and NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd ("Fosun Pharma"; Stock Code: 600196.SH, 02196.HK), a leading innovation-driven international healthcare group in China and Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), an end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery and development company, entered into a collaboration agreement to advance the discovery and...

Latest Study Shows Encouraging Results of CanSinoBIO’s Inhaled COVID-19 Vaccine as Heterologous Booster

TIANJIN, China, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CanSino Biologics Inc. ("CanSinoBIO") (SSE: 688185, HKEX: 06185) today announced that Preprints with The Lancet, a collaboration between the research sharing platform SSRN and The Lancet, published a clinical study on the safety and immunogenicity of CanSinoBIO's Recombinant COVID-19 Vaccine(Adenovirus Type 5 Vector)for Inhalation Convidecia™as a heterologous booster1. The results of the...

SNIPR BIOME Announces FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for SNIPR001, a Novel CRISPR Therapy Targeting Life-Threatening E. coli Infections

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SNIPR BIOME ApS, a leading CRISPR and microbiome biotechnology company, is pleased to announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Investigational New Drug (IND) Application, for our first development candidate, enabling the company to initiate the first clinical trial in humans with SNIPR001. The trial, which is scheduled...