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iOnctura announces expansion of roginolisib clinical trial program to NSCLC

• Phase II study in non-small-cell-lung-cancer (NSCLC) to be run in collaboration with the ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation across sites in Europe • Study will investigate dostarlimab + roginolisib +/- docetaxel in patients with NSCLC resistant to first-line checkpoint inhibitor therapy Geneva, Switzerland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9 July 2024 – iOnctura, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical […]

Curve Therapeutics strengthens Leadership Team with appointment of experienced biotech executive Simon Jones

Accomplished CFO and COO with proven track record in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry Strengthens Curve’s Leadership Team following £40.5 million Series A financing Southampton, UK, 9 July 2024 – Curve Therapeutics (“Curve” or the “Company”), a private biotechnology company pioneering a revolutionary intracellular screening platform addressing complex and challenging disease targets, today announces the […]

Sector updates in June

Investment firms  Foresite Capital has raised $900 million fund to back innovative companies at the crossroads of biotechnology and technology  Brandon Capital has raised $180 million to support the growth of Australian and New Zealand as well as expand the firm’s presence across the globe, particularly in the UK, Europe and the US  Amplitude Ventures […]

Death cap poison: the latest weapon in the fight against cancer

The death cap mushroom is feared throughout much of the world because of the deadly toxin it contains, amanitin. But could the poison reputedly used by Agrippina to murder her husband, the Roman emperor Claudius, be used to destroy cancer, asks Richard Staines. Known to modern science as an inhibitor of RNA polymerase II, alpha-Amanitin […]

4SC AG: AGM highlights – Positive progress in 2023/2024 leaves company well positioned for resminostat commercialisation

Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, 20 June 2024 – 4SC AG (4SC, FSE Prime Standard: VSC), a biotech company improving the lives of patients suffering with advanced-stage cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), today publishes a summary of key highlights from its Annual General Meeting held earlier today in Martinsried, Germany. Read more…