Biotechnology

The Jefferies Healthcare Temperature Check report is now in its third edition and published to coincide with the 11th annual Global Healthcare Conference which was held virtually. Over 500 responses from senior leaders in the sector responded for this year’s report, giving views on both the current state of the market and predictions for 2021. […]

Global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Sterling Pharma Solutions (Sterling), has announced a new strategic partnership with ADC Biotechnology (ADC Bio), a UK based biotechnology company specialising in antibody drug conjugates. The partnership will see Sterling make a significant investment in the business with a view to acquiring ADC Biotechnology in Q1 next year, […]

Oxeia Biopharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biotech company developing a drug treatment for concussion to address underlying neuro-metabolic dysfunction and axonal injury. It has announced the initiation of a Phase II clinical trial of OXE103 for treating concussion. The Phase II clinical study is being conducted by Dr. Michael Rippee, Assistant Professor of Neurology at […]

Since 2017 we have seen the slow and steady adoption of User Experience (UX) within the life sciences. User Experience is an evidence-based design process that centres on the behaviours and needs of users. The clear benefits of UX offered in the retail and consumer sectors have been slow to percolate to other more complex […]

STORM Therapeutics will use INDiGO, Evotec’s integrated, accelerated IND-enabling platform, to progress its STC-15 towards an IND application in 2021. STORM, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of small molecule therapies modulating RNA epigenetics, has selected STC-15 as a first-in-class development candidate. STORM discovered STC-15, an orally bioavailable, small molecule inhibitor of […]

Evotec is expanding its campus in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK, into a major, fully-integrated, co-located discovery and development centre to be named Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Campus. Adding a new building, which will house up to 100 biologists by the end of the year, will bring together all the key functions for  high-performance small molecule discovery up […]

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has quietly become one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease in the modern world. If this prevalence is allowed to continue the economic and clinical burden will reach a staggering level. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) consists of a complex combination of liver maladies, ranging from benign […]

APEIRON Biologics, a biotech company developing breakthrough therapies to treat cancer and respiratory conditions, has selected Domainex to provide integrated lead optimisation services in order to advance the development of inhibitors for the E3 ubiquitin ligase Cbl-b through small molecule drug discovery. Under the terms of the agreement, Domainex, an integrated drug discovery research service […]

Since 2017 we have seen the slow and steady adoption of User Experience (UX) within the life sciences. User Experience is an evidence-based design process that centres on the behaviours and needs of users. The clear benefits of UX offered in the retail and consumer sectors have been slow to percolate to other more complex […]