In a letter to new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Wellcome's chair wrote that leaving the E.U. without a deal would be a threat to the organization's research spending in the U.K. Johnson has said a no-deal Brexit could happen unless the bloc scraps the Irish border backstop.
Dutch biotech company, Mucosis, announced on Wednesday that it secured a $4 million fund awarded from the Wellcome Trust foundation. This will go toward clinical trials – a phase I dose-finding and safety study, followed by a novel phase II challenge study to assess the efficacy for its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) intranasal vaccine called SynGEM. […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Integrated Diagnostics has an interesting proposal for a blood test. Instead of telling doctors that lung cancer is present in a patient with lung nodules, it’s aiming to tell them when it’s not present. The Seattle-based company has just pulled in a $30 million Series B led by Baird Capital and joined by InterWest Partners […]
PTC Therapeutics has received a $5 million Seeding Drug Discovery award from UK charity Wellcome Trust to support the development of small-molecule drugs to battle life-threatening infections caused by multi-drug-resistant, Gram-negative bacteria. The South Plainfield, New Jersey-based drug development company’s anti-infective program is “currently in lead optimization and advancing toward identifying a development candidate,” according […]
The Wistar Institute will receive up to $4.7 million from the UK-based Wellcome Trust charity for the development of a new drug to fight cancers associated with the Epstein-Barr virus, according to an announcement from the biomedical research institute. The Seeding Drug Discovery Award of up to $4.7 million is to aid the translational research […]