Drug Discovery & Development

News on drug screening, clinical trials, companion diagnostics, immunotherapy, & personalized therapies in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.

Interpace Diagnostics, Genecast Biotechnology Ink Worldwide Research Services Agreement

Interpace Diagnostics subsidiary Interpace BioPharma will perform services worldwide, while Genecast will offer the services in China.

Personalis to Profile CLL Patients in Invectys Phase II Drug Trial

Personalis will analyze samples from the study, evaluating the pharma company's novel therapy INVAC-1 either as a monotherapy or in combination with the TKI ibrutinib.

GeneCentric Therapeutics to Launch Phase II Validation Study for Head and Neck Cancer Subtyper

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The firm is developing a biomarker panel to detect mutations in mesenchymal cells, with the goal of guiding drug treatment and improving earlier patient intervention.

GeneCentric Therapeutics Acquires Select ImmunoGenomics

The combined company will use RNA-based tools to enhance drug development by identifying the right patients for oncology drugs and potentially improving drug response rates.

HiFiBio Bets on Single-Cell Methods to Boost Drug Discovery

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The international firm is one of several pharmaceutical companies emphasizing new single-cell technologies to improve existing drugs and find new ones.

Aug 13, 2019

Adaptive Biotechnologies Q2 Revenues Rise 91 Percent

Aug 06, 2019

Sophia Genetics Teams With ADC Therapeutics on Biomarker Discovery for Lymphoma Treatment

Jul 30, 2019

Swiss Startup QGel Commercializing 3D Organoids for Cancer Drug Response Research

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Jul 29, 2019

NEC Acquires Bioinformatics Firm OncoImmunity

Jul 24, 2019

Gray Foundation Awards $25M in Cancer Research Grants

Jul 17, 2019

Cancer Drug Discovery Firm Notable Nabs $40M in Series B Funding Round

Jul 15, 2019

Evotec Acquires iPSC Drug-Discovery Assets From Ncardia

Jul 11, 2019

Fujifilm, Axcelead Form Drug Discovery Services Alliance

Jul 03, 2019

Japan, China Launch Basket, Umbrella Trials to Expand Precision Oncology Treatment Access

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Jun 24, 2019

SpeeDx, GSK Sign Test Supply, Development Deal

Jun 17, 2019

Q BioMed Using MicroRNA Biomarkers to Guide Therapy Development in Subset of Autism Patients

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Jun 14, 2019

Regeneron, Mayo Ink Pact to Sequence, Genotype 100K Patient Samples

Jun 13, 2019

GlaxoSmithKline, UC's Doudna Establish $67M Genomics, CRISPR Research Lab

Jun 12, 2019

Intermountain Increases Investment in Precision Health Through Decode Genetics Sequencing Study

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Jun 10, 2019

Sphere Fluidics Closes $4.8M Financing Round

May 31, 2019

Taiwan's Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Joins Japanese Cancer Genomic Screening Project

May 29, 2019

Industry Interest in Pan-Cancer Indications Growing With FDA Support Despite Challenges

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May 28, 2019

Silence Therapeutics Inks Deal to Access Genomics England Database

May 07, 2019

Adial Pharmaceuticals, Eurofins Scientific Partner on CDx for Alcohol Use Disorder Drug

May 07, 2019

Kiyatec Targeting Clinical Oncology Space With 3D Cell Culture Technology

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The Scan

Gene Not Present

Retraction Watch reports that a paper was pulled because it refers to a gene that doesn't exist in mice.

From the Brink?

Researchers were able to generate fertilized northern white rhinoceros eggs, according to Mashable.

Former Employees Raise Testing Issues

Former Orig3n employees raise concerns about its testing at Bloomberg Businessweek.

PLOS Papers Explore HCC MicroRNAs, PCR-Based Schistosomiasis Diagnostics, More

In PLOS this week: microRNA expression changes in hepatocellular carcinoma, real-time PCR-based approach for diagnosing schistosomiasis, and more.

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Cell-Based Therapies – Be on the Safe Side

Poster: Next Generation Cellular Therapeutic Technologies — Rapid Detection of Bacterial Contamination

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Featured Webinar

Highly Sensitive Structural Variant Detection for Medical Genetics: A Comparison to the Standard of Care

This webinar will outline how a team at Radboud University Medical Center is assessing ultra-long read optical mapping on the Bionano Saphyr system to replace classical cytogenetics approaches in routine testing and for the discovery of novel structural variants with potential scientific, prognostic, or therapeutic value that are missed by standard approaches.

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Single-Cell Methylation Profiling of Pediatric Tumors via a Unique NGS-based Approach

This webinar will illustrate how single-cell methylation sequencing can be applied to gain significant insight into epigenetic heterogeneity in disease states, advancing cancer research discoveries.

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