Medical/Pharmaceuticals
Sciwind Biosciences Reports Positive Interim Results from Phase 1c/2a Clinical Trial of XW003 (Ecnoglutide) in Overweight and Obese Adult Volunteers in China
* Mean body weight loss of 9.6% and 9.0% in participants receiving 1.8 mg and 2.4 mg XW003 for 14 weeks, respectively * Up to 72.4% of participants achieved weight loss of at least 5% at week 14 * XW003 was safe and well tolerated with gastrointestinal side effects as the most commonly repor...
FRONTIER BIOTECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES POSITIVE PHASE 1 RESULTS OF ITS FIRST CORONAVIRUS MAIN PROTEASE (MPRO) SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITOR, LAYING FOUNDATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE AND LONG COVID
* FB2001 (Bofutrelvir) is a Coronavirus Mpro inhibitor, which exhibited potent anti-SARS-CoV-2 activityin vitro and in vivo * Phase 1 results show FB2001 to be generally safe and well tolerated. No significant difference was observed between Chinese and American populations. Single-agent anti...
Prominent Stanford University scientist and cellular reprogramming innovator will oversee all research for Turn Bio
Vittorio Sebastiano, globally recognized for pioneering science, expands his role at company he co-founded as it moves closer to clinical research MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Turn Biotechnologies, a cell rejuvenation company developing novel mRNA medicines to cure untreata...
Prenetics Launches Circle Snapshot, Simple At-home Blood Tests Using the World's First Push-Button and Painless Blood Collection Device
- Circle Snapshot, a patented, painless, at-home blood test with laboratory results delivered digitally. - The test utilises a CE-certified blood collection device, which is a proprietary micro-needle technology that draws capillary blood painlessly using a novel microfluidic extraction process....
Xinhua Silk Road: E. China's Wuxi city steps up biomedical industry development
BEIJING, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Taihu Bay Future Healthcare Conference held Thursday in Wuxi City in eastChina's Jiangsu Province witnessed the launch of Wuxi Intellectual Property Protection Center with 52 biomedical projects contracted, involving a total of more than30 billion yu...
Qmed Asia launches Qmed GO "Mini Clinics" to Solve Rising Employee Healthcare Costs
Disrupting the medical landscape through an innovative internet-enabled
clinical kiosk.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qmed Asia
BIO Asia-Taiwan 2022 concludes, marking another successful edition of the region's biggest bioindustry-focused conference and exhibition
Exhibition visitors surpass 100,000 people over 4 days BIO Asia–Taiwan success a testament to Taiwan's booming biotechnology industry TAIPEI, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIO Asia–Taiwan 2022, held at the TaiNEX 2 Exhibition Center, Nangang,Taipei, from 27-31 July, came to a successful conclusio...
BioDuro-Sundia and X-Chem enter partnership to launch DEL services in China for the discovery of new small molecule drugs
SHANGHAI, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioDuro-Sundia, an industry-leading drug discovery, development and commercial service CRDMO backed by Advent International, and X-Chem, a DEL technology pioneer in small molecule drug discovery, jointly announced the launch of DNA Encoded Compound Library (...
Ascletis Announces First Patient Dosed in the U.S. Phase I Clinical Trial of Oral PD-L1 Small Molecule Inhibitor Prodrug ASC61 for Treatment of Advanced Solid Tumors
--ASC61 is an in-house developed oral PD-L1 small molecule inhibitor prodrug that showed significant antitumor efficacy in preclinical studies as a single agent in multiple animal models --ASC61-A treatment induced secretion of IFNγ in a concentration dependent manner with an EC50 of 2.86 nM. Ma...
CStone presents updated results of a registrational study of sugemalimab in patients with stage III NSCLC via oral presentation at WCLC 2022
* GEMSTONE-301 study result was presented at IASLC 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer. In addition, the leading Principal Investigator ProfessorYi-Long Wu was invited to highlight key data in a press conference * In the final progression-free survival analysis, sugemalimab showed sustained ...
Transcenta Announces the Appointment of Dr. Caroline Germa as Executive Vice President, Global Medicine Development and Chief Medical Officer
SUZHOU, China, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Transcenta Holding Limited ("Transcenta") (HKEX: 06628), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with fully-integrated capabilities in discovery, research, development and manufacturing of antibody-based therapeutics,announces the appointment of Dr. ...
Innovent Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 1 Study of IBI324 (VEGF-A/Ang-2 Bispecific Antibody) in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema
SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent") (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, metabolic, autoimmune, ophthalmology and ...
Telix and University of Queensland-led Consortium Awarded $5M Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces that it has been jointly awarded a$4.8 million Australian Research Council (ARC) grant to establish a new Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP) Hub as part o...
BGI's Global Life Science Research Leadership Recognized in 2022 Nature Index
SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BGI's leading global position in life science research has been recognized in the 2022 Nature Index. BGI rose two places to 8th in the world among corporate institutions for its contribution to life science research and was the only Chinese corporate ...
Innovent Biologics and Sanofi Enter Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Development of Oncology Medicines and Expand Presence in China
* Collaboration to accelerate the development and access of oncology medicines for cancer patients inChina * Clinical trial programs combining two of Sanofi's prioritized oncology assets with sintilimab, the leading checkpoint inhibitor inChina, to address some of the most prevalent solid tum...
MGI Announces Commercial Availability of HotMPS Sequencing Chemistry*and Instrument**in the United Kingdom
SHENZHEN, China, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGI Tech (MGI) announced that its innovative HotMPS sequencing chemistry* and instrument** are commercially available in theUnited Kingdom, from 23rd June 2022. Further details will be communicated during the 17th Annual Meeting of the International ...
Genesis Capital invests in Crux Biolabs, a leading bioanalytical laboratory to the clinical trials sector
* Crux Biolabs is a decade-old Australian leader in bioanalytics, customised biomarker detection, cell assay development, clinical and pre-clinical testing with particular strength in the immuno-oncology clinical trials market * Genesis Capital is partnering with existing management to expand ...
Ascletis Announces IND Filing of Oral RdRp Inhibitor ASC10 for COVID-19 Accepted by China NMPA
HANGZHOU, China and SHAOXING, China, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672, "Ascletis") today announces that the Investigational New Drug (IND) application of ASC10, an oral inhibitor drug candidate targeting RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) for COVID-19, has been accep...
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New research reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® (AAIC®) 2022 covered the breadth of Alzheimer's and dementia research, including the basic biology of aging and the brain, risk factors and prevention strategies, and caregiving ...
HISTORY OF HYPERTENSIVE DISORDERS DURING PREGNANCY LINKED TO INCREASED RISK OF DEMENTIA
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Experiences of high blood pressure disorders during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of vascular dementia and accelerated brain aging, according to studies reported today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference®(AAIC®) 2022 in S...
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