Medical/Pharmaceuticals
Digital International Liver Congress: Alcohol cravings could be reduced by changing gut microbiota, new study reveals
GENEVA, Aug. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The importance of gut microbiota in reducing the burden of alcohol-related liver disease and liver cancer has been demonstrated in a novel pilot study presented at The Digital International Liver Congress™ 2020. The study examined whether the transfer of fec...
Sofwave Medical Announces Large Scale Push Into North American, APAC and EMEA Markets
Industry veterans with extensive experience leading global sales and marketing service organizations join Sofwave executive team YOKNEAM, Israel, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sofwave Medical Ltd., an emerging aesthetic company, announces it is developing new global sales and distribution channe...
How the Dutch resume elective surgery in melanoma after COVID delays
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SkylineDx signed a collaboration agreement with a multi-disciplinary clinical consortium inthe Netherlands that designed a trial to implement a diagnostic innovation to manage continuity of care delivery when resources are under ...
HKBN Launches UV-C Lighting Disinfection to Fight COVID-19
HONG KONG, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- HKBN Enterprise Solutions ("HKBNES") today announced the launch of innovative, one-stop disinfection solutions to help companies maintain business continuity amid the COVID-19 outbreak. As the first ICT service provider inHong Kong to collaborate with Sign...
CSPC Pharmaceutical Announces 2020 Interim Results
Profit Attributable To Shareholders Increased 23.2% to RMB2,314 Million Declared An Interim Dividend of HK6 Cents Per Share Proposed A Bonus Issue of 3 Bonus Shares For Every 5 Existing Shares Held HONG KONG, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Limited (HKEx: 01093) ("CSPC P...
Sunway University's Collaboration with Harvard Medical School Makes Advances in Potential Cancer Treatment using Gene Therapy
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunway University's ProfessorJeff Tan Kuan Onn of the Department of Biological Sciences and Professor Poh Chit Laa from the Centre for Virus and Vaccine Research, along with their research collaborators fromHarvard Medical School's Center for ...
DiscGenics Raises $50 Million in Series C Funding
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DiscGenics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing regenerative cell-based therapies that alleviate pain and restore function in patients with degenerative diseases of the spine, today announced it has raised$50 million in a Serie...
Duke-NUS to Join the TriNetX Network
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke-NUS, the only graduate-entry medical school inSingapore, has joined the TriNetX global research network to increase clinical trial adoption and to facilitate better collaboration with other global healthcare organizations (HCOs). This l...
First Rapid Corona Antigen Test Approved for Clinical Study in Germany
The health tech company Digital Diagnostics AG from Mainz, Germany, has received approval for clinical trials from a German ethics committee and the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM). This is a crucial regulatory step in the ongoing approval process for the Digid Cantisense™...
EpiVax Announces Licensing of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate to EpiVax Therapeutics
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- EpiVax, Inc. ("EpiVax"), a Rhode Island-based company and recognized leader in the field of computational vaccinology, today announced it has out-licensed its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, EPV-CoV-19, to EpiVax Therapeutics ("EVT"), aNew York-based co...
Large International Study Pinpoints Impact of TP53 Mutations on Blood Cancer Severity
Having two mutated copies of the TP53 gene - as opposed to a single mutated copy - is associated with worse outcomes in myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia. YARDVILLE, New Jersey, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The MDS Foundation announces that a large international study led by r...
AGC Biologics Completes PPQ Manufacturing Campaign with Provention Bio for Type 1 Diabetes Product Candidate, Teplizumab
SEATTLE, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AGC Biologics, a leading global Biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), achieved the on-schedule completion of a drug substance Process Performance Qualification (PPQ) campaign, focused on teplizumab (PRV-031) for partn...
FDA Accepts Filing of New Drug Application for Tepotinib for the Treatment of Patients with Metastatic NSCLC with METex14 Skipping Alterations
- Tepotinib granted Priority Review and is being evaluated under FDA Real-Time Oncology Review (RTOR) pilot program - Tepotinib is a highly targeted inhibitor of c-MET that is administered as a once-daily oral tablet - Data show robust, consistent and durable clinical response across different ...
Arçelik continues its drive to meet mechanical ventilator demand for countries in need
- The mechanical ventilators produced by Defy, Arçelik's subsidiary in South Africa, has received The President's Special Award for Pandemic Service presented by the Royal Academy of Engineering - The initiative extends the company's COVID-19 relief efforts and as of June, Arçelik has completed ...
First LIVE Coronavirus sample tested successfully with OTSAW UV-C LED disinfection robot
SINGAPORE, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OTSAW has built the world's first successfully laboratory tested human Coronavirus exterminating machine using OTSAW's patented UV-C LED, the O-RX. Its efficacy has been lab tested using high concentrations of live samples of human Coronavirus flown fromth...
Global Cord Blood Corporation Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2021
HONG KONG, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE: CO) ("GCBC" or the "Company"),China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage services, today announced its unaudited financial results for...
FDA's Convalescent Plasma EUA Requires All Donor Blood Units be Tested Only with Ortho's COVID-19 IgG Antibody Test
RARITAN, New Jersey, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In its August 23 Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 convalescent plasma for the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires all units of donor blood to be tested on Ortho Clin...
Connect Biopharma Completes $115 Million Series C Financing to Advance Ongoing Clinical Trials in Atopic Dermatitis and Ulcerative Colitis and Initiate Additional Clinical Programs
- In an oversubscribed round, top-tier investors provide significant financial resources to accelerate clinical development of potentially best-in-class therapies for inflammatory/autoimmune diseases - SAN DIEGO and TAICANG, SUZHOU, China, Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Connect Biopharma ("Connec...
Harbour BioMed Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Vir Biotechnology to Develop Novel Therapies for Immuno-Oncology and Infectious Diseases
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SUZHOU, China, Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbour BioMed (HBM), a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company today announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Vir Biotechnology (Nasdaq: VIR), a clinical-stage immunology...
PharmaSources.com to Help Propel the Chinese API Export Business with E-Trade Session CPhI China Top API Exporters & Products
SHANGHAI, Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmaSources.com, the vertical B2B portal for the pharmaceutical industry, announces the launch of the virtual session CPhI China Top API Exporters & Products on24-28 August 2020, as part of the CPhI & P-MEC China E-Trade Season (August toOctober 2020). ...
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