News for January 2021

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BC Platforms, RIKEN and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) collaborate on artificial intelligence approach to identify people most at risk of from COVID-19 BC Platforms, RIKEN and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) collaborate on artificial intelligence approach to identify people most at risk of from COVID-19

RIKEN’s precision model algorithms designed to predict COVID-19 outcomes using THL’s patient data and BCP’s BC|INSIGHT. RIKEN is Japan’s largest comprehensive research institution encompassing a network of world class research centres and institutes across Japan

Lytix Biopharma announces FDA clearance of IND for starting a Phase II study in the US Lytix Biopharma announces FDA clearance of IND for starting a Phase II study in the US

Lytix Biopharma AS has received FDA clearance to initiate a Phase II clinical trial in the US designed to assess the efficacy of its lead candidate LTX-315, a first-in-class oncolytic peptide, in several solid tumor types.

Exact Therapeutics Announces Innovative Probe Development Collaboration With GE Healthcare Exact Therapeutics Announces Innovative Probe Development Collaboration With GE Healthcare

OSLO/LONDON, JANUARY 20 2021: EXACT THERAPEUTICS AS (“EXACT-Tx” or the “Company”), a clinical stage precision medicine company today announced a collaboration with GE Healthcare to develop an innovative ultrasound probe to be used in forthcoming studies using Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT®) across multiple disease conditions.

CPhI & P-MEC China gives a glimpse of the success returning pharma events will deliver in 2021 CPhI & P-MEC China gives a glimpse of the success returning pharma events will deliver in 2021

The fully launched MAH and priority review pathways from the NMPA (National Medical Products Administration) is stimulating new demand in China for 2021

Investigating new treatment for schizophrenia as first Psychiatry Consortium funded project announced Investigating new treatment for schizophrenia as first Psychiatry Consortium funded project announced

A partnership between University of Oxford, the Earlham Institute, and the global pharmaceutical companies Biogen Inc and Boehringer Ingelheim is announced today to investigate a new drug target for the treatment of schizophrenia.

The Current issue of “The view from here” is concerned with Structural Biology The Current issue of “The view from here” is concerned with Structural Biology

The topic of this month’s newsletter from Drug Discovery Today is “Structural Biology”.

Healx teams up with Mission: Cure to discover and advance the world’s first treatments for chronic pancreatitis Healx teams up with Mission: Cure to discover and advance the world’s first treatments for chronic pancreatitis

Mission: Cure is a coalition of patients, doctors, researchers and entrepreneurs who are committed to advancing new therapies and cures for currently untreatable diseases. Their primary disease focus is on chronic pancreatitis, a rare inflammatory condition that affects over a million people across the globe. This partnership will combine Healx’s AI and drug discovery expertise with Mission: Cure’s disease knowledge and preclinical, clinical and patient networks to identify and advance the world’s first effective treatment for chronic pancreatitis.

Mogrify enters research collaboration with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Mogrify enters research collaboration with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Exploratory research project aims to develop novel protein expression systems via cell reprogramming

Ilya Pharma announces positive results from Phase I trial of lead candidate ILP100 and rapid move to Phase II

Success also de-risks the use of ILP-drug candidates in other medical indications, including the company’s inflammatory bowel disease program.