News for January 2022

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Queen’s University Belfast enters collaboration and licensing agreement with Ipsen to progress FLIP inhibitor project which has been supported by Domainex Queen’s University Belfast enters collaboration and licensing agreement with Ipsen to progress FLIP inhibitor project which has been supported by Domainex

Saffron Walden, 26th January 2022 / Domainex Ltd., a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to life science organisations globally, is delighted that Professors Daniel Longley, Tim Harrison and colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast have entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement with Ipsen. The agreement provides an exclusive licence to research, develop, manufacture and commercialise FLIP inhibitors. Domainex has supported the FLIP inhibitor programme from its inception.

Avacta Selects Second pre|CISION™ Pro-drug Candidate for Development Avacta Selects Second pre|CISION™ Pro-drug Candidate for Development

Cambridge and Wetherby, UK, 18 January 2022: Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer therapies and powerful diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms announces that the next pre|CISION™ drug candidate, AVA3996, has been selected for pre-clinical development with a view to a first-in-human Phase I clinical trial beginning in the second half of 2023.

Iceni Glycoscience to spearhead ‘glycorevolution’ as it broadens scope of operations within the field of glycoscience Iceni Glycoscience to spearhead ‘glycorevolution’ as it broadens scope of operations within the field of glycoscience

Award-winning platform company, Iceni Glycoscience (formerly Iceni Diagnostics) is to broaden the scope of its operations within the field of glycoscience (carbohydrate chemistry and biology) as the role of carbohydrates in human disease becomes increasingly apparent.

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

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