Introducing Fierce Biotech’s 2023 Fierce 15 – FOG and RayzeBio
It’s been a tough year for biotech, so how about a little good news? In between all the layoffs, restructurings and last-ditch strategic option hunting, we wanted to take a moment to shine a spotlight on 15 innovative and truly fierce biotechs. Everyone we talk to in the Fierce Biotech universe tells us that science […]
Artiva Biotherapeutics Announces FDA Clearance of IND for AlloNK® Cell Therapy Candidate in Combination with Rituximab in Lupus Nephritis
SAN DIEGO, August 16, 2023 — Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage company whose mission is to deliver highly effective, off-the-shelf, allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell-based therapies, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AlloNK® (also known as AB-101), in combination with rituximab […]
ImmPACT Bio Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application
Dual CD19 and CD20-targeting CAR T therapy offers broad immune targeting and potential to reset immune system No neurotoxicity and only Grade 1 cytokine release syndrome in ongoing UCLA investigator-led study in lymphoma West Hills, Calif., August 15, 2023 – ImmPACT Bio USA, Inc. (“ImmPACT Bio”), a clinical-stage company developing transformative logic-gate-based chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) […]
Attovia Therapeutics Launches with $60 Million Series A Financing to Unlock Potential of Novel Biparatopic Nanobody Platform
Company Formed by Alamar Biosciences and Frazier Life Sciences Attobody™ Platform Generates Small Format Binders for Hard-to-drug Targets FREMONT, Calif. and MENLO PARK, Calif., June 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alamar Biosciences, a company powering precision proteomics to enable the earliest detection of diseases, and Frazier Life Sciences, announced the launch of Attovia Therapeutics, a […]
Abdera Therapeutics Debuts With $142 Million in Financing to Engineer and Advance Best-in-Class Antibody-Based Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer
Proprietary ROVEr™ platform enables design of next-generation radiopharmaceuticals with tunable pharmacokinetic (PK) properties to maximize therapeutic effect and mitigate systemic toxicities Potential for alpha- or beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals, for clinically validated and novel cancer targets with a wide range of antigen expression Lead program targeting DLL3 for small cell lung cancer and other solid tumors advancing […]
Abdera skyrockets out of stealth with $142M as radiopharmaceutical ambitions take flight
The nature of Abdera Therapeutics’ platform has elevated expectations that Big Pharma will be queuing up to launch licensing opportunities. Lori Lyons-Williams has always been drawn to working in oncology. For the former Allergan leader and Neumora president, there are few opportunities more impactful than treating cancer—and tough-to-target solid tumors at that. So when given the […]
Entact Bio’s CEO is leading the company out of stealth and into a new age of protein enhancement
Welcome to First 90 Days, a series dedicated to examining how pharma executives are planning for success in their new roles. Today, we’re looking at Entact Bio’s CEO, Victoria Richon who stepped into the role to help the company, which launched in December, develop novel precision medications aimed at enhancing beneficial proteins to treat disease. […]
ALX Oncology Announces First Patient Dosed in ASPEN-07, a Phase 1 Study of Evorpacept for the Treatment of Patients with Urothelial Cancer
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ALX Oncology Holdings Inc., (“ALX Oncology”) (Nasdaq: ALXO), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing therapies that block the CD47 checkpoint pathway, today announced the first patient has been dosed in the ASPEN-07 study evaluating evorpacept, a next generation CD47 blocker, in combination with PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv), […]
Apellis Pharmaceuticals Announces Closing of Public Offering of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants and Full Exercise of Option to Purchase Additional Shares
WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: APLS), a global biopharmaceutical company and leader in complement, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of common stock and pre-funded warrants, including the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase an additional 833,333 shares. The […]
Pharvaris to Highlight Positive Phase 2 Data from RAPIDe-1 Study of PHVS416 for the On-Demand Treatment of HAE Attacks at AAAAI Annual Meeting
ZUG, Switzerland, Feb. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pharvaris (Nasdaq: PHVS), a clinical-stage company developing novel, oral bradykinin-B2-receptor antagonists to treat and prevent hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks, today announced a poster detailing positive data from its Phase 2 RAPIDe-1 study of PHVS416 for the on-demand treatment of attacks will be presented at the American Academy […]
