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Astellas teams up with UK biotech Mogrify on hearing loss project

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The new partnership will apply Mogrify’s cellular reprogramming and bioinformatics expertise to try to identify transcription factors – proteins which can turn specific genes on or off – that can be used to generate new cochlear hair cells. An estimated 1.57

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Drug discovery’s latest top-level appointments

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Jean-Baptiste Agnus, Chief Business Officer, and Peter Carbone, Chief Quality Officer, KBI Biopharma: Agnus brings more than two decades of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry with expertise in biologics, small molecule APIs, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), and cell and gene therapies.

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Insilico Medicine gets $255 million to boost AI-powered R&D, announces a collaboration

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Credit: Insilco June 22, 2021, New York / Hong Kong — Insilico Medicine, a global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target discovery, small molecule chemistry, and clinical development, announced that it has closed a $255 million from biotechnology experts to progress Insilico Medicine’s current therapeutic programs into (..)

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Reflecting on PEGS Europe 2023 

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Field also covered the capabilities and strategies that enable acceleration of Fc-fusion, Fab fragment and bispecific antibodies through pre-clinical development. To demonstrate the utility of the company’s SYNTAX system in gene assembly, the 1.7 kb Influenza A hemagglutinin gene was used as a model system.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

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Novel/alternative ML-enabled screening technologies for higher POS Following chairperson’s remarks from M Frank Erasmus, PhD, Head, Bioinformatics, Specifica, there will be four presentations and a panel discussion.

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Global impact: How regulatory affairs is shaping development of cutting-edge pharma innovation

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We have a pipeline of novel therapeutics and technological approaches, advancing a diverse array of candidates, including small molecules, biologics and cell and gene therapies, so a lot of the time we are working where there’s little, or no precedent.”. In principle, this goes beyond medicines.