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Drug discovery’s latest top-level appointments

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Hall has been with the company for more than 16 years, including as Chief Commercial Officer, and was previously Head of Business Development in Europe for Cyprotex. Bironneau brings over two decades of commercial leadership experience, including as Vice President, Global Sales & Business Development at Axplora and Novasep.

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Bayer strengthens gene therapy portfolio with lipid nanoparticle technology from Acuitas Therapeutics

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Acuitas’ proprietary LNP technology is used in multiple vaccines and therapeutics in clinical development and was also used in some of the COVID-19 vaccines that were approved and administered to people in 180 countries. LNPs are spheric drug delivery bodies which can be equipped with therapeutic payloads for intracellular delivery.

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Reflecting on PEGS Europe 2023 

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Lightcast is developing a novel, programmable microfluidic platform that allows precise and highly flexible control of individual microdroplets using software-generated light patterns. This was followed by another presentation in the track, within the session on harnessing neutrophils using bispecifics.

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IWD: Spotlight on women in life sciences

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After a few years, I decided I wanted to move into the commercial side of the business, so I completed an MBA and went on to hold various positions in Corporate Business Development, Life Science and Healthcare. Avideh Nazeri is vice president clinical development, medical, and regulatory affairs, Novo Nordisk UK.

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Comment: LSX World Congress 2023 

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New approaches to partnering In this event in the Biotech track, Clive Cookson, Science Editor at the Financial Times, interviewed John McDonald, Corporate Vice President, Global R&D Business Development, Novo Nordisk. The discussion answered three main questions: What is the new direction for the company?

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Bayer acquires Noria and PSMA Therapeutics to expand portfolio in prostate cancer

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“Despite increased cancer survivorship overall, there continues to be significant unmet need in oncology,” said Marianne De Backer, MBA, PhD, Member of the Executive Committee of the Pharmaceuticals Division and Head Strategy and Business Development & Licensing at Bayer. “We

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Expert view: What’s next for cell and gene therapy?

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According to Foster, the industry needs to work together to address the problems from the earliest phases of pre-clinical development. Clinical endpoints are no longer the only things that matter. Allogeneic cell therapy is also starting to accelerate in early development programs. The solution?