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ERS Genomics Expands Team With Appointment of Jon Kratochvil as VP Business Development

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ERS Genomics Expands Team With Appointment of Jon Kratochvil as VP Business Development ERS Genomics Expands Team With Appointment of Jon Kratochvil as VP Business Development Jon Kratochvil joins as Vice President for Business Development & Licensing for North America … Continue reading →

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Oxford Nanopore makes stellar debut on UK stock market

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It has made Oxford Nanopore’s chief executive and cofounder Gordon Sanghera an on-paper fortune of £63 million, while another cofounder – chief business development officer Spike Willcocks – is now worth £30 million. Chief technology officer Clive Brown is also sitting on a £10 million stake.

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

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. “Complementing in-house expertise with external collaboration continues to be a priority in areas of high unmet medical need where insufficient, or no treatment options are currently available,” said Friedemann Janus, acting Head of Business Development and Licensing/Open Innovation, Pharmaceuticals Division, Bayer.

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Roche puts $70m into ArsenalBio’s programmable T-cell platform

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” ArsenalBio’s platform makes use of automation, large-scale genome engineering, using technologies like CRISPR-based gene-editing, and machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to design, build, and test cell therapies.

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Bayer Continues Eying Potential Partnerships in Cell and Gene Therapy Space

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Marianne De Backer, Head of Business Development & Licensing in Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals Division, pictured above. As a result, the company settled on four areas of focus – iPSC, allogenic CAR-T, genome mutations and gene editing. Photo courtesy of Bayer.

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LogicBio Therapeutics Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for LB-001 for the Treatment of Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA)

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It may also allow for priority or rolling review of a company’s Biologics License Application (BLA). LogicBio’s proprietary genome editing technology platform, GeneRide, enables the site-specific integration of a therapeutic transgene without nucleases or exogenous promoters by harnessing the native process of homologous recombination.

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Nov. 6

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VectivBio AG – Based in Switzerland, VectivBio named Sarah Holland as chief business officer and Aditya Venugopal as head of business development. Most recently, Holland served as Global Head of licensing at Lonza AG. Prior to Lonza, she led External Science and Partnering across the globe for Sanofi R&D.

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