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World’s first engineered B cell therapy enters human trials

Drug Discovery World

The first patient has been dosed with an engineered B cell investigational therapy in a Phase I trial in Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I). Immusoft is advancing the world’s first engineered B cell therapy, which may have significant impact for patients with this rare disease and potentially many others.

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Genetically engineered dendritic cells enhance lung cancer therapy

Drug Discovery World

A study by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center in the US suggests that injecting engineered dendritic cells directly into cancerous lung tumours can help promote a stronger immune response.

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Successful clinical trial for re-engineered Covid vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

The University of Queensland’s re-engineered clamp platform has produced a vaccine that is equally safe and virus-neutralising as an approved Covid vaccine considered among the best in its class. The post Successful clinical trial for re-engineered Covid vaccine appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Mask On: Researchers Engineer “Masked” IL-12 Treatment to Fight Cancer

BioSpace

Researchers and drug developers have searched for a way to deliver IL-12 to patients. Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering may have found one.

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Engineering researcher receives EPSCoR grant for electrocatalysis work

Scienmag

Research will provide scientific basis improving battery materials and electrocatalysts for polymer recycling and water treatment Credit: Russell Cothren, University of Arkansas Lauren Greenlee, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas, received a $750,000 award from the Department of Energy to investigate the chemical (..)

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Engineering researchers receive $1 million NSF grant for first networked-AI testbed

Scienmag

A new generation of networked, cooperating robots being developed by researchers in the Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (ca-ai.fau.edu) at Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science and Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) is all about “teamwork.”

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Donated 3.5-megawatt engine supports clean-energy hydrogen fuel research at CSU

Scienmag

Colorado State University’s Energy Institute is revving up its hydrogen and natural gas research capabilities with the recent arrival of an industrial turbine generator slated to be installed at the Powerhouse Energy Campus. that have similar engines for conducting large-scale research […].