Aifred Health, a Montreal-based digital healthcare company, today announced the closing of a $4 million seed financing.
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ExCellThera Inc., a company focusing on cellular and molecular medicine at the advanced clinical stage, will receive a repayable contribution of up to $4 million from Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED) as part of its launch of commercial production activities.
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Roche partners with AI leaders Amii, Mila and the Vector Institute to drive digital transformation in health
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Health Canada today granted authorization, under the Interim Order Respecting the Importation, Sale and Advertising of Drugs for Use in Relation to COVID-19, for the use of bamlanivimab (LY-CoV-555) as a treatment of adults and pediatric patients 12 years of age or older with mild to moderate COVID-19 who weigh at least 40 kg and are at high risk of progressing to severe COVID-19 illness and/or hospitalization, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced.
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TVM Capital Life Science, one of the leading life sciences venture capital firms in North America and Europe, today announced the final closing of its latest fund, TVM Life Science Innovation II (TVM LSI II).
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enGene Inc., a biotechnology company developing non-viral gene therapies for local administration into mucosal tissues enabled by its proprietary DDX platform, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for EG-70, a first-in-class non-viral gene therapy for the expression of innate and adaptive immune system activators circumscribed to the bladder. Under this IND, enGene intends to initiate its Phase 1/2, multi-center study in patients with Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in early 2021.
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Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte shared additional data that showed baricitinib in combination with remdesivir reduced time to recovery and improved clinical outcomes for patients with COVID-19 infection compared with remdesivir.
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Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. announced today the launch of the Novartis Canada Biome, an innovative hub that will bring together and empower emerging tech companies and people who are passionate about disrupting healthcare through data and digital technologies.
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Génome Québec, in partnership with the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and McMaster University, is proud to announce funding for a new research project intended to accelerate the discovery of antiviral COVID-19 medications.
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ExCellThera Inc., a clinical-stage molecular medicine company delivering molecules and bioengineering solutions to expand stem and immune cells for therapeutic use, announced today that it has received Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) classification from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for ExCellThera’s most advanced technology, ECT-001 Cell Therapy.
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Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. is pleased to announce that Health Canada has approved Luxturna® (voretigene neparvovec), a one-time gene therapy for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with vision loss due to inherited retinal dystrophy caused by confirmed biallelic RPE65 mutations and who have sufficient viable retinal cells. The presence of biallelic RPE65 mutations should be confirmed by an accredited laboratory using validated assay methods.
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Verzenio in combination with endocrine therapy is the only CDK4 & 6 inhibitor to demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in invasive disease-free survival (IDFS) in early breast cancer
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IMV Inc. (Nasdaq: IMV; TSX: IMV), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering a novel class of cancer immunotherapies and vaccines against infectious diseases, today provides updates on its vaccine candidate, DPX-COVID-19, for the prevention of infection caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2.
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The recent pandemic has highlighted the importance of staying healthy so that you can better fight an infection or disease, if necessary. A Concordia University researcher has discovered 15 new plant extracts that help fight, not against infection, but against aging.
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Domain Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery and development of new drugs targeting G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) in immuno-oncology, neurology and rare diseases, announces today the signing of a collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc.
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The Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC) and adMare BioInnovations (adMare) are pleased to announce they have formed a new collaboration, “The CPDC-adMare Radiopharmaceutical Initiative (CARI)” to bring their respective resources together to advance an area of tremendous therapeutic and commercial potential in which Canada can gain a considerable global competitive advantage: radiopharmaceuticals.
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Twelve years ago some of the biggest names in pharmaceuticals abandoned a class of weight-loss drugs they had thought would deliver blockbuster sales. The drugs worked – but also caused psychiatric disorders in many patients, and regulators rejected them.
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The Fonds de solidarité FTQ is investing $10 million in Inversago, a Québec biotech firm focused on the development of treatments for rare diseases such as Prader-Willi Syndrome and metabolic disorders such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and type 1 diabetes.
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Vantage BioTrials, a full service Contract Research Organization (CRO), has partnered with its biotech Sponsor, Laurent Pharmaceuticals, to lead all clinical trial management activities of their lead oral drug candidate LAU-7b in a multicentric Phase 2 placebo-controlled clinical trial (RESOLUTION) in patients with COVID-19.
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Laurent Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Montreal-based biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to start enrolling U.S. patients in RESOLUTION, a multicentric Phase 2 randomized placebo-controlled trial testing once-a-day oral LAU-7b as a potential treatment against COVID-19 disease. RESOLUTION, which is currently ongoing in Canada, will enroll approximately 200 hospitalized COVID-19 patients who will receive either LAU-7B or a placebo for a treatment duration of 14 days. The company is in advanced discussions with a number of U.S. hospitals interested to participate in the trial and is looking to activate them very soon.
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