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Moderna Receives MHRA Approval for Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Targeting SARS-CoV-2 Variant LP.8.1

The LP.8.1 vaccine is the first commercially licenced mRNA vaccine to be manufactured in the UK at the Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre in Oxfordshire The updated vaccines will be...

Category: Biotechnology, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: February 10, 2026

Moderna
info@modernatx.com
Global Headquarters 200 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139

Levicept Announces the Appointment of James Sandy as Chief Development Officer

Leadership Team Strengthened to Support Clinical Development of LEVI-04 for Osteoarthritis 4 February 2026 -- Sandwich, UK -- Levicept Ltd, a biotechnology company focused on the development of LEVI-04, a...

Category: Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: February 4, 2026

Levicept
info@levicept.com
Innovation House Discovery Park Ramsgate Road Sandwich Kent CT13 9ND

Fresenius Kabi, TQ Therapeutics Announce Cell Therapy Technology Agreement

Initiative Focused on Scaling Advanced Cell and Gene Therapy to Enhance Patient Access 14 January 2026 -- Illinois, US -- Fresenius Kabi, an operating company of Fresenius, and TQ Therapeutics, announced...

Category: BioManufacturing, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Manufacturing and Packing, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 14, 2026

Fresenius Kabi
communications.USA@fresenius-kabi.com
Three Corporate Drive Lake Zurich, Illinois 60047

Integrated DNA Technologies Expands Synthetic Biology Portfolio with Ansa Biotechnologies’ Clonal DNA and XL Clonal DNA Products

New collaboration empowers customers with sequence-perfect constructs as long as 50 kb 14 January 2026 -- California, US -- Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a Danaher company and a global leader...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 14, 2026

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)
custcare@idtdna.com

Allogene Therapeutics Positions 2026 as a Program-Defining Year for Scalable, Real-World Allogeneic CAR T

1H 2026 Catalyst Stack Anticipated to Validate Scalable, Off-the-Shelf CAR T in Oncology and Autoimmune Disease Interim Futility Analysis of MRD Clearance from the Pivotal Phase 2 ALPHA3 Trial with...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 8, 2026

Allogene Therapeutics
210 E. Grand Avenue South San Francisco, CA 94080

AskBio Announces FDA Acceptance of Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for AB-1009 Gene Therapy for Treatment of Late-Onset Pompe Disease (LOPD)

AB-1009 program advances to Phase 1/Phase 2; clinical trial initiated in the United States Therapy granted United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Fast Track and Orphan Drug designations Pompe...

Category: Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: January 8, 2026

AskBio
info@askbio.com
20 T.W. Alexander Drive Suite, 110 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Data from GNT-018-IDES trial supports feasibility of imlifidase as pretreatment in gene therapy treatment for patients with Crigler–Najjar syndrome who are immune to AAV

Results presented today at ESGCT 2025 10 October 2025 -- Paris, France and Lund, Sweden -- Genethon, a worldwide pioneer and leader in research and development of gene therapy for rare...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: October 10, 2025

Genethon
1 bis, rue de l’Internationale 91000 EVRY-COURCOURONNES

Nilo Therapeutics launches with $101 million Series A financing to advance a new class of medicines targeting neural circuits in immune disease and appoints Kim Seth as Chief Executive Officer

Series A led by The Column Group, DCVC Bio, and Lux Capital, with participation from the Gates Foundation and Alexandria Venture Investments 8 October 2025 -- New York, New York...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: October 8, 2025

Nilo Therapeutics
info@nilotx.com

Relief Therapeutics and NeuroX, Successor to MindMaze, Sign Definitive Agreement for Business Combination

Companies sign definitive agreement following previously announced binding term sheet Transaction to create an expanded, SIX-listed, commercial-stage, AI-driven, scalable health tech company Combined company to be renamed MindMaze Therapeutics Holding...

Category: Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: October 8, 2025

Relief Therapeutics
contact@relieftherapeutics.com
Avenue de Sécheron 15 1202 Geneva Switzerland

eXmoor Pharma and Siam Bioscience form strategic partnership to establish leading Cell and Gene Therapy services in Southeast Asia

23 September 2025 -- Bristol, UK and Bangkok, Thailand -- eXmoor Pharma, the integrated cell and gene therapy CDMO with embedded consultancy expertise, and Siam Bioscience, a leading biopharmaceutical company...

Category: BioManufacturing, Manufacturing and Packing, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: September 23, 2025

eXmoor Pharma
info@exmoorpharma.com
Britannia Road, Patchway, Bristol, BS34 5TA

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies Supports Expanded Access to Rare Disease Therapies in Latin America  

Regulatory approvals in 14 countries expand treatment options for sickle cell disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome and myasthenia gravis Approvals align with the historic World Health Assembly resolution on rare diseases. 16...

Category: Biotechnology, Drug Delivery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: September 16, 2025

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies
Old Belfast Road Millbrook Larne BT40 2SH

Terumo BCT and PwC Belgium Join Forces to Break Barriers in Access to Advanced Cell and Gene Therapies 

2 September 2025 -- Brussels, Belgium -- Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, (Terumo BCT), a medical technology company, and PwC Belgium today announce a new collaboration focused on driving equitable...

Category: Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Logistics, Manufacturing and Packing
Posted: September 8, 2025

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies
Old Belfast Road Millbrook Larne BT40 2SH

ProQR Announces Upcoming Scientific Presentations at ASGCT and TIDES Conferences

12 May 2025 -- Leiden, the Netherlands and Massachusetts, US -- ProQR Therapeutics NV (ProQR), a company dedicated to changing lives through transformative RNA therapies based on its proprietary Axiomer™...

Category: BioManufacturing, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: May 15, 2025

ProQR Therapeutics
info@proqr.com
Zernikedreef 9 2333 CK Leiden The Netherlands

Bionova Scientific Licenses ATUM’s Proprietary Transposon-Based Gene Delivery Technology to Accelerate & De-Risk Cell Line Development

7 May 2025 -- California, US and Düsseldorf, Germany -- Bionova Scientific, an Asahi Kasei boutique commercial-scale biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced it has licensed ATUM’s...

Category: Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Manufacturing and Packing, Pharmaceutical
Posted: May 7, 2025

Bionova Scientific
3288 Laurelview Ct. Fremont, CA 94538

Rilzabrutinib granted orphan drug designation in the US for two rare diseases with no approved medicines

Designation granted for warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia and IgG4-related disease Rilzabrutinib is currently under regulatory review in the US, EU and China for potential use in immune thrombocytopenia.  3 April...

Category: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Other, Pharmaceutical
Posted: April 3, 2025

Sanofi
One Onslow Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4YS, UK