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MONROVIA, Calif., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xencor, Inc., a company using its proprietary Protein Design Automation® (PDA) platform technology to engineer next-generation antibodies, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued Xencor a broad patent covering optimized monoclonal antibody variants and their application for extending in vivo half-life of antibodies. U.S. Patent 8,088,376 is the latest in Xencor's expanding portfolio of patents covering...
HERZLIYA, Israel and NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals, an emerging leader in the development of antibody based therapeutics for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancer, today announced the appointment of Isaac Kobrin, M.D. to its Board of Directors. Dr. Kobrin will play a key role in helping build IMMUNE into a leading global biopharmaceutical company. "We are thrilled and honored to welcome Isaac to the IMMUNE Board of Directors," said...
Strategic collaboration agreement will bring scientists together to work toward new biologic options for cancer and other diseases ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders from the University of Michigan Medical School and MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, have signed a new agreement to work together on a broad range of projects. The three-year strategic collaboration will bring scientists from one of the nation's top medical research institutions...
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AgonOx today announced that it has entered into an exclusive global partnership with MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, to develop agonists using its OX40 platform. MedImmune will lead further preclinical and clinical studies of this tumor-specific T-cell immunity stimulator for the potential treatment of cancer. "We are very pleased to collaborate with MedImmune to advance our OX40 agonist programs," said AgonOx CEO Llew...
GENEVA, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Selexis SA announced today it has appointed three leading, internationally recognized scientists to its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The appointed members bring expertise in the areas of gene expression and cell line development, monoclonal antibodies and therapeutic proteins. Selexis formed the SAB to expand the Company's SURE Technology Platform(TM) into the significant drug discovery and R&D market segments. The SAB members...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals, an emerging leader in the development of Antibody based Therapeutics for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancer, today announced the appointment of Dr. Alan Harris, M.D., Ph.D., to the position of Chief Medical Officer. In this new position, Dr. Harris will play a pivotal role in the development of Bertilimumab, IMMUNE's phase II ready fully human monoclonal antibody in development for Crohn's Disease and...
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NBS) ("NeoStem" or the "Company"), an international biopharmaceutical company with a focus on cell based therapeutics development, today reported on important progress toward the commencement of a Phase II clinical trial for AMR-001, the lead product candidate of Amorcyte, Inc. ("Amorcyte") for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. This comes after recent positive developments with respect to moving AMR-001 through...
GENEVA, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Selexis SA, a global life science company with technologies for drug discovery, cell line development and scale-up to manufacturing of therapeutic proteins announced today the Company's CEO, Dr. Igor Fisch, has been elected to Affitech's (NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen) board of directors effective April 28, 2011. Denmark-based Affitech is a biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery and development of human antibody based therapeutics in cancer and...
SAN DIEGO, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pfenex Inc., an industry leader in protein expression through the Pfenex Expression Technology(TM) platform, announced today a three year strategic collaboration with MedImmune LLC, the global biologics business of AstraZeneca. The agreement provides MedImmune with non-exclusive access to Pfenex Expression Technology and scientific resources for the development of bioprocesses for human therapeutic proteins and vaccines. Pfenex Inc. will engineer...
SHANGHAI, March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- ShangPharma Corporation (NYSE: SHP) ("ShangPharma" or the "Company"), a leading China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourcing company, today announced that its wholly-owned contract research subsidiary, Shanghai ChemPartner, has signed an outsource research service agreement with Shenogen Pharma Group to develop therapeutic monoclonal antibodies targeting the ER-alpha 36 receptor for cancer treatment....
