Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. The funding could be as much as $100 million, and the first grants will be announced in 2017. —The U.S. PRICE FIGHTS.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. PureTech also bucked the Brexit fallout this week.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

All eyes are on Holmes, who is scheduled to present data from the company’s technology at a medical conference on August 1. million Series A to develop a drug, licensed from Columbia University, for the brain cancer glioblastoma… Lyndra , a Cambridge startup working on oral drug delivery technology, has received $5.4

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2016

Despite technical differences and the early nature of the data that made comparison difficult, Wall Street declared Spark this week’s winner. . —More updates from the hematology meeting: Philadelphia-based Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ) and Dutch firm UniQure (NASDAQ: QURE ) both updated their hemophilia B gene therapy programs.

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