Mark Zipkin

Codiak has two engineered exosome programs in Phase I, each showing different types of engineering possibilities to deliver targeted payloads that pharmaceutical companies haven’t managed to push all the way through the clinic.
New therapeutic modalities always face an uphill climb, but the urgency of COVID-19 may have opened the door for two related ones: cell therapies and exosomes.
New research shows T cells can be engineered to migrate more effectively inside tumor microenvironments, raising hopes of reproducing the remarkable outcomes seen for certain hematological cancer patient subsets in broader populations and indications.
With an oral presentation and a poster at the ASCO Annual Meeting this year, Seres Therapeutics sought to bolster the case for two of its microbiome therapeutics programs.
University of Cambridge researchers published the first preclinical validation for a novel therapeutic strategy targeting epitranscriptomic modifiers of RNA, opening the door for spinout STORM Therapeutics’ AML therapy–and potentially much more.
Two different companies, cardiac fibrosis RNA company HAYA Therapeutics and COVID-19 bispecific player RenBio, launched today with funding rounds designed to push them toward the clinic.
On the back of the two positive Phase III trials, Ortho said it will submit a new drug application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the second half of 2022.
The fund will seek to invest in at least 20 startups located in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Software company Medable raised a $78 million extension on its Series C round–totaling $194 million in venture funding over three raises in the past year–to tap the growing opportunity in decentralized digital clinical trials.
Amarin announced the forthcoming retirement of President and CEO John Thero, and the elevation of current head of commercial for Europe and senior vice president Karim Mikhail to the top role.
The $3.1 million NCATS grant will help the company test SPI-1005 in two trials, both OK’d by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last August.
Philadelphia-based Mineralys Therapeutics launched today with a $40 million Series A round to move its clinical asset, MLS-101, into Phase II testing for hypertension.
The news comes months after the company closed a $63 million Series B and inlicensed RAIN-32 from Daiichi Sankyo.
Days after announcing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the next clinical trials to launch for its lead natural killer (NK) cell therapies, NKMax America announced it has renamed itself NKGen Biotech.
A manufacturing mistake at Emergent Biosolutions ruined a 15 million-dose batch of Johnson & Johnson’s Vaxzevria in production.