Seth Benson joins the executive team at Nuclera as Chief Financial Officer, bringing extensive life sciences financial expertise to drive the company’s global commercial expansion of its eProtein Discovery system following a $75 million financing round
Celonic Group, a dedicated biologics contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has finalised a multi-year commercial manufacturing agreement with LINDIS Biotech for catumaxomab production. The announcement, made on 19 February 2025, establishes Celonic’s Heidelberg facility as the manufacturing hub for this first-in-class therapeutic antibody.
Sphere Fluidics, a pioneer in droplet-based microfluidics technology, has announced its comprehensive rebranding to Sphere Bio. The name change, revealed on 25th February 2025, signifies the company’s strategic pivot and commercial growth trajectory as it continues to expand its footprint in the single-cell analysis market.
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced the acquisition of Intra-Cellular Therapies for $14.6 billion, marking a significant expansion of its neuroscience portfolio. The deal centres on CAPLYTA (lumateperone), a novel antipsychotic with a distinctive pharmacological profile characterised by high serotonin 5-HT2A receptor occupancy combined with lower dopamine D2 receptor binding at therapeutic doses.
PrecisionLife has appointed Bill Keating as chief commercial officer for diagnostics and healthcare, marking a significant step in the company’s expansion of its Mechanostic testing platform for complex chronic diseases. The Oxford-based precision medicine company announced the appointment on 8 January 2025, signalling an intensified focus on commercialising its non-invasive genotypic testing capabilities.
Revvity Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with Element Biosciences Inc. to develop and commercialise an in vitro diagnostic (IVD) workflow solution for neonatal sequencing. The collaboration builds upon Revvity’s existing next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow for newborn sequencing research and aims to strengthen Element’s regulatory approval pathway for their AVITI benchtop sequencing system.
Roche has announced a definitive merger agreement to acquire the San Diego-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Poseida Therapeutics, marking a significant expansion of its cell therapy portfolio. The acquisition, valued at up to US$1.5 billion, builds upon an existing partnership established in 2022 and aims to accelerate the development of off-the-shelf CAR-T cell therapies.
Leica Biosystems has announced a significant strategic investment in artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Indica Labs, marking a pivotal advancement in digital pathology. The collaboration, announced on 8 January 2025, aims to accelerate the development of AI-enabled companion diagnostics (CDx) and enhance the detection of complex biomarker expression profiles that exceed human visual capabilities.
South West London Pathology (SWLP) has initiated a comprehensive modernisation of its clinical blood science services, beginning with the installation of state-of-the-art analysers at Croydon Hospital. This development marks the first phase of a broader implementation strategy across the SWLP network, encompassing clinical chemistry, haematology, coagulation, serology, and pre-analytical automation systems.
A new machine learning algorithm developed by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital researchers enables faster and more accurate analysis of large-scale single-cell gene expression datasets, potentially accelerating discoveries in cancer and other diseases.
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