A new training center will be established in NovaMedica Innotech
GMP News
NovaMedica, a Russian pharmaceutical company and the investment project of RUSNANO, has announced the collaboration in the area of knowledge and technology transfer between NovaMedica Innotech, an R&D center, and Evonik, a German company and a leader in the global market of excipients for pharmaceutical industry.
Syndax entered a clinicial trial collaboration with AstraZeneca
GMP News
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies, announced a new clinical collaboration with AstraZeneca to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AstraZeneca’s durvalumab.
AstraZeneca, Syndax ally to test PD-L1 drug and CSF1R inhibitor in solid tumor patients
Nick Paul Taylor / FierceBiotech
AstraZeneca and Syndax have teamed up to test immune checkpoint inhibitor Imfinzi in combination with CSF1R inhibitor SNDX-6352. Syndax is set to put the cocktail through a phase 1b solid tumor trial to equip both companies to sponsor midphase trials to demonstrate its safety and efficacy.
#WBSMoscow
As the blockchain revolution gains momentum around the world, Trescon had the opportunity to interview Maxim Gorbachev, a Managing Partner at RMI Partners, on the evolving nature of blockchain. RMI Partners is a venture capital company established in 2012, with a strategic focus on investments supporting the development of innovative biopharmaceutical products and medical technologies.
Russia grants Hermes GMP certification at German and Austrian plants
Dan Stanton / In-Pharma Technologist.com
Since 2011, Russian policy has favoured local production in eorts to reduce reliance on pharmaceutical imports. Vladimir Putin’s ‘Pharma 2020’ policy pushes for as much 90% of drugs consumed in Russia to be made domestically by 2020. Such policies have led multinationals to tap the market through collaborations with domestic drugmakers. Pfizer, for example, teamed with Russian pharma firm NovaMedica last May to build an aseptic manufacturing plant in.
Start Up Spotlight: OCON Medical Bets On A New 3D Copper Contraceptive Device
Catherine Longworth / MedTech Insight
Israeli start up OCON Medical is blazing a trail in the field of women's health with a new hormone-free contraceptive device. The company's IUB – intrauterine ball consists of copper pearls that prevent pregnancy locally within the uterus for five years.
Genentech, Syndax expand HDAC-PD-L1 combination pact
Nick Paul Taylor / FierceBiotech
Genentech and Syndax have expanded their exploration of the effects of combining HDAC and PD-L1 inhibitors. The new agreement clears the Roche subsidiary to test its Tecentriq in combination with Syndax’s entinostat in a subset of breast cancer patients.
NovaMedica Innotech R&D center meets Russian GMP standards
GMP News
NovaMedica, a Russian pharmaceutical company and investment project of RUSNANO, announced that it received the conclusion of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade on the compliance of the production site of NovaMedica Innotech R&D center, a subsidiary of NovaMedica, with the Russian Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards.
Authorities approve the application of NovaMedica for a new production facility
GMP News
NovaMedica, a Russian pharmaceutical company and investment project of RUSNANO, announced that it received the approval of the Inter-Agency Commission for conclusion of Special Investment Contract (SPIC) under the investment project aimed at establishing a pharmaceutical plant for sterile injectable drugs in the Kaluga region.
An Epic quest to detect cancer
Bradley J. Fikes / The San-Diego Union Tribune
Finding needles in a haystack is the life-and-death job of San Diego’s Epic Sciences. The needles are extremely rare cancer cells that hide among the millions of normal cells in the blood of cancer patients.
The RMI group has completed sertain projects
The RMI Group has exited from the capital of portfolio companies:
Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc.