Tag: cancer

Essay-based award honors Dean Wael Sakr's achievements and commitment to medical education and research; applications open now through April 15, 2027

WALTHAM, Mass., June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crescent Biopharma, Inc. (“Crescent” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CBIO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to rapidly advancing the next wave of therapies for cancer patients, today announced that the independent Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors approved the grant of options to purchase an aggregate of 65,100 shares of the Company’s ordinary shares to three non-executive employees as equity inducement awards under the Crescent Biopharma, Inc. 2025 Employment Inducement Incentive Award Plan, as amended (the “Inducement Plan”). The options were approved on June 25, 2026 and were material to each employee's acceptance of employment with Crescent, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

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Oslo, 26 June 2026 – Zelluna (OSE: ZLNA), a company pioneering allogeneic "off-the-shelf" T Cell Receptor-based Natural Killer (TCR-NK) cell therapies for the treatment of solid cancers, today announces that the NSGO-CTU sponsored Phase II DOVACC clinical trial (NCT04742075) investigating the Ultimovacs UV1 cancer vaccine, inherited through the business combination between the two companies in 2025, did not meet the primary endpoint. This concludes the previously communicated wrap-up phase of the UV1 cancer vaccine programme and Zelluna now considers the programme closed.