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SOUTH SAN FRANSCISCO, Calif., June 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CERo Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., (Nasdaq: CERO) (“CERo” or the “Company”) an innovative immunotherapy company seeking to advance the next generation of  engineered T cell therapeutics that deploy phagocytic mechanisms, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted CERo’s Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for the company's lead drug candidate CER-1236, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). CER-1236 is an innovative therapy that engineers a cancer patient's own T cell therapeutics that deploy phagocytic (i.e., target-cell eating) mechanisms alongside the array of built-in target cell destroying mechanisms used by T cells.

NEW YORK, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., a nationally recognized shareholder rights law firm, reminds investors that class actions have been commenced on behalf of stockholders of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (OTC:RBGLY), UroGen Pharma Ltd. (NASDAQ:URGN), Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCAT) and Fortrea Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:FTRE). Stockholders have until the deadlines below to petition the court to serve as lead plaintiff. Additional information about each case can be found at the link provided.

PETACH TIKVA, Israel, June 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PolyPid Ltd. (Nasdaq: PYPD) (“PolyPid” or the “Company”), a late-stage biopharma company aiming to improve surgical outcomes, today announced that following its recently announced successful SHIELD II phase 3 topline results, it has secured additional funding through the exercise of warrants with aggregate gross proceeds of $26.7 million. The Company anticipates that with this additional funding, PolyPid’s runway would be extended beyond anticipated FDA approval of D-PLEX₁₀₀.

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TORONTO, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MediPharm Labs Corp. (TSX: LABS) (OTCQB: MEDIF) (FSE: MLZ) (“MediPharm” or the “Company”), a pharmaceutical company specialized in precision-based cannabinoids, wishes to respond to a misleading press release published earlier today by Apollo Technology Capital Corporation (“Apollo”) prematurely claiming that it considers the results of the annual and special meeting of shareholders scheduled to take place at 3:00 p.m. today (the “Meeting”) to be a clear victory for Apollo.

MALVERN, Pa., June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocugen, Inc. (Ocugen or the Company) (NASDAQ: OCGN), a pioneering biotechnology leader in gene therapies for blindness diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) amendment to initiate a Phase 2/3 pivotal confirmatory trial of OCU410ST, a modifier gene therapy candidate being developed for all Stargardt disease (ABCA4-associated retinopathies). The FDA previously granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation (RPDD) and Orphan Drug Designation for OCU410ST for the treatment of ABCA4-associated retinopathies including Stargardt disease, retinitis pigmentosa 19, and cone-rod dystrophy 3.