Tag: tumors

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.

Berlin, Germany – June 17th, 2025 – Captain T Cell GmbH, a biotech company developing next-generation TCR-based cell therapies for patients with solid tumors, today announced that it has been selected for residency in the Bayer Co.Lab incubator in Berlin.

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.

Garching / Munich, Germany, and Grenoble, France, June 16, 2025 – ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM) and the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), today announced an extension of their collaboration for medical radioisotope production, originally established in 2009. Under the terms of the renewed agreement, ITM will receive priority access to half of the available neutron irradiation capacity at ILL’s High-Flux Reactor, its neutron irradiation facility, for the production of non-carrier-added Lutetium-177 (n.c.a. Lu-177), a critical medical radioisotope used for radiopharmaceutical therapies for cancer treatment and diagnosis. As the globally leading manufacturer of n.c.a. Lu-177, ITM is committed to maintaining and expanding its robust manufacturing and production capabilities to meet the growing demand for this vital medical radioisotope.

Results from the Phase 2 RedirecTT-1 study demonstrate deep responses with 78.9 percent overall response rate through dual targeting of GPRC5D and BCMA¹ 

PARAMUS, N.J., June 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Starton Therapeutics Inc. (“Starton”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company transforming standard-of-care therapies with proprietary continuous delivery technologies, announced today Gabrail Cancer Center (GCC) in Canton, Ohio is now activated and open for enrolling patients in its Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating their continuous low-dose lenalidomide, STAR-LLD, for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). Dr. Nash Gabrail, medical oncologist and founder of the Center, is the study’s lead investigator. Regional Medical Oncology Center, located in Wilson, NC, has also opened as the trial’s second active clinical site.