NCBiotech News

Parexel International Corp., a global contract research organization headquartered near Boston, agreed today to add 264 employees to its Durham operations and turn the site into a shared headquarters by adding some key functions to the North Carolina campus.

North Carolina’s global gene therapy leadership was boosted today with the announcement that AveXis, Inc., is doubling its planned workforce and investing $60 million more in its new Durham County manufacturing facility.

Life Science Intelligence Research Analyst Allison Cruise has been named a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow.

Former North Carolina State Representative and NCBiotech advocate Jack Hunt has died. 

Hunt played a prominent role in establishing NCBiotech and was an emeritus member of its board of directors.

He died peacefully at his Lattimore home in Cleveland County May 27 at the age of 97. His wife of 71 years, Ruby, died three years earlier in 2017. The couple leaves behind five daughters, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

KriGen Pharmaceuticals, a young India-based pharmaceutical company, is investing $7 million and hiring 100 employees at its new manufacturing facility and quality control lab in the Harnett County community of Lillington, about 30 miles south of Raleigh.

Kriya Therapeutics will focus on building internal manufacturing infrastructure in Durham after securing $80.5 million Series A financing.

Corteva Agriscience, a spinout from Dow/Dupont with two North Carolina locations, is consolidating its corn and soybean seed products under the single Pioneer label in the mid-South and Southeastern U.S.

RTP incubator First Flight Venture Center offers excellent office and lab space options to young science-based companies ready for the leap from stay-at-home, makeshift setups.

NCBiotech has won a $50,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) program to help Advanced Animal Diagnostics adapt its animal testing platform into a human COVID-19 test system.

Durham-based IQVIA is managing an Australian clinical study of hydroxychloroquin to prevent a COVID-19 infection

TeraRecon, a company that builds comprehensive medical imaging software using artificial intelligence, recently got a new owner, moved its headquarters from SIlicon Valley to Durham, and almost overnight built a new COVID-19 imaging software.

NC BIONEER announced the four award winners in its inaugural entrepreneurial initiative launched by the NCBiotech Southeastern office and the UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

ViiV Healthcare, a global HIV specialty company with U.S. headquarters in RTP, says preliminary clinical trial results show its every-other-month injectable is more effective than the current standard-of-care daily oral medication in preventing HIV.