NCBiotech News
We work hard to bring you the stories about the life science community in North Carolina. Every once in a while, we add a little news of our own. Read some of those stories below, or check out some of our perspectives on our staff blog.
June 23, 2020
Jude Samulski, a UNC gene therapy pioneer, has been awarded an international patent application by the World Intellectual Property Organization for his regulated gene-editing system.
June 19, 2020
Grant funding from NCBiotech is helping NC State researchers take an early but important step in moving DNA storage from exciting idea to functional reality.
June 19, 2020
A Durham startup, BIOMILQ, has a mission to replicate the nutritional profile of breastmilk with mammary cells outside the body.
June 19, 2020
Azzur Labs, an analytical laboratory serving the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries, has named Marie France Quillen as senior director of the expanding Raleigh operation.
June 18, 2020
Metabolon has teamed up with Canadian biotech firm DNA Genotek to develop a better device to collect, store and ship fecal samples for metabolomics research.
June 18, 2020
Armed with federal grants and contracts totaling nearly $600 million, Duke has leased 273,000 square feet that will be retrofitted in the Parmer RTP research and development campus for vaccine development.
June 17, 2020
Shattuck Labs is changing the face of cancer therapy, aided by $118 million Series B equity financing that will push its clinical research on cancer immunotherapy to the next level.
June 17, 2020
Santo Costa, an attorney and long-time pharmaceutical executive, has been elected chairman of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Board of Directors.
June 17, 2020
Durham's Bio Products Laboratory USA has launched two new plasma therapies covering six serious medical conditions, as it also works on developing a COVID-19 treatment.
June 16, 2020
Durham-based FoodLogiQ, is collaborating with three other food industry technology leaders to keep the food supply safer by identifying and tracking products, so food companies can respond faster, with better results, when safety issues arise.
June 16, 2020
Durham's Path BioAnalytics is teaming up with impact investors and a digital health company to find a cure for pancreatitis.
June 15, 2020
Advanced Animal Diagnostics is using a $50,000 grant from NCBiotech, through a program established by the Wells Fargo Foundation, to “repurpose” its blood test platform designed to detect disease in cattle, to add a screen for COVID-19 in humans.
June 13, 2020
NCBiotech provided a $250,000 loan to bootstrap CasTag BioSciences, a Duke spinout based on a technology that marks proteins in an entirely new way, using the genome-editing tool CRISPR. The resulting products are selling, and the potential is HiUGE.
June 11, 2020
Grifols, a global biotherapeutics company with major operations in North Carolina, has begun producing the first specific COVID-19 drug at its manufacturing campus in Clayton.
June 10, 2020
“The future of biopharma is in females,” said Mycovia CEO Patrick Jordan earlier this week during a panel discussion at the BIO Digital life sciences conference.