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.
May 26, 2020
Kriya Therapeutics will focus on building internal manufacturing infrastructure in Durham after securing $80.5 million Series A financing.
May 22, 2020
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.
May 22, 2020
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.
May 21, 2020
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.
May 21, 2020
Durham-based IQVIA is managing an Australian clinical study of hydroxychloroquin to prevent a COVID-19 infection
May 21, 2020
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.
May 20, 2020
Greensboro's Kepley BioSystems has developed a natural liquid called K9 Strategic Scent Stimulant to help dogs avoid distraction while you're socially distancing on COVID-era walks.
May 19, 2020
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.
May 18, 2020
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.
May 14, 2020
LabCorp is offering employers COVID-19 testing solutions, including its at-home collection test kit, its new fingerstick antibody blood test, and in the fall, flu vaccination services.
May 14, 2020
Orion Integrated Biosciences, a Kansas-based biodefense company with a growing presence in North Carolina, plans to use artificial intelligence to design vaccines to fight COVID-19.
May 14, 2020
If you’ve been diagnosed with the COVID-19 coronavirus and have recovered, you can help researchers find a potential treatment for the disease by donating at one of Grifols' plasma collection sites.
May 8, 2020
A new North Carolina medical software company, Translational Imaging Innovations, is developing tools to help scientists and doctors get medical innovations into the eye clinic faster, with less frustration and at a lower cost.
May 8, 2020
RedHill Biopharma has received approval to test its investigational COVID-19 drug, opaganib, in the United States.
May 8, 2020
The Asheville Impact Micro Grant, a Venture Asheville program, will award $5,000 to five new startups in Haywood or Buncombe County this year.