NCBiotech News

Seventeen months after negotiating a whopping $4 billion buyout deal with German pharma giant Bayer, AskBio CEO and co-founder Sheila Mikhail says the pioneering gene therapy company is hitting all its targets.

Procter & Gamble Co., the world’s largest maker of packaged consumer goods, will invest $110 million and create 46 jobs as it expands its manufacturing plant in Greensboro.

Durham-based Bioventus has received an FDA OK to market its next-generation pain treatment device, the StimRouter Neuromodulation System.

Business leaders and legislators met at Pitt Community College last week to discuss the college's expanding efforts to grow a skilled regional pharmaceutical manufacturing workforce.

RTP's Biomason has raised $65 million in Series C financing to accelerate development of its technology for growing biocement with bacteria.

Impact investing is on the rise, and local pharmaceutical industry insiders presenting as part of a “who’s who” speaker lineup at LaunchBio’s recent Invest in Cures forum say it’s already paying off.

Over-the-counter pharmaceutical, vitamin, and supplement products manufacturer BestCo has announced plans for a $177 million expansion of its Mooresville manufacturing site, creating 394 jobs.

Here's an overview of some of the life sciences action that continues to build economic momentum in Wilmington and throughout Southeastern North Carolina.

Raleigh-based specialty pharma company BioDelivery Sciences International has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Massachusetts pharma company Collegium Pharmaceutica.

NC BioNetwork is teaming up with biopharmaceutical companies from across the state for an April 21 virtual career fair to run from 3 to 6 p.m.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 17 grants and loans totaling $1.3 million to universities, bioscience companies and nonprofit organizations in the second quarter of its fiscal year.

MeTree, a Duke University biotech spinout that has invented a family health history tool, just got recognition from President Joe Biden’s Cancer Panel as a tool to optimize cancer screening.

Pairwise has agreed to grant access to its base editing technology to U.K.-headquartered Tropic Biosciences to help improve banana.and coffee crops.

Greensboro-based Qorvo Biotechnologies has received a $4.1 million follow-on contact from the NIH to support its COVID-related diagnostic test platform

A partnership between NCBiotech and NC State University is leading to purple carrots as a promising cash crop for NC farmers, boosted by a USDA grant to plant genomics researcher Massimo Iorizzo, Ph.D., at the NC Research Campus in Kannapolis.