NCBiotech News

Durham's home-grown Humacyte becomes a public company today, as it prepares for final FDA approval of its unique bioengineered human tissue replacement systems.

Jared Zimmel, a biomedical tech specialist on WakeMed’ s clinical engineering team, exemplifies the kind of entrepreneurial thinking that will be championed in a virtual conference, "Accelerating Health Care Innovation in North Carolina: Charting the Course," Sept. 23 and 24.

When a car parts manufacturing company decided to move its 300 Lee County jobs out of its Nash Street factory to a factory in Saltillo, Mexico, Lee County bought the Sanford site for more CCCC workforce training.

Seqirus hopes to raise the bar on flu prevention with the accelerated development of its next-generation vaccine technology, called self-amplifying messenger RNA – or sa-mRNA

Federal and local grants totaling $300,000 are enabling a new pharmaceutical manufacturing workforce training program at Durham Technical Community College.

Duke University spinout Istari Oncology is expanding its trial of an immune-boosting technology that uses variations of the polio vaccine to treat patients with cancer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific continues its run on the annual IndustryWeek Best Plants Award with the selection of its Greenville pharmaceutical manufacturing site as the 2021 winner.

Durham global CRO BioAgilytix, one of North Carolina’s fastest-growing life sciences businesses, has announced plans to buy Australia’s 360biolabs.

Tara Cameron decided she wanted to transition from her career as a certified nursing assistant into a new position in the medical field, so she turned to Wake Tech’s BioWork certificate program and now loves her career as a technician at pharmaceutical manufacturer FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies in Morrisville.

Raleigh medical device startup Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies just got another $4 million in an NCI grant to advance its efforts to develop a targeted drug delivery system to attack pancreatic cancer.

NCBiotech and UNC FastTraCS are collaborating with health systems across the state to help health care providers turn good ideas into useful clinician innovation at the inaugural “Accelerating Heath Care Innovation in North Carolina: Charting the Course” virtual conference Sept. 23 and 24.

Flush with new cash, Morrisville contract services organization Kymanox has acquired Neuma, a drug delivery services provider founded in 2017 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

RTP-based Agbiome has submitted a small- and large-molecule combination fungicide product candidate, Esendo, to the Environmental Protection Agency for review.

Peyton Howell of Paraxel International in Durham and Dave Oury of Medical Leverage in Cary were named to the PharmaVoice 100, an annual list that recognizes inspirational and innovative individuals who are making positive contributions to the life sciences

Metrics Contract Services, a full-service global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) based in Greenville, has expanded its facilities for producing oral, solid-dose drugs.