Vancouver-based Precision NanoSystems said today that it closed a $6m Series B round, with investments from 5AM Ventures, Telegraph Hill Partners and Rising Tide Fund. The company is slated to use its newly-acquired funds to support the expansion of its services, including its nanomedicine manufacturing platform, NanoAssemblr. Precision NanoSystems’ technology is designed to enable the […]
MIT researchers devise single-injection delivery method for polio vaccine
Although most of the world is protected from the polio virus thanks to a vaccine developed decades ago, some countries remain vulnerable to the disease thanks to challenges posed by a vaccine that requires repeat dosing. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to change that with a nanoparticle vaccine that can deliver multiple […]
Will medtech drive the next Southeastern U.S. industrial revolution?
Paul Snyder, Write2Market Once home to a thriving textile industry replete with chemical and mechanical engineers working to improve the soil and machinery converting raw cotton into commercial goods, upstate South Carolina may be on the precipice of its next industrial revolution: medtech. Born from technology developed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Greenville-based […]
NanOlogy looks to transform chemotherapy with localized delivery platform
Paclitaxel revolutionized cancer treatment when it was first used as a chemotherapeutic in the 1990s. But although the product is a powerful cancer killer, patients taking systemic doses of paclitaxel have to endure side effects such as peripheral neuropathy and hair loss. Marc Iacobucci and his team at NanOlogy believe they could replace the need […]
Nanobiotix’s nanoparticle-immunotherapy trial wins FDA approval
Nanobiotix (EMA:NANO) said today that the FDA has approved its IND application for a cancer trial combining its radiotherapy-activated nanoparticle tech with an anti-PD1 antibody. The Phase I/II trial is slated to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Nanobiotix’s NBTXR3 product administered with checkpoint inhibitors in three groups of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and […]
Aura Biosciences raises $30m for nanoparticle cancer treatment
Aura Biosciences has closed a $30 million Series C round with funding from new investors like Arix Bioscience and Lundbeckfonden Ventures, as well as existing investors, including the estate of former-Genzyme CEO Henri Termeer, who died earlier this year. The privately-held biotech is developing a light-activated nanoparticle therapy for patients with ocular melanoma. Aura said […]
NanOlogy takes nanoparticle tech into Phase II trials
In the last two weeks, NanOlogy has launched trials evaluating its cancer-fighting paclitaxel nanoparticle suspension in patients with prostate cancer and in patients with ovarian cancer. The Texas-based company’s nanoparticle tech is based on a production process that cuts the size of chemotherapy crystals by up to 400 times, creating stable nanoparticles with increased surface […]
Alzeca Biosciences raises $11m for Alzheimer’s diagnostic imaging agent
Alzeca Biosciences said today that it raised $11 million in a Series A round to fund the development of its MRI imaging agent designed for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The company touts its ADx nanoparticle as the first MRI contrast agent to target amyloid – a brain protein linked […]
Study: Drug-delivery micromotors treat bacterial infection in stomach
Researchers at the University of California San Deigo have successfully used tiny micromotors loaded with antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection in the stomachs of mice, according to a study published today in Nature Communications. The tiny drug-delivery vehicles are powered by gastric acid, pushing them through the stomach and releasing cargo in a specific region, […]
Novel nanotech enables earlier diagnosis, treatment of Zika virus
Researchers from Washington University have developed a novel diagnostic test that uses nanotech to rapidly detect the presence of Zika virus in blood samples. The team’s system, which was described in the journal Advanced Biosystems, could enable earlier diagnosis and treatment for people infected with Zika virus compared to traditional diagnostic methods. Often people infected with […]
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