Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

CPhI: The Pharma Awards winners

At the CPhI Worldwide in Frankfurt, the winners of the 2019 Pharma awards were announced. The CEO of WuXi AppTec, Dr. Ge Li, received the award in category CEO of the year among 12 other categories.

NSCLC: Bemcentinib + anti-PD1 triple PFS

Bergen Bio ASA’s Axl kinase blocker bemcentinib in combination with MSD’s pembrolizumab has met the primary endpoint in a Phase II study in patients with non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Sustainable DNA extraction

BioEcho develops single-spin and 96-well kits for the isolation of DNA from different starting materials. In contrast to common bind-wash-elute procedures their proprietary EchoLUTION single-step technology avoids the use of inhibitory or harmful process reagents and does not require washing steps.

Sherlock Bioscience and Mologic enter partnership

Synbio specialist Sherlock Biosciences and next-generation lateral flow testing expert Mologic Ltd have joined forces to develop a no-instrument rapid testing platform detecting virtually every infectious pathogen in low resource settings.