Noetik Inc. has closed an oversubscribed $14 million seed financing round. The company has built a multimodal tissue profiling platform that combines self-supervised learning with spatial biology to tackle problems in cancer immunology.
Xtalpi Inc. and Parthenon Therapeutics Inc. (now known as Incendia Therapeutics Inc.) have entered into a collaboration to discover novel therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of solid tumors.
Intelligent Omics Ltd. has established a target discovery collaboration with Janssen Research & Development LLC, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, to evaluate novel biological targets for the treatment of hematological cancers.
Serengen GmbH and Deargen Inc. have established a collaboration to accelerate the drug discovery process by bringing together Serengen’s novel DNA encoded library (DEL) technology with Deargen’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery platform, Deardti.
3Z ehf and Biotx.ai AG have established a strategic partnership to help advance the development of drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Insilicotrials Technologies SpA has entered into a collaborative partnership with Axoltis Pharma SA in the field of central nervous system (CNS) diseases, with the aim of optimizing the clinical development plan for Axoltis’ drug candidate, NX-210c.
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to entice. On the exhibition floor at the 2023 Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, one company’s booth featured “Mindart” technology. A passersby could answer a short series of prompts, and get a unique image based on the input made by generative AI. Entertainment aside, medically speaking, AI applications “are still research,” Riccardo Soffietti told his audience at one of several sessions devoted to AI. “But obviously, research is the future.”
Lantern Pharma Inc. has entered into a research collaboration with Bielefeld University to develop antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) with therapeutic and antitumor potential. Using Lantern’s proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) platform, RADR, the collaboration will leverage insights from the recently developed RADR AI ADC module in combination with research from Bielefeld.