A team of scientists led by The Wistar Institute has been awarded a 5-year National Cancer Institute (NCI) Program Project Grant valued at more than $12 million to explore the role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in epithelial cancers. The project, which brings together scientists from The Wistar Institute and Harvard University, will focus entirely on the EBV-epithelial cancer link and look at metabolic and epigenetic vulnerabilities simultaneously.
Nysnobio Inc. has received a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to assist the advancement of the company’s lead parkin gene replacement therapy candidate, NB-001. The funding will support product manufacturing to enable IND safety studies in preparation for clinical trials evaluating NB-001 in Parkinson’s disease patients with biallelic loss-of-function mutations in the parkin gene, or parkin-PD.
Exevir Bio BV has been awarded a 2-year R&D grant of €1.6 million by Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) for preclinical research towards prophylactic and therapeutic solutions for dengue.
Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp.’s wholly owned subsidiary DMK Pharmaceuticals Corp. has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the development of a novel bifunctional small molecule for the treatment of alcohol use disorder.
TFF Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been awarded a Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue development of a novel, mucosal, multivariant influenza vaccine using the company’s thin film freezing (TFF) technology.
Aegis Life Inc. and its parent company Entos Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Entos) have entered into a grant agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the area of infectious disease.
Amplo Biotechnology Inc. has been awarded a fast track phase I/II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund further development of AMP-201, an AAV-ColQ gene therapy designed to address congenital myasthenic syndrome caused by collagen Q (ColQ) deficiency.
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