Researchers at University of Oxford have been awarded funding by Cancer Research UK to develop a vaccine to prevent ovarian cancer. The team will receive up to £600,000 (US$784,000) for the study over the next 3 years to support lab research on Ovarianvax.

Epivario Inc. has been awarded a small business innovation research (SBIR) grant of $275,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to advance research toward the development of a novel epigenetic regulator as a treatment for opioid use disorder.

Mabylon AG has been awarded three grants totaling more than CHF1.3 million (US$1.5 million) from Innosuisse Swiss Innovation Agency, Target ALS and the ALS Association.

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) at the NIH has awarded Resvita Bio a $2.03 million phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to advance RVB-003, a novel treatment for Netherton syndrome.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a pandemic preparedness research network to conduct research on high-priority pathogens most likely to threaten human health with the goal of developing effective vaccines and monoclonal antibodies.

Stealth Biotherapeutics Inc. has been awarded the Kyle Bryant Translational Research Award from the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) to evaluate mitochondria-targeted molecule SBT-589 in Friedreich’s ataxia (FA).

Integrated Nanotherapeutics Inc. has received an award from Breakthrough T1D (formerly Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Ltd. [JDRF]) to advance the company’s technology to induce immune tolerance in type 1 diabetes.

NRG Therapeutics Ltd. has been awarded a grant from Target ALS Foundation to support its discovery program for a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Acurastem Inc. has secured $4 million in grant funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to facilitate the development of its UNC13A program toward clinical trials for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).