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August 5, 2021 | Kite and Appia Bio Announce Collaboration to Research and Develop Allogeneic Cell Therapies for Cancer
Kite, a Gilead Company (Nasdaq: GILD), and Appia Bio, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cancer patients, today announced a collaboration and license agreement to research...
July 12, 2021 | Incubators Nurture Local Bioscience Startups
Incubators have long been viewed as crucial to jump-start the development of tech, life science and other companies. However, up until 2004, Los Angeles County had only one bioscience incubator with lab space, a small facility in Chatsworth that recently went defunct....
May 11, 2021 | Appia Bio Launches With $52 Million Series A Financing and Establishes Scientific Advisory Board
Appia Bio, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cancer patients, today announced its launch from stealth backed by $52 million Series A financing led by 8VC. Other investors...
April 19, 2021 | Team led by UCLA professor wins $7.5 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
A group of UCLA engineers has become the first university team to win the grand prize in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE global competition. By mitigating the carbon footprint of concrete, the team’s invention could eventually be a major step in the global battle against...
UCLA alums court success as battery-tech entrepreneurs
Millibatt, Inc., has developed a second-generation battery and is gearing up for a campaign to engage corporate partners. Integral to the business’s growth have been startup-friendly resources at UCLA — including the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA’s Magnify...
April 9, 2021 | Nammi Therapeutics Unveils Two Novel Immunotherapies at AACR Conference
Nammi Therapeutics, Inc. (Nammi), an LA-based immunotherapy company, announces its first two cancer drug candidates, one from each of Nammi's distinctive drug development platforms, Nammisomes and Masked ImmunoCytokines (MIC). Nammi...
February 24, 2021 | Santa Monica’s MAX BioPharma Develops New Drug Candidate to Treat COVID-19
MAX BioPharma, a Santa Monica biopharmaceutical startup has developed a new drug candidate with antiviral activity against COVID-19. Santa Monica’s MAX BioPharma Develops New Drug Candidate to Treat COVID-19 Local startup develops news...
February 23, 2021 | For UCLA-based startup, new muscular dystrophy treatment is a personal mission
Courtney Young helped develop the gene therapy at the heart of a biotech startup, MyoGene Bio, when she was a doctoral student at UCLA from 2013 to 2018. But the kernel of the company’s endeavor is older still — and definitively personal. [xyz-ips...
Turnstone Biologics Acquires Novel Cell Therapy Platform
Turnstone Biologics Corp., a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of cancer immunotherapies, today announced that it has acquired California-based Myst Therapeutics, a privately held biotechnology company...
July 9, 2020 | Researchers receive Department of Energy grant to transform carbon dioxide into construction materials
The technology for producing CO2Concrete is being demonstrated at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center at the Dry Fork Station in Gillette, Wyoming.July 9, 2020 | Researchers receive Department of Energy grant to transform carbon dioxide into construction materials by...
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