Sept. 26, 2025 -- ADvantage Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced it has been awarded a $2.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This non-dilutive grant will further important research supporting AD04®, the company’s phase 2 Alzheimer’s candidate. “This award strongly validates our approach to Alzheimer’s

Sept. 24, 2025 -- Sparrow Pharmaceuticals, a targeted cardiometabolic therapeutics company, today announced the close of a $95 million Series B financing. The round was co-led by RA Capital Management and Forbion with participation from existing investors including OrbiMed, RiverVest, and US Venture Partners. In conjunction with the financing, Zach Scheiner from RA and Nanna Lüneborg from Forbion have joined Sparrow’s Board of Directors. The proceeds will support development of the company’s l

Sept. 23, 2025 -- SEED Therapeutics, Inc. (“SEED”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering rational molecular glue degraders for historically undruggable disease drivers, today announced the successful completion of its $30 million Series A-3 financing, alongside U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its lead program targeting RBM39. The company anticipates entering first-in-human clinical trials of ST-01156 in Q1 2026

Sept. 23, 2025 -- Trethera Corporation (“Trethera”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases, announced today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Trethera a $1.8 million grant for preclinical studies of TRE-515 as a Crohn’s disease treatment. Trethera’s lead drug candidate, TRE-515, is a once-daily oral therapy that inhibits deoxycytidine kinase (dCK), an enzyme critical to the deoxyribonucleoside salvage

Sept. 22, 2025 -- Yatiri Bio Inc. today announced it has received a grant from the Gates Foundation to launch a one-year project, Proteomics Interoperability, aimed at improving how large-scale proteomics data can be integrated and applied to global health challenges. Proteomics, the large-scale study of proteins, has emerged as a cornerstone of modern drug discovery, driving the search for new drug targets, early detection biomarkers, and measures of treatment efficacy. However, the field fac

Sept. 18, 2025 -- BioCardia®, Inc. [NASDAQ:BCDA] (“BioCardia” or the “Company”), a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, today announced the pricing of a public offering of an aggregate of 4,800,000 shares of its common stock and short-term warrants to purchase up to 4,800,000 shares of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $1.25 per share and accompanying short-term warrant. The short-term warrants will ha

Sept. 17, 2025 -- Oruka Therapeutics, Inc. (“Oruka” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ORKA), a biotechnology company developing novel biologics designed to set a new standard for the treatment of chronic skin diseases, including plaque psoriasis, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement for a private investment in public equity (“PIPE”) financing that is expected to result in gross proceeds of approximately $180 million to the Company, before placement agent fees and o

Brabant Development Agency (BOM) and angel investor join lead investor Libertatis Ergo Holding (LEH) in providing funding, with additional financial support from Brabant Startup Fund (BSF) Cantoni awarded validatioNN grant from Novo Nordisk to support disease-relevant translational research on NNMT, a novel target for cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity and its comorbidities September 16, 2025 - Cantoni Therapeutics B.V. (‘Cantoni’), a biotech company spun out from Leiden University, de

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Sept. 15, 2025 -- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) today announced it has received a $17 million contract modification from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to supply TEMBEXA® (brincidofovir) oral suspension. This follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent approval of the manufacturing scale-up of TEMB