Backstory: A look at RTP’s growing gene therapy hub as startup brings 200+ $102,000 jobs to Durham Date Published: August 12, 2020 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – A young Boston-area gene therapy company, Beam Therapeutics, has joined a cluster of gene and cell…
Beam Therapeutics to build $83M manufacturing facility in RTP, create hundreds of jobs Date Published: August 12, 2020 RALEIGH — Beam Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotechnology company developing precision medicines through DNA base editing, plans to build a $83…
Gene-editing company to add 200 jobs in Durham after getting North Carolina incentives Date Published: August 11, 2020 Durham has landed another gene-therapy jobs expansion after the state offered incentives to the biotechnology company Beam Therapeutics. Beam, based…
New RTP startup backed by Eshelman aims at cancer treatment Date Published: August 6, 2020 With financial backing from one of North Carolina’s most influential venture capitalists, a new company based in Research Triangle Park…
Kriya Therapeutics announces the establishment of its internal manufacturing facility for process development and scalable cGMP production of gene therapies for prevalent serious diseases Date Published: August 6, 2020 51,350 square foot operational manufacturing facility based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina is designed to have its own fully …
Durham biotech uses new funding to acquire gene therapy for eye disease Date Published: July 29, 2020 A Hatteras-backed, early-stage life science company has used its new funding to acquire the exclusive rights to gene therapy platform…
RTP gene editing startup Locus Biosciences lands $12.5M from 31 investors Date Published: July 15, 2020 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — Locus Biosciences, which is developing advanced antibacterial products with gene editing technology, has raised roughly $12.5…
Uplizna launch is a ‘testament’ to NC’s prowess in drug R&D Date Published: July 1, 2020 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – When singer songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote “…you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone,” she…
In Praise of Lesser-Sung Life Sciences Clusters Date Published: June 8, 2020 The Research Triangle Region is an emerging gene therapy hub, and being one of the strongest life science hubs in…