UNC researchers secure more than $1B in funding for third consecutive year
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Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill continues to grow, bringing in more than $1.2 billion in…
Life Sciences
RTP pharma firm could get $45M if therapy targeting hearing lose due to chemo wins FDA OK
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Triangle-based Fennec Pharmaceuticials has a lot riding on possible FDA approval of its new drug candidate – Pedmark. Up to $45 million,…
Durham startup Altis Biosystems offers grant for research incorporating its proprietaty tech
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A research award program that Altis Biosystems introduced last year to encourage the use of its drug-screening technology worked so well the…
Durham firm projects $4B in healthcare savings if blue light tech used to treat COVID-19
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A recent peer-reviewed manuscript published in the Journal of Medical Economics details a health economics cost savings model that Durham-based startup EmitBio says indicates…
Durham biotech startup Xilis raises $19M for precision cancer therapy, drug discovery
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Biotech startup Xilis has added another $19 million to its round of financing, pushing the total to $89 million from…
Duke awarded $27M federal grant to build structural models of HIV
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Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) received a federal grant totaling more than $27 million over five years to focus…
Inceptor Bio collaborating with U of Minnesota on new cancers therapies
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Morrisville-headquartered biotechnology startup Inceptor Bio has inked a deal with the University of Minnesota to create a new cell-based tool to fight…
Cary startup Atom Bioworks to join virtual BioTools Innovator accelerator program, compete for $250k
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Atom Bioworks, which has developed an AI software programmed with DNA to bind to virus and cancer cells so that…
Durham-based Duke spinout Deep Blue Medical raises $7M in Series A1 funding, will add products
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Deep Blue Medical Advances, developer of a novel hernia mesh known as T-Line®, has raised more than $7 million…