Biogen to Invest $200M to Expand RTP Facility to Produce Gene Therapies Date Published: March 4, 2021 By NC Biotech North Carolina’s gene and cell therapy magnet has attracted an investment from one of the state’s original…
California biotech firm begins hiring for big RTP operation, names site exec Date Published: March 2, 2021 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – GRAIL, the California-based biotech firm targeting cancer, is moving ahead quickly with plans to open a…
Inside potential $1B deal for Ribometrix: A look at startup’s science, history Date Published: January 13, 2021 Ribometrix, a Durham company specializing in RNA-based therapeutics, has formed a drug discovery and development collaboration with Genentech that could…
Life science data, imaging business with 2,300 employees launches, has an HQ in Durham Date Published: January 11, 2021 DURHAM – Calyx, a spinoff of life science firm Parexel, launches today with 2,300 employees and a dual headquarters, one…
Making a potential $360M deal: Chimerix buys firm focusing on emerging cancer therapy Date Published: January 8, 2021 DURHAM – Chimerix (Nasdaq: CMRX) is buying a privately held biotech company that is focusing on emerging therapies to combat…
Aiming to help keep women in workforce, Durham female exec’s startup lands investors Date Published: January 6, 2021 DURHAM – In the wake of the pandemic, a women-led startup aimed at keeping women in the workforce is taking…
Jobs paying average of $123,000 are coming to Durham – here’s the deal Date Published: November 24, 2020 DURHAM – Clorox is bringing more jobs – and they are high paying ones – to Durham. This time Clorox…
‘Gigafactory’ campus for vaccine production, hundreds of jobs coming to Triangle Date Published: November 19, 2020 DURHAM – A 1 million-square-foot campus, including a massive “gigafactory” to manufacture vaccine and therapeutic prefilled plastic injectors in the…
Duke biomedical engineers discover bacterial DNA’s recipe for success Date Published: November 12, 2020 DURHAM – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new way of modeling how potentially beneficial packages of DNA…