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Top Stories By Amirah Al Idrus Can ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used traditionally in South America, be used to treat depression and other mental illnesses? Biotech builder ATAI Life Sciences is setting up a subsidiary to find out. Viridia Life Sciences is developing new formulations of the brew’s active ingredient, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. read more By Nick Paul Taylor T3 Pharmaceuticals has raised CHF 25 million ($27 million) to take its lead bacterial cancer therapy into the clinic. Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund co-led the round with the support of other existing investors. read more By Patheon, by Thermo Fisher Scientific Ensuring cohesion between drug substance chemists & drug product formulators is critical to manage risks & maximize rewards of transforming less soluble & bioavailable molecules into effective drugs. read more By Amirah Al Idrus GW Pharma’s Epidiolex made history in 2018 when the cannabis-based treatment scored an FDA nod for Dravet syndrome, a genetic disorder marked by intractable seizures. But children with Dravet face much more than just seizures. Enter Encoded Therapeutics, which just raised $135 million to advance a precision gene therapy that could treat the disease in its totality. read more By Nick Paul Taylor Vesigen Therapeutics has raised $28.5 million from groups including Bayer. The series A round sets the Harvard University spinout up to build on technology that could redefine how RNAi, mRNA and CRISPR/Cas9 are delivered. read more By Conor Hale The demand for widespread COVID-19 diagnostics has strained every aspect of the enterprise, including the production of swabs, reagents and sterile containers. Now, the FDA has loosened its oversight of viral transport media, the liquid solution that keeps samples viable as they wait to be tested, in a move the agency says will help boost waning supplies. read more By Kyle Blankenship The Trump administration's Warp Speed initiative has placed its biggest bet yet on an accelerated COVID-19 vaccine—and Pfizer and BioNTech are the lucky recipients. The U.S. will pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses, pending an approval, and has an option on another 500 million after that. read more |  | Capture more value with your biotech equity Strategic planning for your early stage equity can result in a tax savings of up to $10 million as Qualified Small Business Stock. Harness works with serial scientific co-founders from top academic institutions and high growth company executives to find specialized financial advisors to help them capture more equity value. Learn more. |
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