1ST Biotherapeutics and SK Biopharmaceuticals Announce Exclusive Global License Agreement for Parkinson’s Disease Candidate ‘1ST-104’
— Deal valued at up to $314.8 million, including milestones, with a separate $2.2 million strategic equity investment
— Collaboration leverages 1STBIO’s Type 2 LRRK2/c-Abl dual inhibitor to advance next-generation Parkinson’s treatment
1ST Biotherapeutics, Inc. (“1STBIO”) and SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (“SKBP”) today announced that they have entered into an exclusive global licensing agreement and strategic equity investment (SI) partnership to advance 1ST-104, a novel drug candidate for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Omnix Medical Launches New Horizon Europe PEPTAMR Infectious Disease Consortium
- EUR ~8M grant supports the late-stage clinical development of Omnix’s antimicrobial OMN6
- Leading European partners join forces to advance OMN6 for the treatment of life-threatening hospital-acquired infections
JERUSALEM, Israel, July 13, 2026 — Omnix Medical, a biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation anti-infectives for the treatment of life-threatening infections, today announced the launch of the PEPTAMR consortium, bringing together leading European clinical, scientific, and academic partners to accelerate the late-stage clinical development of OMN6, its lead antimicrobial peptide targeting resistant hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), including carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), a WHO critical-priority pathogen associated with mortality rates of up to 60% and severely limited treatment options. Read more…
TolerogenixX Has Received EMA Orphan Drug Designation for MIC-Lx, Strengthening its Regulatory Pathway in Kidney Transplantation
- Supporting the development of its proprietary MIC-Lx Modified Immune Cells technology as a novel approach to reduce lifelong systemic immunosuppression and improve long-term outcomes for transplant recipients
- Strengthening MIC-Lxâs regulatory and commercial positioning in Europe
TolerogenixX, a German clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing personalized cell therapies inducing antigen-specific immune tolerance, today announced that the European Commission has granted MIC-Lx, the Company’s lead product candidate, Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for living-donor kidney transplantation following a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP). Read more…
