Beyondbiotech August episode 11, Rounding up news of the week and interviewing interesting companies - Yes also Ilya Pharma - please hear our CEO Evelina Vågesjö and CFO Oskar Lund give an update and share some details around the latests patents approved - at 29:50 to 43:00.
Cell and gene therapies are taking off in a big way in Europe. As the buzz grows, the Swedish firm Ilya Pharma has raised €8.5M to lay down the foundations of bacterial gene therapies for enterocolitis and diabetic ulcers.
Therapeutic concepts, work and science being recognised for significant contributions in the advanced therapy pipeline in the MedicineMakers PowerList 2021.
The team also published an expert opinion on the mechanism of actions explored and progress of pipeline in 2019 in Öhnstedt et al., Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery 2019;14(5):485-497.
The scientific findings of macrophages regulating blood flow in injured tissue and how CXCL12 is therapeutically facilitating this mechanism of action accelerating healing is highlighted by Nature Cardiology Reviews. Original article: Vågesjö, E. et al. Perivascular macrophages regulate blood flow following tissue damage. Circ. Res. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.318380 (2021)