Friday, August 22, 2025

Life Sciences

Iktos
Iktos, a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence for new drug design, announces the appointment of Avirup Bose as Chief Business Officer. Avirup Bose holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Nebraska, USA, obtained in 1997. Prior to this, he received a Master of Science in Organic Chemistry from...
Akoya Biosciences
Akoya Biosciences, Inc.,, The Spatial Biology Company®, announced that the newly established Queensland Spatial Biology Centre (QSBC), located in Brisbane, Australia, is using the PhenoCycler-Fusion spatial biology platform as the core technology to revolutionize the way cancer and other debilitating diseases are diagnosed and treated. The PhenoCycler-Fusion platform facilitates the understanding of the...
Vivtex
Vivtex Corporation, a biotech company aiming to transform the development of oral biologic therapies for major diseases, and AI Proteins, Inc., a growing biotechnology company that utilizes computational de novo protein design to create novel therapeutic miniproteins, today announced they have entered a strategic R&D collaboration to develop novel, oral...
Qure.ai
In a pivotal stride toward advancing cancer care, Qure.ai, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for medical imaging, and Project Data Sphere®, a nonprofit initiative of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, have announced their partnership to augment tumor assessments using AI-enabled solutions for clinical trials and cancer care. The collaboration aims...
Tempus
Tempus, a leader in artificial intelligence and precision medicine, announced the addition of a novel MRD assay, xM, to its comprehensive testing solutions. The tumor-naïve plasma based test is available for research use only to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the blood of patients with early stage CRC...
Chemify 
Chemify and Prepaire™ Labs announced to expand their partnership with an additional program to tackle the ongoing Opioid crisis and develop a novel class of digitally discovered non-addictive Opioids as pain modulators, as well as drugs tackling Opioid addiction directly by combining Chemify's breakthrough programmable chemistry platform with Prepaire’s integrated novel...
Certis Oncology
Certis Oncology Solutions, a precision oncology and translational science company focused on combining AI-directed drug development with advanced functional testing, announced that it raised $10 million in a Series C funding round, bringing total raised to $42 million. The company also named John R. Tozzi Chairman of its Board of...
DermaSensor
DermaSensor Inc. announces FDA clearance for its real-time, non-invasive skin cancer evaluation system. For the first time, the 300,000 primary care physicians in the U.S. can now be equipped to provide quantitative, point-of-care testing for all types of skin cancer. Better identifying skin cancer in a primary care setting is...
Rad AI
Rad AI, a leading AI start-up for radiology reporting, announced a partnership with Google to use its cloud and AI innovations to help save radiologists' time, reduce burnout, and to ultimately improve the quality of patient care. Specifically, this alliance will involve Rad AI using Google Cloud's platform and...
Life Sciences Ontario
Life Sciences Ontario is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2024 LSO Awards, recognizing outstanding individuals and companies contributing to the success of Ontario’s life sciences sector. The awards will be presented during LSO’s Celebration of Success Awards Presentation on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 at the Liberty Grand,...