clinical trial

Fort Worth’s AyuVis Receives $2.1M NIH Grant for Clinical Trial of New-Gen Immunotherapies

by | May 17, 2023
The grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial of a new generation of immunotherapies. This is the fourth NIH grant AyuVis has received since its founding in 2014, doubling total non-dilutive funding to $4.2 million. Co-Founder and CEO Dr. Suchismita Acharya calls the move to a human trial "a huge milestone for AyuVis."
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Fort Worth’s AyuVis Is One Step Closer to Protecting Pre-Term Babies from a Leading Cause of Death
by | Mar 31, 2022
Fort Worth-based AyuVis just received its second patent in three months for its immunotherapy treatments that protect pre-term babies from a debilitating chronic lung disease that affects many pre-term infants on ventilators.

The startup's lead drug candidate—AVR-48—is scheduled for clinical trials this summer.
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Fort Worth Biotech Eyevensys Completes $30M Series B Funding Round
by | Jan 8, 2020
The startup plans to use the funding to continue developing its technology and to position it as an innovator in ophthalmology. Eyevensys’ tech is a gene therapy platform to deliver ocular drugs via an electrotransfection system to the ciliary muscle of the eye.
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Fort Worth Biopharma Actuate Therapeutics Raises $21.7M in Series B Funding
by | May 20, 2019
The company said it will use the funding to expand its ongoing Phase 1 / 2 clinical trial and fund development programs.
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