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Innovative Partnership: AstraZeneca and Quell Therapeutics Targeting Autoimmune Diseases with Engineered Treg Cell Therapies

(IN BRIEF) AstraZeneca and Quell Therapeutics have announced a collaboration to develop innovative treatments for Type 1 Diabetes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Quell’s T-regulatory cell engineering technology will be used to create potential curative therapies. AstraZeneca has the option to … Read the full press release

AstraZeneca’s global biologics research and development arm MedImmune completed its acquisition of US-based Amplimmune for $225M plus $275M based on predetermined milestones

London, United Kingdom, 10-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — AstraZeneca today announced that on 4 October MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, completed its acquisition of Amplimmune, a privately-held, US-based biologics company focused on developing novel therapeutics in cancer immunology. As previously announced, … Read the full press release

LMU Dr. Klaus Dornmair and Prof. Jörg Prinz report for novel technique to fight tumors and to treat autoimmune diseases

16-8-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Immunologists at LMU have come up with a new technique that can be used both to fight tumors and to treat autoimmune diseases. A new grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research will enable the … Read the full press release