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Wines Most Inspiring People 2025: Marian Leitner-Waldman — Designing Wine for the Modern Consumer

The wine industry has been grappling with attracting younger generations for more than a decade. Marian Leitner-Waldman, co-founder and CEO of Archer Roose Wines, brought a fresh outsider’s perspective to this issue and developed an innovative approach to making wine a part of these consumers’ everyday lives. Read more >>
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Neuraly and Enigma Biomedical USA announce a Research License and Commercialization Option Agreement for PET Imaging Biomarker, PMI04

On January 16, 2025, Neuraly Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of D&D Pharmatech Inc., and Enigma Biomedical USA, Inc., announced the signing of a research license and commercialization option agreement for PMI04, a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) imaging biomarker of neuroinflammation developed by Neuraly. Under the agreement, Enigma acquires an exclusive research license for PMI04, as well as the option to negotiate commercialization rights based on the research results. PMI04 is a PET imaging biomarker that selectively binds to CSF-1R...
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Annual Study of Global Media Agencies Predicts Big Shifts in How Advertisers Use YouTube in 2025

Pixability, a leader in AI-driven contextual targeting, brand suitability and performance advertising on YouTube and CTV, today revealed the results of a major survey of U.S. & UK Media Agency executives, buyers and planners. The study asked agency leaders about current video advertising behaviors and how they foresee YouTube and CTV budgets and strategies shifting in 2025. “YouTube continues to increase in importance to advertisers, emerging not only as a leader in CTV, but also now as a leader in...
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Innovative freight and transit plan proposed for Port of Oakland

In response to the Port of Oakland Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for use of the Charles P. Howard Property, the global real estate and investment brokerage firm Colliers is spearheading a proposal and negotiations for a joint collaboration between CyberTran International, EarthGrid PBC, UC Berkeley Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), the County of Alameda, and the Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence (MANEX) and has submitted a visionary proposal to move freight underground from the Howard Property to an In-Land Port...
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When ‘time is brain’

...Now Lechleiter and his teammates at Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals — to which UT Health San Antonio has given exclusive licensing rights to develop the drug — are preparing for phase 2 clinical trials. These trials will focus on evaluating the effectiveness of AST-004 in reducing brain tissue loss in patients with large occlusion strokes, a severe type of stroke where blood clots cause substantial brain damage. Read more >>
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🍾 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 🍾 BOSTON HARBOR ANGELS ENTERS ITS 3RD DECADE OF ANGEL INVESTING

A happy new year to all founders, angels, and everyone else that plays a part in this ecosystem. Boston Harbor Angels wishes them a successful 2025 and upcoming decade! Boston Harbor Angels now enters its 3rd decade of angel investing, helping support and fund great founders, entrepreneurs, and companies. Founded in 2004, Boston Harbor Angels has created an interconnected community and ecosystem of investors, founders and mentors. Boston Harbor Angels is dedicated to helping founders weather the tumultuous battle that...
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Manufacturing startup tops growth charts, secures major funding

Reflecting back on 2024 for a moment, one Buffalo startup in particular had quite a year. That's why Buffalo Business First put CleanFiber among its 10 honored companies of the year in 2024. This local business is getting national recognition and securing major funding — from right here in Western New York. To say 2024 has been a banner year for Blasdell startup CleanFiber would be an understatement. CleanFiber was the only local company to break into the top 50...
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Corbus Pharmaceuticals Announces that Clinical Data for CRB-701 from Western Dose Escalation Study to be Presented at ASCO GU 2025

Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., today announced data from its first-in-human dose escalation clinical study conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom (“Western study”) of CRB-701 (SYS6002) will be presented at the 2025American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU), to be held in San Francisco, CA February 13–15, 2025. The poster is titled Phase 1 Dose-Escalation Study of Next-Generation Nectin-4 Targeting Antibody-Drug Conjugate CRB-701 (SYS6002) in US And UK Patients with Urothelial Cancer and other Solid...
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EXCLUSIVE: 2025 vision tech trends

Roland Mattern, Director of Sales at eSight by Gentex Corporation, discusses some of the key vision technology trends that will shape 2025 and give people greater independence and inclusivity across various aspects of life. Modern technology continues to change every aspect of human life and vision technology is no different. More than two million people in the UK have some degree of visual impairment or sight loss and nearly half of these people have a long-term, irreversible eye health condition....
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LPOXY Therapeutics, Inc. Acquires Key Assets from Xeno Biosciences Inc. to Advance C. difficile Prevention Therapy

LPOXY Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative therapies for infectious disease prevention, announced today that it has signed a term sheet to acquire selected assets from Xeno Biosciences Inc. The assets include regulatory filings, correspondence, and documentation from FDA and global regulatory interactions, as well as comprehensive CMC data. LPOXY will benefit from ownership of data generated in Xeno's Phase I and Ib clinical trials, which validates the safety of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient shared by Xeno's...
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