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Continuity Biosciences Acquires Focal Medical to Advance Targeted Drug Delivery for Pancreatic Cancer

  BRADENTON, Fla., June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuity Biosciences, LLC, a developer of advanced drug delivery technologies, announced today the acquisition of Focal Medical, Inc., a North Carolina-based biopharmaceutical company pioneering site-specific chemotherapy using iontophoresis. The acquisition represents a key step in Continuity's…

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Focal Medical Provides Business Update

Ness Bermingham, Ph.D. Khosla Ventures partner and Intellia Therapeutics founder, joins Board.  Advance of IOP cisplatin for locally recurrent oral cavity cancer into formal development. Cary, North Carolina, January 30, 2024 — Focal Medical, Inc., (“Focal”) a Khosla Ventures backed…

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PRESS RELEASE: Focal Medical Receives FDA Clearance to Initiate Phase 1b Clinical Trial of ACT-IOP-003, a Targeted Therapeutic Product in Development for Pancreatic Cancer

ACT-IOP-003 is an implantable iontophoretic product designed to safely achieve high concentration of gemcitabine in the pancreas, via non-circulatory pathways and with little to no systemic drug exposure or associated toxicity. Demonstrated dramatic results in an orthotopic patient-derived xenograft murine…

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Focal Medical Successfully Completes Development of a Laparoscopic Surgical Implantation Technique for Targeted Therapeutic System

Developed a laparoscopic surgical technique to enable the minimally invasive implantation of ACT-IOP-003 device onto the pancreas. ACT-IOP-003, Focal Medical’s targeted therapeutic product, is designed to safely achieve a high concentration of chemotherapeutic in the target organ, via non-circulatory pathways,…

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