South San Francisco – October 19, 2026 -- ACROBiosystems unveiled a 4-day sequence-to-affinity screening service, CHO-DirectTM, at its ACRO Innovation Day x AI on October 13, 2026, targeting the experimental validation bottleneck in AI-driven biologics discovery. The service closes the wet-lab loop in as few as 7 days when combined with developability and characterization work.

Bad Homburg, Germany – October 19, 2026 -- Fresenius Medical Care reports that 74% of more than 10,000 high-volume hemodiafiltration (HvHDF) treatments delivered on its 5008X CAREsystem in the United States reached the target convective dose of 23 liters or greater. The company will present the data at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2026, held October 21-25 in Denver, Colorado.

Chicago – October 19, 2026 -- RLDatix has launched RLD360 Credentialing, a hybrid offering that pairs software with built-in automation and NCQA-certified verification services, aiming to shorten provider credentialing at a time when the typical physician start date falls 229 days after a position is posted.

Toronto – October 19, 2026 -- Vector Science and Therapeutics Corp. (TSXV: PAIN) has appointed Angus Jackson, a former investment banker at Outcome Capital, as Managing Director of Corporate Development. He will lead the company's inorganic growth initiatives, including acquisitions, investments and strategic partnerships.

Boston – October 19, 2026 -- Servier has dosed the first patients in EMBLEM-1, the pivotal Phase 2 cohort of its Phase 1/2 study of Emiltatug Ledadotin (Emi-Le) in aggressive adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC), a cancer with no FDA-approved systemic treatment.

Emi-Le is an investigational antibody drug conjugate (ADC) directed against B7-H4. The cohort is enrolling under trial identifier NCT05377996.

Secaucus – October 19, 2026 -- A broader set of lab criteria identified primary aldosteronism (PA) in 26.2% of 60,449 U.S. patients, twice the 13.0% flagged under the Endocrine Society's 2025 guidelines, according to a Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) study published in the journal Hypertension.

San Diego – October 19, 2026 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee (CTGTAC) will meet on July 29, 2026, to review Capricor Therapeutics' Biologics License Application (BLA) for Deramiocel, an investigational cell therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), less than four weeks before the agency's August 22, 2026 PDUFA target action date.

San Diego – October 19, 2026 -- Capricor Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CAPR) said The Lancet has published results from its Phase 3 HOPE-3 trial, in which Deramiocel slowed upper limb function decline by 54 percent versus placebo in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (PUL 2.0, p=0.03).

The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled 106 participants and met its primary endpoint. Capricor also reports a clinically meaningful cardiac benefit. The results rest on the company's prespecified Statistical Analysis Plan version 3.0 (SAP 3.0).

SAN DIEGO – October 19, 2026 -- The FDA's Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee voted 9-3, with no abstentions, that available evidence did not support the effectiveness of Capricor Therapeutics' Deramiocel for cardiomyopathy in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), leaving the company's PDUFA target action date of August 22, 2026 as the next decision point.

San Diego – October 19, 2026 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pushed the decision date for Capricor Therapeutics' Deramiocel Biologics License Application by three months, from August 22, 2026 to November 22, 2026, after classifying the company's latest data submission as a major amendment.

Deramiocel is an investigational cell therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Capricor (NASDAQ: CAPR) disclosed the extension of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date on the day of release.