The HBA's ACE Awards spotlight bold, people-first programs that are transforming how the industry develops, engages, and empowers its workforce.

FAIRFIELD, N.J., Aug. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) today announced the recipients of its 2025 Advancement, Commitment, and Engagement (ACE) Awards, honoring high-impact programs that are redefining workforce development across the healthcare industry. The ACE Awards recognize standout programs with bold strategies that prioritize people, scale globally, deliver measurable business and social outcomes, and honor the future of leadership and innovation in healthcare. This year's honorees include:

The agreement is a critical step in ensuring adult patients living with NMOSD and gMG have public access to Ultomiris

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Aug. 7, 2025 /CNW/ - Alexion Pharma Canada Corp., AstraZeneca's Rare Disease group, has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) for Ultomiris (ravulizumab) for the treatment of adult patients with anti-aquaporin 4 (AQP4) antibody-positive (Ab+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and adult patients with anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody-positive (Ab+) generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG). With the agreement in place with the pCPA, individual provinces and territories may now initiate the process to list Ultomiris on their formularies, the timing of which will vary by province and territory. 

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) ("Danaher"), a global science and technology innovator, announced today the launch of a partnership with AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) to develop and commercialize novel diagnostic tools and tests intended to help clinicians better determine which patients would most benefit from precision medicine treatments.

Equity Insider News CommentaryIssued on behalf of Avant Technologies Inc.

VANCOUVER, BC, May 27, 2025 /CNW/ -- Equity Insider News Commentary – Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most promising frontiers in healthcare innovation. Ark Invest's Cathie Wood recently pointed to breakthrough research from Mass General Brigham—where AI models identified cancer survival outcomes using facial photographs—as evidence that healthcare may become AI's "most profound application." As adoption moves from theory to practice, several tech and biotech players are already making real-world strides. Recent developments have come from Avant Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI), Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR), AstraZeneca PLC (NASDAQ: AZN), and Relay Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLAY).

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, March 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IgniteData has announced a collaboration with AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) to launch its Archer tool for clinical data integration in an ongoing Phase 3 study sponsored by AstraZeneca. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in IgniteData's aim of transforming clinical trials through automation and digital innovation.

700 new scientific and high-skilled jobs to be created in Greater Toronto Area, investing to execute more than 210 AstraZeneca global clinical studies

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Jan. 23, 2025 /CNW/ - AstraZeneca, a global pharmaceutical company focused on developing life changing medicines, today announced a C$820 million (US$570m) investment in Canada, creating more than 700 high-skilled jobs, across all areas of the business. The investment will support the move to a larger, state-of-the-art office facility in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario.

The agreement is a critical step in ensuring paediatric patients living with NF1 PN have public access to Koselugo, the only approved therapy in Canada for this rare disease

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Dec. 18, 2024 /CNW/ - Alexion Pharma Canada Corp., AstraZeneca's Rare Disease group, has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) for Koselugo for the treatment of paediatric patients aged two years and above with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who have symptomatic, inoperable plexiform neurofibromas (PN). With the agreement in place with the pCPA, individual provinces and territories may now initiate the process to list Koselugo on their formularies, the timing of which will vary by province and territory. Following the agreement, the Province of Quebec was the first to list Koselugo and provide public reimbursement of the only approved therapy for eligible children living with NF1 PN.

ALPHA Phase III trial showed first-in-class, oral, Factor D inhibitor as add-on to Ultomiris or Soliris improved hemoglobin levels and reduced anemia and fatigue

MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 23, 2024 /CNW/ - Voydeya (danicopan tablets) has been approved in Canada as an add-on to ravulizumab or eculizumab for the treatment of adult patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) who have residual hemolytic anemia due to extravascular hemolysis (EVH).1 Voydeya is a first-in-class, oral, Factor D inhibitor developed as an add-on to standard-of-care Ultomiris (ravulizumab) or Soliris (eculizumab) to address the needs of the approximately 10-20% of patients with PNH who experience clinically significant extravascular hemolysis (EVH) while treated with a C5 inhibitor.2,3

CAR031 study at 9.03-mo median follow up achieves disease control rate (DCR) of 91.3% and objective response rate (ORR) of 56.5% for patients across all dose levels (DLs) and ORR of 75.0% at DL4

ROCKVILLE, Md., June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AbelZeta Pharma, Inc. ("AbelZeta" or the "Company"), a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative and proprietary cell-based therapeutic products, today announced preliminary safety and efficacy results from its first time in human investigator-initiated trial (IIT) of C-CAR031 in connection with the Company's oral presentation at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. The presentation shared data indicating a manageable safety profile and encouraging anti-tumor activity of C-CAR031 in patients with heavily pretreated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (1-6 lines of prior therapy). C-CAR031 is based on a novel GPC3-targeting CAR-T designed by AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) and is manufactured by AbelZeta. C-CAR031 is being co-developed in China by AbelZeta and AstraZeneca.

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AbelZeta Pharma, Inc. ("AbelZeta" or the "Company"), a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative and proprietary cell-based therapeutic products, today announced the acceptance of an abstract related to the clinical study of C-CAR031, an autologous, armored GPC3-targeting chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell (CAR-T) therapy, in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) for oral presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, taking place in Chicago May 31 to June 4, 2024. C-CAR031 is based on a novel GPC3-targeting CAR-T designed by AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) using their transforming growth factor-beta receptor II (TGFβRII) dominant negative armoring discovery platform and is manufactured by AbelZeta in China. C-CAR031 is being developed in China under a co-development agreement between AbelZeta and AstraZeneca.1