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Africa’s EVA Pharma, France’s DNA Script, and Belgium’s Quantoom Biosciences have signed a Memorandum of Understanding today, on the sidelines of the 2nd Vaccine and Other Health Products Manufacturing Forum for African Union Member States, organized by Africa CDC and hosted by the Egyptian United Procurement Authority (UPA) in Cairo. This collaboration aims to develop the first ever digital-to-biologics, end-to-end mRNA production platform, focusing on nucleic acid-based vaccines and therapeutics, including mRNA and saRNA vaccines for both human and animal health.

DNA Script, a leader in enzymatic DNA synthesis, today announced the appointment of Marc Montserrat as its new Chief Executive Officer. In addition, founding CEO Thomas Ybert, PhD, has transitioned to a new Chief Scientific Officer role, where he will continue to lead the company’s groundbreaking research and innovation efforts.

DNA Script, the worldwide leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) technology, today announced the broad commercial availability of the fully automated SYNTAX™ DNA printing platform, which consists of the benchtop STX-200 system, latest biochemistry advancements, robust reagent kits, and intuitive software enhancements. The company will unveil the new platform during the upcoming global SynBioBeta 2023 Conference.

DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, has signed distribution agreements in the Middle East with Gulf Scientific Corporation (Bahrain, KSA, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE) and Eisenberg Ltd. (Israel) to expand its worldwide footprint of sales, service and support. New distribution partner Kiko Tech, Ltd. (Japan) extends the company’s existing channel network in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, won the Grand Prize Trophy at the 2022 Future Unicorns Awards, whose ceremony took place on September 15, 2022, at the Bourrienne Hotel (Paris). Of the 1400 French companies initially identified for consideration, a jury narrowed them down to 250 that met the criteria, from which DNA Script was selected as the Grand Prize winner.

DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, has announced the first successful qPCR assays using primers and probes synthesized by a customer via enzymatic synthesis using the company’s SYNTAX System DNA printer. This success was achieved as part of a contract with the French Defense Innovation Agency, in liaison with the French Armament General Directorate (DGA), first announced in January 2021.

Today at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Conference, DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, announced the launch of the industry’s first solution to enable same-day turnaround for custom q/dPCR assays with a new generation of kits for the SYNTAX System to print both primers and probes in hours. This announcement comes two days ahead of their AGBT presentation on Wed, June 8, at 2:55pm EDT, where their founders will review recent data showcasing the new applications enabled for the SYNTAX System.

DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, has added life sciences veteran Chris Barbazette as Chief Commercial Officer to its leadership team. In his new position, Barbazette will be responsible for leading DNA Script’s marketing, sales, and support teams and will play a pivotal role in building upon the company’s market position to drive continued commercial growth, as well as investor and customer value.

DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, announced the launch of a new program for customers of their SYNTAX System, in which organizations receive early access to the latest advancements of their EDS technology. Dubbed the DNA Scriptors Early Access Program, its members already include the London Biofoundry and the BASE facility at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia.

DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, has reached agreements with several leading biotechnology distribution companies throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including Cold Spring Biotech Corp. (China, Taiwan and Hong Kong), Research Instruments Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), Premas Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. (India) and Bio-Medical Science Co. Ltd. (South Korea). These partnerships expand DNA Script’s worldwide footprint and provide sales and support for the SYNTAX DNA printing system in labs throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

DNA Script, a leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) and DNA on demand, has inked a multi-million dollar, multi-year contract with Wellcome Leap to accelerate RNA products, including mRNA vaccines, and advance RNA therapies. Under Wellcome Leap’s RNA Response + Readiness (R3) program, DNA Script will work to develop a fully automated and deployable system to synthesize DNA templates for RNA production with a short turnaround time.

DNA Script, a leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for on-demand DNA printing, today announced that its CEO and co-founder Thomas Ybert, Ph.D., will present on the Company’s growth and vision at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, being held virtually. Ybert’s session will take place on Monday, January 10, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST.

DNA Script, a pioneer in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for on-demand DNA printing, today announced the completion of its Series C financing, raising $200 million of new capital. With this latest financing, DNA Script has raised $315 million since the company was founded in 2014.

DNA Script, a leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS), announced the CE marking of its SYNTAX System, the first EDS-powered benchtop DNA printer. With this marking, the SYNTAX System meets EU safety, health and environmental protection guidelines, and DNA Script will begin commercial sales of the SYNTAX System in European countries.

DNA Script, a leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS), announced that Blanche Savary de Beauregard has joined the company as General Counsel. In her new position, Savary de Beauregard will manage DNA Script’s legal needs, including investor relations, operations, public affairs, and regulatory filings.

DNA Script, a leader in benchtop enzymatic DNA synthesis, today announced that the company has received a $2.2 million grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the ongoing development of next generation printers to enzymatically print synthetic DNA and RNA as a follow-on to their recently launched SYNTAX System. DNA Script aims to develop a benchtop instrument using Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) to enable — for the first time — in-house synthesis of high-quality long oligos in a high-multiplex format in less than a day.

DNA Script, a pioneer in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) and DNA printing on demand, today announced it has raised $165 million in a Series C financing led by Coatue Management and Catalio Capital Management, whose representatives have joined as Board observers. New investors Fidelity Management and Research, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, Arrowmark Partners, Farallon Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures joined the round. Existing investors Casdin Capital, LSP, Illumina Ventures, Bpifrance Large Venture Fund, Danaher Life Sciences, Agilent Technologies, M Ventures, Kurma Partners and Alexandria Venture Investments also participated in the round, bringing the total amount raised to date by the company to $280 million. The new funds will be used to accelerate expansion and commercialization of the company’s revolutionary SYNTAX Platform and broaden the portfolio of products powered by EDS.

DNA Script, a leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS), today announced the appointment of Don Kania, Ph.D. as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Catherine Moukheibir as Audit Chair and Bonnie Anderson as independent new members of the Board. With decades of life sciences experience among them, they will play a key role in steering the company’s strategy to deploy its SYNTAX Platform and the EDS technology.

Genome Project-write (GP-write) welcomes DNA Script as one of the newest members of its Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). Together with DNA Script and other members, the IAB aims to develop a virtual foundry and incubator to streamline genome-writing, accelerate the typical design-build-test workflow and advance deep algorithmic learning to reduce workflow costs and timing. The first version of GP-write’s computer-aided design (CAD) tool for whole genome design will be unveiled at the virtual GP-write 5.0 conference, October 21-22.