Gene therapy supplier MIP Discovery closes £7M Series A financing
The £7m Series A financing of British gene therapy vector specialist MIP Discovery Ltd was led by lMercia Ventures.Existing investor Calculus Capital...
Cambridge university spin-out HutanBio Ltd bags £2.25m seed financing
HutanBio, a Malaysian spin-out from scientists at Cambridge University, UK, has bagged a first tranche of seed investment from London-based Clean...
Roche opens €90m gene therapy development centre
Roche sees the €90m investment as a harbinger of the German government's "National Strategy for Gene and Cell Therapies", which has been...
Obesity: Roche with first clinical data after US$2.7bn deal
Following the acquisition of Carmot Therapeutics in December 2023 for US$2.7bn biobucks (US$400m upfront), Roche has now announced the results of...
Novo Nordisk to acquire Cardior Pharmaceuticals
The take-over agreement includes Cardior’s lead compound CDR132L, currently in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of heart failure....
German companies to revolutionise lab plastics market
Plastic consumables used in pharmaceutical and biotechnological research must meet high quality standards. A German start-up has now launched the...
Ipsen puts US$1.8bn in pipeline expansion in movement disorders
Under the agreement, Skyhawk will provide its discovery platform for RNA-targeting small molecules across several therapeutic areas, including rare...