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Swiss fine chemicals specialist Clariant has hammered out a R&D pact with ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group (REG) Inc to combine technologies in order of producing biodiesel from cellulose
 

Pierre Meulien, IMI Executive Director and ex-Genomics Canada President

The Innovative Medicines Initiative II has earmarked €80m for pre-competetive research improving the pharmaceutical industry’s productivity.

Superbug Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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Novo Holdings has invested €18m from its €135m REPAIR Impact Fund into four companies.
 

Picture: Asceneuron

Asceneuron, a company in the development of orally bioavailable modulators of tau pathology for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, today announces the appointment of Peter Van Vlasselaer as Chair of the Board of Directors.

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According to a brand-new EU-wide survey, European plant researchers are concerned about the European Court of Justice‘s (CJEU) interpretation that targeted mutation methods aimed at improving crop yield and resistance to climate change yield GMOs. In an open letter, they call for political action and a modernisation of the EU Directive 2001/18/EC because a lack in tech-transfer would put Europe at the bottom of the pile in the upcoming bioeconomy.

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Boehringer Ingelheim has expanded its 2014 R&D collaboration with the BioMed X Innovation Center (Heidelberg, Germany) to find new treatment approaches for early intervention of psychiatric diseases.

Scanning electron microscope image showing macrophage adhesion to a monolayer of myofibroblasts. © M. Lodyga et al., Science Signaling (2018)

Canadian and Finnish researchers have demonstrated that long immune cell contact to lung tissue turns tissue repair into fibrosis. 

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French vaccine specialist Valneva SE has inked a supply contract with the US Department of Defense for IXIARO its Japanese encephalitis (JE). 

Susanne Dorn. Picture: Pharnext

Pharnext Announces the Appointments of Susanne Dorn as Chief Regulatory Officer and Serge Fitoussi as Chief Medical Officer.

The development of gasification technology takes place in VTT's Bioruukki piloting centre in Espoo, Finland. © VTT

Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd have presented a new gasification-based technique to turn forest industry byproducts into transport fuels and chemicals.