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Krakow-based Selvita S.A. has announced it will spin out its oncology unit this year resulting in two public companies, a CRO and a cancer therapeutics developer.
The CHF22.5m Series A financing round of the Swiss specialist for autoimmune diseases was led by Sofinnova Partners and New Enterprise Associates together with contributions of existing investors.
French liver disorder specialist Genfit SA has announced the pricing of its Nasdaq IPO of ADS and European private placement.
US-Austrian arenavirus-based cancer and infectious diseases specialist Hookipa has has filed a prospectus for an US$86M Nasdaq IPO.
Neophore Limited, a cancer immuno-oncology company, today announces the appointment of Dr John Haurum as Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
The EU’s Big Pharma companies have sharply criticised the European Parliament’s Legal Committee JURI backing of an amended proposal of the European Commission (EC) to introduce a supplementary protection certificates (SPC) manufacturing waiver. Under the waiver, EU-based biosimilar and generics makers would be allowed to export copycat drugs during the SPC period that adds five years of additional IP protection to the 20 years of patent duration.
A research team from Germany and Mexico has successfully targeted uveal melanoma (UM), the most common type of eye cancer.
Pfizer Inc has paid €45m upfront to French gene therapy specalist Vivet Therapeutics in a licence option deal for Vivet’s preclinical Wilson disease candidate VTX-801.
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