Sanofi has a new head of development, which the company confirmed on Wednesday with a short tweet: "Dietmar Berger, MD, PhD, joins #Sanofi as Head of Development, overseeing our clinical portfolio across all therapeutic areas and helping us bring transformative new medicines to patients."

Tomas Blomquist has been appointed as the new CEO and President of Biotage AB.

A Belgian-British-Australian research team has created a safer version of a therapy that combats the aggressive form of a blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) while avoiding toxicity.

Cancer-focussed Nanobiotix SA has spun out Curadigm, which offers a platform to improve the bioavailability of nanomedicines by reducing liver and spleen toxicity and accumulation.

It was a good day for Novartis: A second drug with huge selling potential has been approved for the US market. The FDA gave the go ahead for breast cancer drug Piqray (alpelisib), the first and only treatment developed specifically for patients with a PIK3CA mutation in HR+/HER2-advanced breast cancer.

Dr. Martin Treder has informed Affimed that he intends to step down from his position as Chief Scientific Officer to pursue new opportunities.

The FDA has approved Novartis-subsidiary AveXis Inc’s spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene therapy Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xioi). The company wants to set the price tag at $2,125m per dose.

Rare functional sugars provide huge market opportunities. European Biotechnology spoke with Stefan Jennewein, Founder and CEO of Jennewein Biotechnologies, about the company’s strategy and its latest expansions to the Chinese market.

Novel diagnostic developer PBD Biotech announces the appointment of new CEO Mark Hammond to drive the company’s expansion.

At BioEquity 2019, Spanish Bioindustry Association ASEBIO has given a sneak peek into its 2018 Annual Report, that each year describes the news and trends from the Spanish Biotech Sector.