The round was led by BioGeneration Ventures and Wellington Partners, with Fund+, Perceptive Advisors and existing investors Capricorn Venture Partners, MINTS, PMV, QBIC and V-Bio Ventures contributing.

LEA, the Lipidomics Excellence Award, was founded to strengthen life sciences through lipidomics.  Over the course of April, the LEA jury deliberated on the submitted projects to announce the three LEA awardees.

US scientists have found that the complex interactions between fat tissue and the immune system are mediated by interleukin 33 (IL-33).

The European Lead Factory (ELF) – a drug discovery hub for validation new targets from academia and biotech SMEs – has again received project funding from the Innovative Medicine’s Initiative.

Transgène SA and AstraZeneca plc have entered into a collaboration and exclusive license option agreement on Transgène’s armed oncolytic immunotherapies.