PDC*line Pharma, a clinical stage biotech company developing a new class of immunotherapies for cancers announced today that Dr Channa Debruyne joined the company in August as medical director to lead the clinical research team.
Antibody drug conjugate expert ADC Therapeutics SA has filed a Registration Statement for an Initial Public Offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Glucoma transplant specialist iStar Medical SA has closed a Series C finanincing round led by LSP and Gimv.
Avillion LLP, a drug development company focused on the co-development and financing of pharmaceutical candidates, has announced the appointment of Dr Anders Gersel Pedersen as a Non-Executive Director of Bond 2 Development 2 GP, the General Partner of Bond Avillion 2, the Avillion entity that enters into the co-development agreements with pharma partners.
Dutch gene therapy company UniQure has launched a US$200m stock offering on Nasdaq.
Polpharma Biologics SA has partnered up with Novartis subsidiary Sandoz AG to market a natalizumab biosimilar. As part of the global commercialization agreement, Polpharma Biologics will be responsible for the development, manufacturing and supply of the collaboration biosimilar, which is currently in Phase III clinical development for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS).
German pharma company Boehringer Ingelheim said the phase II trial for candidate drug BI456906 is expected to be initiated in late 2019 triggering a €20m milestone payment to Zealand Pharma A/S.
Results presented at European Society of Cardiology Congress 2019 demonstrate a new disease mechanism predicting acute organ dysfunction in heart failure patients.