At the 15th Annual Scrip Awards, Mogrify Chair Jane Osbourn has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. She received the award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the biotech industry throughout her career.

Sanofi will acquire Synthorx Inc to expand its  immuno-oncology pipeline with THOR-707, an optimised IL-2 candidate.

Meatable NV, a specialist for cultivated meat, has raised an additional US$10m in seed funding, bringing the company’s total funding to US$13m.

Claus Haberda will be the new Managing Director at Roche Diagnostics GmbH, succeeding Ursula Redeker, who will return to Basel.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the GAVI Vaccine Alliance not to pay huge subsidies to Big Pharma companies for pneumococcal vaccine

T cell agonist specialist ImCheck Therapeutics will use €48m (US$53m) from a Series B financing to push clincial pipeline of antibodies activating gamma-delta T-cells.

Pierre Fabre SA and Puma Biotechnology, Inc. have broadened the geographic coverage of their license agreement on commercialisation of Nerlynx® (neratinib).

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have selected ECBF Management GmbH as investment advisor for the €250m EU circular bioeconomy fund.