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PPF-owned company SOTIO has acquired the rights to use the BOXR CAR-T platform and products from Cambridge-based Unum Therapeutics.

Dividing Breast Cancer Cell. Credit: National Cancer Institute / Univ. of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Polyphor AG has licenced its metastatic cancer drug balixafortide to Fosun Pharma Co Ltd to market the drug exclusively in China.
 

Swedish diagnostic company Immunovia AB announces Patrik Dahlen as new CEO starting November 2020.

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British fibrosis therapeutics start-up Engitix Ltd has entered a collaboration agreement  with Takeda to develop anti-fibrotic therapies in liver diseases.

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US experiemental mRNA vaccine maker Moderna Inc is in advanced talks with the European Commission to supply 80 million doses mRNA-1273, its candidate vs SARS-CoV-2

TRMs in yellow. © Univ. Erlangen/Sebastian Zundler

Scientists from Leuven, Rotterdam  and San Diego have published a sequencing-based map of ulcerative colitis paving the way to new treatments. 

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Roche and Regeneron have signed an manufacturing and distribution agreement on Regeneron’s Phase II therapeutic antibody for the treatment of COVID-19.

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Abigail Herron from Aviva Investors describes why AMR is a blind spot for investors and which action is needed to change it. 

Neisseria meningitidis, © CDC

Antinfectives specialist AiCuris GmbH will launch the AiCubator, a new way to collaborate in anti-infectives and support novel approaches, at the 4th AMR Conference.

Lung tissue colonised SARS-CoV-2. Picture: NIAID

Immunovative Therapies Ltd and its US subsidiary Mirror Biologics Inc. are testing a novel, T cell-based vaccination concept that might protect risk groups from new SARS-CoV-2 variants and any emerging viral pandemic in the future. However, therapies that significantly reduce the mortality rate of COVID-19 patients may be a cheaper way compared to vaccines to protect high-risk groups. UK researchers reported on the first therapy in mid-June.