Enthera Pharmaceuticals extends its €28m Series A financing from last July to a total of €35m as Roche Venture Fund joins the company’s investor syndicate.

A US subsidiary of Hamburg-based Evotec SE has won a contract from the US government to produce antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.

Spanish Accure Therapeutics appoints Dr Rossella Medori as new Chief Medical officer.

Israel’s Omnix Medical has been granted €10.8m needed to start Phase I/II development of a potential AMR breaking drug in Gram-negative bugs.

Germany has become the first country in Europe to buy the US emergency-approved COVID-19 antibody therapies from Regeneron and Eli Lilly.

French Servier SA and the UK’s MiNA Therapeutics Ltd have entered into a R&D partnership to identify and develop small activating RNAs (saRNA) to treat neurological disorders.

Irish life sciences company Neurent Medical has closed a €21m Series B investment co-led by LSP as well as Atlantic Bridge with participation of Fountain Healthcare Partners.

J&J subsidiary Janssen Pharma has presented updated Phase I/II antibody levels supporting a single shot administration for its COVID-19 vaccine.

The BioXp™ system is the world’s only automated platform for on-demand DNA assembly and amplification.

German Researchers have unraveled how remdesivir interferes with the viral RNA polymerase and why it does not block SARS-CoV-2 completely.