Leiden-based Mimetas, specialist in organ-on-chip-based disease models for drug discovery and development, has appointed Dhaval Patel (UCB, Belgium) as Chair of its Board of Directors.

Why are so many vaccine developers choosing Thermo Scientific Charged Aerosol Detection (CAD)? Hear the third very good reasons why CAD was used for analysis of lipid nanoparticles in approved mRNA vaccines.

Through the acquisition of Versantis for €40m upfront and further €65m in milestones, Genfit SA has added three clinical and preclinical candidates to its liver drug portfolio.

Foodtech startup Standing Ovation SA has closed an oversubscribed €12m Series A financing round led by Astanor Ventures. 

Oslo-based Lytix Biopharma has a new Chief Business Officer. Stephen Worsley has started at the Norwegian immune-oncology company at the beginning of September.

HeartBeat.bio and Molecular Devices announce collaboration to automate and scale cardiac organoids for high-throughput drug discovery screening

Dutch researchers report they could detect a COVID-19 infection with better sensitivity than antigen tests by a mobile app that uses AI to analyse voice recordings.

Dutch Pleco Therapeutics BV has raised €17.3m in a Series A financing to push its lead candidate in acute myeloid leukaemia to market approval.

Synaffix B.V. and Emergence Therapeutics AG have entered into a licensing agreement of up to $360m to find ADCs directed against target molecules from Emergence.

Finance Expert Pascal Bricout strengthens French Carbios as Chief of Strategy; Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.