Phage therapy specialist Vésale Bioscience gas bageds €1.8m  from European Innovation Council (EIC) to fight antibiotic resistance (AMR).

A decade ago, the news about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch went viral. Since then, a multitude of startups proliferated on a mission to create ecological alternatives to the ubiquitous fossil-based plastics. At ECBF, we are closely monitoring the emerging materials for packaging applications, by far the main use case of plastics.

Abionyx Pharma SA has announced positive data from Phase IIa testing of iCER-001,  a recombinant apoA-I, as a treatment for septic patients at high risk of developing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
 

BioNTech SE will pay £562m in cash to acquire its former partner InstaDeep Ltd. to expand its capabilities in AI-based drug discovery.

The AI Health Innovation Cluster is bringing together leading scientists at the ­interface
of artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare, and data science. The goal is to combine and further develop the outstanding research networks and infrastructures in modern health data sciences that have emerged in the Rhine-Neckar region in Germany in recent years.

Roche AG’s US subsidiary Genentech Inc has withdrawn its checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab from the market after disappointing results in bladder cancer.

SARS-COV-2 exposed our vulnerability and strategic weakness at European­ level, in terms of biotechnological manufacturing capacity.

Evosep APS has inked a $40m funding deal with Novo Holdings A/S that is aimed to advance standardised clinical LC-MS-based drug discovery and diagnostic multi-marker tests.

With the help of a €25m loan from the European Investment Bank, ExeVir BIO BV will advance clinical trials with its COVID-19 nanobody XVR012.

Rational antibody design specialist Hummingbird Bioscience has licenced a cancer target and the modular ADC technology of Dutch Synaffix BV.