With a new law, the German government wants to increase the number of clinical trials conducted in Germany and make the country number one in Europe again.
A bacterium of the gut microbiome seems to spark an autoimmune disease in the kidneys by leaking antigens that trigger the immune system.
Cultivated meat producer Innocent Meat GmbH has cashed in €3m in funding from Venture Capital Fonds MV and an anonymous business angel.
Spanish Ferrer Internacional, SA has aquired the ex-US rights to VRG50635 from Verge Genomics Inc to commercialise the oral Phase I experimental ALS treatment.
Born with the aim of harmonising the application, evaluation, and supervision process of clinical trials conducted in EU countries, there is much room for improvement for the Clinical Trial Information System CTIS, particularly with regard to SMEs and translational researchers.
Novo Nordisk is set to acquire German miRNA blocker specialist Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH for up to €1.025bn including milestone payments.
Researchers at NDM Pharma A/S and Aarhus University have demonstrated that their oral CIC-1 blocker NMD670 restores crosstalk between neurons and muscles in Myasthenia gravis.
Basel-headquartered Roche AG has inaugurated a brand new €90m gene therapy development centre in Penzberg near Munich.
British pharma giant AstraZeneca has announced to acquire radio-conjugate specialist Fusion Therapeutics Inc for US$2bn upfront.
Exeter-based university spin-out Senisca Ltd has added £3.7m seed money to a £1.1m not dilutive funding to advance its pipeline of drugs targetting RNA splicing dysregulation.