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French Brenus Pharma SA has raised €22.2m (US$25m) to accelerate clinical trials of two precision cancer vaccines derived from tumour cell banks representing more than 200 tumour antigens.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has revealed her nominees for new commissioners to lead the bloc for the next term from 2024 to 2029.

Swiss cancer and auto-immunity specialist ImmunOs Therapeutics AG has closed a Series C financing round of US$11m led by existing investors Gimv, Pfizer Ventures, Mission BioCapital, BioMed Partners and supported by new investor Double Point Ventures.

Austria has once again come a little closer to its goal of achieving the highest research and development rate (R&D rate) in the EU. Two thirds of R&D investments are made by industry, of which around 16% are made by foreign companies. Two current examples of investments in Austria from the life sciences sector are Novartis and Ligand Pharmaceuticals.

After three and a half years of construction, the CDMO Richter Biologics has inaugurated its new multipurpose production facility that triples the CDMO’s capacity for the bacterial production of pDNA, vaccines, nanobodies and recombinant proteins.

British protein degrader specialist PhoreMost Ltd has extended its €33m Series B financing to $50M and plans to advance its oncology and inflammation degrader programmes.

Agri-biotech SOLASTA Bio Ltd. has raised US$14m in a Series A funding round led by Forbion. With the money, the UK company will advance its first-of-a kind peptide-based bioinsecticide.

Sino Biological, a leading recombinant protein production company, is pleased to announce an expansion of its strategic partnership with BioGeometry, a pioneer in digital biology. This collaboration brings together Sino Biological’s advanced protein expression and wet-lab capabilities with BioGeometry’s generative AI protein design and optimization platform. The two companies aim to enhance their joint offerings and explore high-value market opportunities globally.

A Phase III trial evaluating AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s potential “blockbuster” lung cancer drug Dato-DXd showed no significant improvement over standard chemotherapy. Investors reacted quickly: AstraZeneca’s share price dropped 5% following the announcement.