Cancer specialist Artios Pharma has raised $153m in a Series C Financing led by Omega Funds and TCG X to progress its clinical pipeline.

AXA IM Alts has raised €1.9bn of equity to accelerate investments into the Life Sciences sector.

Dr Neil Butt is the new Chief Executive Officer at Oxford-based Orbit Discovery.

Synaffix has nonexclusivey licensed its award-winning ADC technologies to Chinese ProfoundBio in an up to $246m deal

Italian venture capital firm Panakès Partners, previously active in medtech, has closed the €150m “purple” fund with the goal to invest in “underserved” European Life Science companies.

Mainz-based BioNTech is expanding its portfolio for cancer therapies with the neoantigen TCR Cell Therapy R&D pipeline and manufacturing site from Gilead Science subsidiary Kite Pharmaceuticals.

Coventry-based NanoSyrinx plc has raised £6.2m in seed financing to develop a new cell engineering tool for novel targeted therapeutic modalities.

Dutch immunotherapy company ISA Pharmaceuticals has closed a €26m funding round that will go towards advancing its therapy targeting HPV16-related cancers.

As part of its ‘Clean Future’ strategy, Unilever NV has licensed enzyme technology from Arzeda Inc. to help rid detergent production of fossil carbon.

Malene Brondberg, Chief Financial Officer of Nordic Nanovector since May 2020, became Interim Chief Executive Officer of the company.