The British NICE has defined the conditions for the reimbursement of Eli Lilly’s obesity blockbuster tirzepatide. This makes the UK the first country in which patients do not have to pay for the drug out of their own pocket.

French Ipsen has exclusively licensed BMX-502, a T-cell engager (TCE) from Biommunex SA, which prevents common problems of TCEs such as cytokine release syndrome and T cell exhaustion by using a specific mucosal T cell subpopulation abundant in the human body.

After securing an equity investment from French pharma giant Sanofi, Italian gene therapy company Resalis Therapeutics srl has begun enrolling participants for a Phase I study of its obesity gene therapy, RES-010, which converts white adipocytes into brown adipocytes.

The Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening (SLAS) has selected the European Biotechnology Magazine as its official media partner.

New AI tools and drug screening based on human cells and organoids promise a quantum leap in the success rate of drug development and in the processing of data from high-throughput analyses as well as a revolution in diagnostics. The SLAS Europe 2024 conference in Barcelona highlighted the latest advances set to transform the entire biopharma sector.

CN Bio, a leading provider of Organ-on-a-chip Systems and solutions that accelerate drug discovery and development workflows, today announced the launch of its PhysioMimix® Bioavailability assay kit: Human 18. Harnessing the capabilities of the PhysioMimix Multi-organ System, the kit enhances lead optimization and preclinical testing pipelines, providing an all-in-one solution to generate predictive insights into human oral bioavailability, and better inform lead candidate selection.

Chinese researchers headed by Prof. Dr. Hongbing Deng from Wuhan University report they were able to absorb up to 99.9% of microplastics in water, which could help solve one of the most pressing environmental problems.

The Dutch-Swiss company with operations also in Zurich, Switzerland, has raised US$73m in a Series B and will continue to expand its AI research, sales, and operations teams. The new announcement comes around a year after raising €21.92m in a Series A funding round.

Genentech, the US arm of Swiss-based Roche AG, plans to acquire its long-time partner in allogeneic CAR-T blood cancer and gene therapies, Poseida Therapeutics Inc, for up to US$1.5bn.

The General Court of the EU orders the European Commission to pay the costs in the case of Aplidin® against the Spanish company PharmaMar SA, in which an EU marketing authorisation was not granted due to conflict-of-interests within the CHMP of the European Medicines Agency.