Rapid tests have received a lot of attention during the Coronavirus pandemic, but as the number of tests available has increased, so has the confusion around the different types and what they can deliver. What if there were laboratory quality tests that could produce a result in just a few minutes?
AI predicts mutations underlying neurological diseases
Latest NewsUsing data from more than 20,000 patients with neurological diseases, researchers have established an algorithm that predicts whether mutations in ion channels will cause disease.
F2G bags €50.8m financing to advance olorofim
Latest NewsUK-Austrian fungal infection specialist F2G Ltd has secured a €50.8m (US $60.8m) financing from new and existing investors.
Evotec receives $8.4m CARB-X funding
Latest NewsEvotec SE and its new partner Resolute Therapeutics, a specialist in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), have received a US$8.4m funding from CARB-X for co-development of a first-in-class antibiotic.
The new role of communications in times of corona
Latest NewsCOVID-19 has put life science research companies into the limelight. An Interview with Raimund Gabriel, founder and managing director MC Services AG, on the role of corporate communications in the corona crisis.
HistologiX appoints new Managing Director
AppointmentsBarbara McManus as the new managing director of Nottingham-based Contract Research Organisation (CRO) HistologiX.
The end of partnering events as we know them
Latest NewsAn ongoing crisis and evolving new working habits of industry executives call for an entirely new and up-to-date partnering format. Workarounds such as moving a partnering event’s scheduled one-on-one meetings online is neither imaginative nor does it meet the requirements of flexibility and effectiveness. The format presented here sounds the bell for a new era of pharma partnering.
BioNTech and Fosun Pharma kick off Chinese COVID-19 trials
Latest NewsBioNTech SE and its partner Fosun Pharma Co. Ltd have selected another COVID-19 vaccine candidate for Phase I testing in China than tested in global Phase III trials.
Evotec partners with Secarna to develop LNA drugs
Latest NewsEvotec SE has secured a strategic partnership with Secarna Pharmaceuticals GmbH to co-develop a LNA drug pipeline.
Rapid test for pandemics
Latest NewsRapid tests have received a lot of attention during the Coronavirus pandemic, but as the number of tests available has increased, so has the confusion around the different types and what they can deliver. What if there were laboratory quality tests that could produce a result in just a few minutes?
EC secures 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Latest NewsThe European Commission has reserved 300 million doses from Sanofi SA’/GSK plc’s adjuvanted recombinant COVID-19 vaccine.