Mutabilis and IBT Vaccines have successfully bagged US$12m from the Novo Holdings REPAIR Impact Fund.
 

Critical care experts have presented data supporting the thesis that three specific pathways are the cause for about 90% of sepsis mortality.

Norwegian biopharma company Zelluna Immunotherapy appointed erstwhile CSO Namir Hassan as Chief Executive Officer.

Antabio SAS has got a US-$4.4m tranche from CARB-X to advance preclinical development of its P. aeruginosa treatment in Cystic Fibrosis patients

Creoptix AG, a Switzerland-based company focused on next-generation bioanalytical instruments, has named Line Stigen Raquet as Chief Executive Officer.

Swedish and Danish researchers have created a hydrogel that kills various types of bacteria and reduces inflammation in mice and pigs with infected wounds.

While open innovation may be seen as a way of cutting costs by shutting down in-house R&D in favour of promoting spin-offs, start-ups, and biotech SMEs, the open science movement aims to establish a completely new model for how to spur innovation. Eliminating intellectual property-related restrictions, open biology promises rapid and local production of biomaterials, dia­gnostics, or genome-edited crops in countries with no established IP system.

While open innovation may be seen as a way of cutting costs by shutting down in-house R&D in favour of promoting spin-offs, start-ups, and biotech SMEs, the open science movement aims to establish a completely new model for how to spur innovation. Eliminating intellectual property-related restrictions, open biology promises rapid and local production of biomaterials, dia­gnostics, or genome-edited crops in countries with no established IP system.

The technology of Oxford-based Oxford Biodynamics (OBD) promises insights into why immunotherapies only work in some patients but not in all. A major US pharma company now wants to validate OBD’s epigenetic biomarker discovery and development platform causing a share price gain of 15%.

The geographical proximity of Spain’s Northwestern region Galicia to Northern Portugal is a key factor for the birth of the new bioregion CT-Bio. This achievement looks forward to improving business competitiveness and the consolidation of the biotech and life sciences sector internationally.