Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the GAVI Vaccine Alliance not to pay huge subsidies to Big Pharma companies for pneumococcal vaccine

T cell agonist specialist ImCheck Therapeutics will use €48m (US$53m) from a Series B financing to push clincial pipeline of antibodies activating gamma-delta T-cells.

Pierre Fabre SA and Puma Biotechnology, Inc. have broadened the geographic coverage of their license agreement on commercialisation of Nerlynx® (neratinib).

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have selected ECBF Management GmbH as investment advisor for the €250m EU circular bioeconomy fund.

French researchers have found MALT1 blockers not only to act on blood cancers but also to be effective as a treatment for glioblastoma. 

Researchers have designed a limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A gene therapy preventing cardiotoxicity of calpain3 gene transfer.

Having secured a €2.785m grant from the EU and €4.55m from a Series B round, MaxiVAX is going full steam ahead with its Phase II cancer vaccine programmes.

Geneva-based GeNeuro SA announced  a new clinical study of temelimab to treat patients with multiple sclerosis in collaboration with Karolinska Institute and ASC.

John Mattick has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Oxford-based research company Arctoris Ltd.

Roche AG said on Friday that its PD-L1 blocker Tecentriq plus its VEFG blocker Avastin improved progression-free survival versus sorafinib in a pivotal study in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients.