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French vaccine developer Valneva SA will raise $85m in a financing arrangement with Deerfield and OrbiMed and go Nasdaq to co-fund its Lyme disease programme.

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The EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended fifteen medicines for approval at its January 2020 meeting.

European venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners announced the promotion of Michael Krel to Partner of the Industrial Biotechnology team. Krel previously served as Principal on the team, where he focused on early-stage deals in Europe and North America.

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The 10th edition of the European Biotechnology Science & Industry Guide once more offers an interesting cross-section of the European biotech scene.

Active centre of the IMP dehydrogenase. © University of Luebeck/DESY, Lars Redecke

Researchers at the University of Luebeck have revealed the structure of the IMP dehydrogenase, a central target of T. brucei, which causes sleeping sickness.

Aedes mosquito. © Imperial College London

Scientists at Imperial College London have created a worldwide atlas of dengue virus transmission with much higher spatial resolution than any previous regional- or global-scale estimates.

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The ENABLE project has achieved its initial goals to identify three antibacterial leads, select two antibacterial development candidates and advance one compound into Phase I development.

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Bionetix, ProQinase, and MercachemSyncom have announced that they will jointly develop a new AML drug, from target identification to clinical testing

Ipsen has named steven Hildemann as Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Head of Global Medical Affairs and Pharmacovigilance, effective March 2020.

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Merck KGaA’s 2017 Swiss cancer spin-out iOnctura SA has raised €15m to bring its PI3K? inhibitor and autotaxin inhibitor to the clinic.