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Intellectual Property Providing access to medicines at affordable prices while maintaining incentives for the originators to invest into significant innovations is a balance that’s hard to find. Product hopping is a strategy for originators to minimise the erosion of their sales that has caught the attention of regulators and courts.

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Intellectual Property Providing access to medicines at affordable prices while maintaining incentives for the originators to invest into significant innovations is a balance that’s hard to find. Product hopping is a strategy for originators to minimise the erosion of their sales that has caught the attention of regulators and courts.

The vaccine candidate targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. © University of Oxford

Dutch Halix BV will manufacture a ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford .

Carrie Brownstein has started as the new Chief Medical Officer at Cellectis, a French biopharmaceutical company.

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Immatics Biotechnologies has landed a potential US$1.1bn deal with GlaxoSmith­Kline (GSK) to find novel cancer targets on solid tumours and to direct TCR-T cell therapies against them. European Biotechnology spoke with Dr Harpreet Singh, CEO of Immatics Biotechnologies.

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For years, French Carbios SAS has worked to set up a process that effectively depolymerizes PET, one of the most common plastics. Now its process has been published.

Amplidiag Easy, developed in partnership with Tecan, automates the nucleic acid extraction and PCR plate setup for all Amplidiag diagnostic products. © Mobidiag/Tecan

Molecular diagnostics specialist Mobidiag Ltd has got emergency approval for its Amplidiag® COVID-19 molecular diagnostic test in Finland.

New treatments against resistant Gram-negative bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are the focus of a deal that Swiss pharma company Roche signed with US-based biotech company Forge Therapeutics in March. Source: CDC

With the coronavirus pandemic mounting, experts are warning of AMR as being the next, hidden crisis. 

Part of the phylogenetic tree published in PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117. © Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

British researchers have tabled a phylogenetic tree showing different subtypes of SARS-CoV-2 developed in Asia, Europe and the US.

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Every year, it’s the same: in January, investors are scratching their heads, searching to find investment ideas that could ensure the greatest return/performance. Given the current valuation, can 2020 deliver windfall surprises for European names?