Meeting of Mr Charles Michel, President of the European Council with Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Federal Chancellor; Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister; and Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister (from left to right).
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Negotiations of the EU Council on the EU’s seven-year budget have failed, putting R&D funding at risk for significant cuts.

Glycom's €50m HMO manufacturing site in Esbjerg, Denmark. © Glycom A/S

Royal DSM NV has entered the growing market of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) taking over the producer of recombinant 2′-fucosyl lactose, Danish Glycom A/S.

Immatics Biotechnologies has labs in Tübingen, Munich and Houston, US. © Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH

US-German immunooncology specialist Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH has licensed two of its TCR-T programs to GlaxoSmithKline for US$50m upfront.

Univercells SA

Univercells S.A. cashes in up to €50m from the KKR subsidiary Gamma Bioscience to advance its gene and cell therapy manufacturing platform.

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Shortly before a EU health ministers discuss the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, EU diagnostic labs have considered themselves prepared for a possible Sars-CoV-2 epidemic.

Co-founder Fiona Withey is the new Chief Executive Officer of TrakCel, a software developer of orchestration systems for advanced therapies. Co-founder Ravi Nalliah was appointed to the role of Chief Strategy Officer.

Applied Photophysics Limited, active in biophysical characterization of biomolecules, has appointed Tim Flanagan as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors.

Dublin headquarters of Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc. ©
PharmaMar and Jazz Pharmaceuticals have received FDA Priority Review of a NDA for lurbinectedin in relapsed SCLC (Small Cell Lung Cancer).
A pancreatic islet from a mouse in a typical position, close to a blood vessel; insulin in red, nuclei in blue. Generated in the Solimena lab, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden © Jakob Suckale

Using a combination of approved diabetes drugs, a Swiss-US research team was able to support the regeneration of insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas. 

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Researchers report that JAK inhibitors – a class of approved anti-inflammatory drugs – prevented bone loss in mice with osteoporosis and two patients with rheumatoid arthritis.