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Why the US AMR accelerator aims to expand its reach in Europe to support antibacterial R&D, and why it is important to bundle global resources, explains Kevin Outterson, Executive Director of CARB-X.

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Under a three-year agreement, British pharma giant AstraZeneca plc pays €20m and R&D costs to Seres Therapeutics Inc, which will identify patterns in the microbiome predicting therapy response to cancer immune therapies.

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Copenhagen-based SNIPR BIOME Aps raised €43m in a series A financing led by seed investor Lundbeckfonden Emerge (Copenhagen) and LSP and co-financed by North-East Family Office (Copenhagen) and Wellington Partners (Munich). 

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Modus Therapeutics AB, a company developing innovative treatments for patients with high unmet medical needs and a focus on sickle cell disease (SCD), announces the appointment of Mats Blom as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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Researchers at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson in Leiden have developed a small molecule antibody mimic, that prevents entry of multiple influenza virus serotypes.

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Seventure Partners has announced the first close of its second microbiome fund designed to put €200m in 20 companies developing microbiome-based health solutions.  

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Miranda Wolpert, MBE, an expert on child and adolescent mental health has joined the London-based Wellcome Trust as head of their mental health priority area.

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Swiss immunology and immuno-oncology specialist Numab Innovation AG has licenced its tri-specific antibody ND016 to Boston-based Intarcia Therapeutics Inc.

According to Nightstar Therapeutics' founding investor Syncona Ltd, Nightstar raised £56.4m in funding before being taken over by Biogen. © Syncona Ltd.

Biogen has strengthened its portfolio with Nightstar Therapeutics, a British gene therapy specialist for rare inherited eye disorders. 

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The EMA‘s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended eight medicines for approval in its last meeting in London, two thereof orphan medicines. Three got conditional marketing authorisation.