SOTIO, a biotechnology company belonging to the PPF Group, announces today the appointment of Professor Radek Špíšek as Chief Executive Officer.

An US-German team has found a way to halt the inflammatory brain cell destruction in mice with multiple sclerosis (MS) without suppression of the human immune system.

Today Mission Therapeutics, a drug discovery and development company focused on treating fibrosis, neurodegenerative and other diseases by selectively targeting deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs), announced the promotion of Dr Paul Thompson to Vice President, Clinical Development with immediate effect.

Liège-based Convert Pharmaceuticals SA has been granted a total of €13.6m in equity and non-dilutive funding by investors Droia Oncology Ventures, Meusinvest and Spinventure, with non-dilutive support by the Walloon region and funds from the European Eurostars programme.

Rentschler Biopharma SE, a service provider for biopharmaceuticals, today announced the appointment of Mr. Federico Pollano as the new Senior Vice President of Business Development, effective March 1.

Novo Holdings has launched the REPAIR impact fund commissioned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.  The goal is to invest into early-stage drug developers with new concepts to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Paquet is a French national who since November 2015 has served as one of the three Deputy Secretaries-General of the Juncker Commission, and has now been been appointed as Director General of DG Research and Innovation

Mereo BioPharma Group plc, a multi-asset biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics that aim to improve outcomes for patients with rare and specialty diseases, today announced the appointment of Wills Hughes-Wilson as Head of Patient Access and Commercial Planning.

AstraZeneca (AZ) and Bavarian Nordic (BN) combine BN’s cancer vaccine CV301 and AZ’s PD-L1 checkpoint blocker durvalumab in an investigator-sponsored trail to check synergistic effects in patients with colorectal and pancreatic cancer overexpressing CEA and MUC-1.

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended three medicines, two thereof orphan drugs, at its February 2018 meeting.