Berlin is no longer well-known only for its amazing cultural landscape and clubbing locations. Today, the German capital is one of the top three European tech start-up cities. This is a major attraction for investors, big pharma companies, and high-class researchers from all over the world who come to settle in the HealthCapital region Berlin-Brandenburg. During BIO-Europe in November, it offers the opportunity to dive into a fast-growing life sciences ecosystem. 

German infection specialist InflaRx (Jena) raised US$55m in a Series D financing co-led by Bain Capital Life Sciences LP, Cormorant Asset Management LLC and RA Capital Management LLC  to finance its clinical programmes with its lead asset IFX-1.

Lipid analysis for early stages of drug discovery for Flagship VentureLabs with the aim to better understand molecular compositions of chondrisomes.

Norwegian Targovax ASA (Oslo) has reported tremendous safety, immunogenicity, and one-year survival data, of in the modified cohort of the TG01 trial in resected pancreatic cancer patients.

Sanofi is investing €170m to expand its vaccine manufacturing site in Val de Reuil, France, which produces 900 million vaccine doses worldwide each year.

British researchers have identified interleukin 36 (IL-36) as a druggable proinflammatory driver of psoriasis. Because of its very targeted effects of antibodies directed against the cytokine they want to start clinical tests in man. 

German-Israeli Neurim Pharmaceuticals announced top line efficacy results of its insomnia drug PedPRM in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

French cancer drug encapsulation specialist Erytech Pharma SA wants to raise US$100m (€85m) in an IPO at NASDAQ and a subsequent private placement outside Northern America to finance pivotal trials of eryaspase in ALL and pancreatic cancer. 

As first gene therapy ever, AMT-130 has been granted FDA Orphan Drug status in Huntington’s Disease.

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