Targeted radiopharmaceuticals maker 3B Pharmaceuticals snaps US$40m upfront in a global exclusive licensing agreement for its FAP-Targeting Peptide Technology.

Syngenta has announced to leverage Biotalys’ AGROBODY technology platform to expand its biocontrol pipeline.

Phialogics AG has got a €600,000 pre-seed financing from German HTGF to validate its approach to rebalance the immune system of people with auto-immune diseases.

The switch from lab-scale to industrial-scale AAV production requires deep ­hands-on expertise in various technological solutions, their limitations, and their ­suitability for GMP large-scale manufacturing. Direct application of lab-scale process leads to expensive ­AAV-based products and unnecessarily laborious industrial processes. The complexity and growing demands for controllable critical quality attributes (CQAs), create a challenging blend.

European life sciences venture capital company Forbion has raised two oversubscribed funds totalling €1.35 bn.

German radiopharmaceuticals developer Ariceum Therapeutics has raised a further €22.75m extension of its €25m Series A financing announced in June 2022.

Genmab and argenx have entered a multiyear collaboration bringing together capabilities to jointly discover, develop and commercialise antibody therapies.

Swiss Adaptyv Biosystems Sàrl has launched two fast-feedback tools that allow cheap, rapid and minaturised validation of AI-designed proteins.

Biomanufacturing?Implementing high-quality process development that considers GMP manufacturing from the start is critical to reducing costs and timeline disruptions associated with raw material supply chain insecurity, adhering to regulatory compliance, and avoiding process re-design at a later stage.

Ultrasound that switches cancer drug on could significantly reduce chemotherapy side effects, German researchers found in preclinical studies.