Picture: 2024 Mack-Brooks Exhibitions - Part of RX, St Albans, UK

Connect with the world of fine and speciality chemicals: taking place from 19-20 June 2024 at the Messe Düsseldorf exhibition centre in Germany, Chemspec Europe is the key marketplace to showcase the full array of fine and speciality chemicals, bespoke ­solutions, services, and equipment.  

Double invest by Forbion in quite different topics: in-vivo celltherapy and neurological disorders. (courtesey Capstan Inc.; Engrail Thx)

Forbion, the European life sciences venture capital firm from The Netherlands, announced its participation in oversubscribed Series B financing in Capstan Therapeutics Inc. and Engrail Therapeutics. Both companies are located in San Diego, USA.

Richter-Helm´s expanded manufacturing site at Bovenau, Germany  ready to manufacture your product; ©Richter-Helm

Professionalism and quality are always at the forefront along the whole value chain: from gene to product. To pro-actively meet the evolving demand of the market to produce new assets Richter-Helm significantly increased its manufacturing capacities for biopharmaceutical products at its production site in Bovenau, Germany.

At the end of February, 200 German clinical trial experts gathered in Frankfurt/Main to discuss with representatives of the German Ministry of Health, how to implement model contract clauses into a law that speeds up clinical trials and translational medicine in Germany. According Model contract clauses have been established before by stakeholders from Deutsche Hochschulmedizin, das KKS-Netzwerk, die Pharmaverbände vfa und BPI sowie der CRO-Verband BVMA. © BVMA

With a new law, the German government wants to increase the number of clinical trials conducted in Germany and make the country number one in Europe again.

IgA depostis (green) in glomeruli of humanised mice. © Patrick Gleeson, University College Cork

A bacterium of the gut microbiome seems to spark an autoimmune disease in the kidneys by leaking antigens that trigger the immune system.

Myo-satellite cells grown in Innocent Meat's serum-free growth medium. © Innocent Meat

Cultivated meat producer Innocent Meat GmbH has cashed in €3m in funding from Venture Capital Fonds MV and an anonymous business angel.

Group Ferrer is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. © Ferrer

Spanish Ferrer Internacional, SA has aquired the ex-US rights to VRG50635 from Verge Genomics Inc to commercialise the oral Phase I experimental ALS treatment.

Ion Arocena; General Manager Asebio; © Asebio

Born with the aim of harmonising the application, evaluation, and supervision process of clinical trials conducted in EU countries, there is much room for improvement for the Clinical Trial Information System CTIS, particularly with regard to SMEs and translational researchers.

Claudia Ulbrich, MD, CEO und Prof. Thomas Thum, MD, PhD, CSO/CMO at Cardior Pharmaceuticals. © Cardior Pharmaceuticals

Novo Nordisk is set to acquire German miRNA blocker specialist Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH for up to €1.025bn including milestone payments.

The specialized region of the muscle where the motor neuron communicates the activation signal is at the neuromuscular junction. This is a specialized synapse between a nerve and muscle. In neuromuscular diseases there are deficits in both the motor neuron side (pre-synaptic) and on the muscle side (post-synaptic). © NDM Pharma

Researchers at NDM Pharma A/S and Aarhus University have demonstrated that their oral CIC-1 blocker NMD670 restores crosstalk between neurons and muscles in Myasthenia gravis.