Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Gourmey files first EU application for cell-based meat

Not the German InFamily Foods subsidiary The Cultivated B, but Gourmey SAS, founded in Paris in 2019 by Antoine Davydoff, Nicolas Morin-Forest and Victor Sayous, has submitted the first EU authorisation application for a cell-based meat product, a duck liver pâté (Foie gras), to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Confo Therapeutics closes €60m Series B financing

Belgian GPCR specialist Confo Therapeutics NV has raised €60m in an Series B financing round led by Ackermans & van Haaren to advance clinical development of two clinical programmes and preclinical candidates to treat rare endocrine diseases and obesity.

New targets for incurable blood cancer

A research consortium led by Charité in Berlin has found a protein pattern in 100 patients with the common blood cancer multiple myeloma and 38 healthy controls that independently identifies a poor prognosis and provides new targets for treating the incurable disease.

SynaptixBio Ltd and Evotec SE expand collaboration

Evotec SE is widening its 2022 R&D collaboration SynaptixBio Ltdi to optimise and identify new antisense oligonucleotides to treat children with H-ABC leukodystrophy, a rare genetic myelin synthesis defect that shows similar symptoms such as multiple sclerosis.