Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Medicxi launches €267m fund

Novartis and Alphabet/Google asset Verily Life Sciences LLC has co-invested into the late stage fund designed to finance programmes with up to €25m post clinical proof of concept.

Germany is blocking EU Unitary Patent Court

Germany’s Constitutional Court has stopped the government from ratifying the EU’s Unitary Patent Package. At the time of the announcement, The German Bundestag and Council of Federal states had already adopted and signed the legislation.

Merck KGaA and F-star in €1bn deal

German Merck KGaA has secured an option on UK’s F-Star Biotechnology Ltd’s preclinical bispecific PD-L1/LAG checkpoint inhibitor FS118 and four candidates in discovery stage.