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GSK has agreed to acquire California-based RAPT Therapeutics in a deal valued at $2.2 billion (€ 1.88 billion), expanding its respiratory, immunology and inflammation portfolio with a late-stage food allergy candidate. The transaction gives GSK global rights to ozureprubart, a long-acting anti-IgE monoclonal antibody now in phase IIb clinical development.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation has committed up to DKK 5.5 billion (€736 million) to the BioInnovation Institute (BII), a Copenhagen-based hub for life science and deep tech entrepreneurship. The long-term funding, running from 2026 to 2035, aims to strengthen Denmark’s innovation capacity while helping Europe turn scientific excellence into companies, jobs and solutions.
Paris-based private equity firm Andera Partners has kicked off 2026 with a surge of cross-border activity, leading two significant Series A financings for U.S. life sciences ventures. The back-to-back rounds of the French investment fund signal a commitment to innovative startups in the United States, where both companies are headquartered and conducting key development operations
Swiss biotechnology company TECregen, based in Basel, has raised CHF 10 million (about €11 million) in seed financing to advance therapies designed to restore immune function by regenerating the thymus, an organ central to T-cell development but rarely targeted by drugs.
Swiss anti-infectives specialist Basilea Pharmaceutica has entered a research collaboration with U.S.-based Prokaryotics to develop a novel broad-spectrum antifungal aimed at treating severe invasive fungal infections, the companies announced on January 7th 2026.
UK-based biotech LoQus23 Therapeutics is advancing an oral small molecule targeting a fundamental genetic process in Huntington’s disease, a rare neurodegenerative disorder.