Critical care experts have presented data supporting the thesis that three specific pathways are the cause for about 90% of sepsis mortality.
Antabio SAS has got a US-$4.4m tranche from CARB-X to advance preclinical development of its P. aeruginosa treatment in Cystic Fibrosis patients
Swedish and Danish researchers have created a hydrogel that kills various types of bacteria and reduces inflammation in mice and pigs with infected wounds.
The technology of Oxford-based Oxford Biodynamics (OBD) promises insights into why immunotherapies only work in some patients but not in all. A major US pharma company now wants to validate OBD’s epigenetic biomarker discovery and development platform causing a share price gain of 15%.
Paris-based European venture capital company Truffle Capital closed its €250m BioMedTech fund – celebrating its company building approach.
Basel-based biopharma company Cellestia Biotech AG has successfully closed a Series B financing round, raising a total of CHF 20 million.
Data from 1,200 heart failure patients demonstrate that high discharge levels of the biomarker bio-ADM® (bioactive Adrenomedullin) indicate residual congestion in heart failure patients.
The new company, named Augustine Therapeutics, is a Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) and Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven spin-off. Funded with €4.2m from mainly local investors, Augustine’s first priority is finding new therapeutics for patients suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system.
French Transgene SA said it has terminated its lead programme TG4010 in combination with chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibition.
New research demonstrates that disruption of EGF receptor signalling allows commensal bacteria to invade hairs and cause skin lesions.