Lady with solnatide vials in production. © Apeptico

Austrian COVID-19 patients with severe lung dysfunction for the first time have a treatment option within a compassionate use program for Apeptico’s solnatide.

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Following the completion of Danaher’s €19.5bn take-over of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, GE’s CDMO arm is renamed Cytiva.
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Low intrinsic efficacy can explain the reduced side effects of new agonists of the m-opioid receptor a British-Australian reseach team reports.

Austrian funding organisation FFG has launched €1m for COVID-19 projects, one of which is Apeptico's project. Furthermore, Apeptico gets funding under a Horizon 2020 grant of €47.5m for 17 COVID-19 projects. ©FFG

Austrian APEPTICO has got Horizon 2020 money for accelerated development and clinical use of Solnatide for the treatment of COVID-19 patients

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The European Medicines Agency EMA has backed eight medicines for approval at its virtual March 2020 meeting.

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Scandinavian researchers have created a unified, open-source model providing a genome-wide portrait of human disease metabolism.

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Paris-based Novacyt SA has signed a global distribution agreement with Bruker Ltd for its COVID-19 diagnostic test.

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AC Immune SA has received a milestone payment of CHF10m from Eli Lilly and Company.

Chart comparing symptoms in Covid-19 survivors and non-survivors. © Niels Riedemann/Inflarx NV

Scientists have discussed a link between Covid-19 and sepsis at a virtual symposium at Charité Berlin that might help reduce the burden of end-stage disease.

Triple helix structure of collagen. © PRNewsfoto/Evonik Corporation

Evonik Industries has established a new animal-free and fermentation-based industrial-scale recombinant collagen production platform.