French antibiotics player Deinove has inked a licence option agreement with Redx Pharma plc concerning a new class of synthetic preclinical topoisomerase blockers to treat infections caused by Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens.
The German Bioeconomy Council said policymakers would risk Germany’s leadership in bioeconomy if they dont capitalise on new technology options resulting from the ongoing merger of digital and bio-technologies.
VEGF blocker Eylea (aflibercept), which is co-developed for eye diseases by Bayer HealthCare and Regeneron under a deal signed in 2006, has met the 24-week primary endpoint of the pivotal Panorama Phase III trial.
H. Lundbeck A/S has announced it will acquire Dutch Prexton Therapeutics B.V., a one-programme company developing the allosteric metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 4 (mGluR4) modulator foliglurax (PXT002331) in Parkinsons Disease.
Researchers from Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Germany report that expression of a post-stroke factor boost arterial plaque formation. The identification of the new target might open up an avenue to prevent embolism and further complications in stroke patients.
Researchers have applied a self-learning algorithm to distinguish the almost 100 brain cancer types through their methylation pattern in a routine diagnostic setting. The method eliminates inter-pathologist variation in histopathological diagnosis and resulted in a change of diagnoses in up to 12% of prospective cases.
The tremendous success of last years BIO Europe Spring in Barcelona was hard to beat. But the follow-up this year in Amsterdam organised by EBD Group together with Health Holland crystallised as a worthy successor.
German MYR Pharma has completed a proof of concept Phase IIb trial with its first-in-class hepatitis D entry inhibitor Myrcludex B, which is developed under the European Medicines Agencys PRIME scheme.
Alirocumab, Sanofi s/Regenerons PCSK9 inhibitor, in combination with statins has met the endpoint of reducing the number of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) over statin monotherapy in 18,924 high-risk patients.
Researchers at Medimmune, AstraZeneca’s biologics arm, have identified a mechanism that drives the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis.