Swiss pharma giant Roche has complemented its drug pipeline in the lucrative hemophilia A market by taking over hemophilia A gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics for US$4.3bn.
Sodium chloride can promote immune responses that have been linked to atopic dermatitis. Researchers have now unraveled the mechanistic details between salt intake and activation of T cells.
Dutch autoimmunity specialist Calypso Biotech BV has raised €20m in a Series A financing co-led by Gilde Healthcare and Inkef Capital and co-financed by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), and the company’s seed investor M Ventures.
Evotec AG and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) have joined platforms in order to find novel resistance-breaking antibiotics against Gram-negative bugs.
Researchers for the first time have found a way to prevent immune rejection of allogenic iPSC-derived cell and tissue transplants.
Swiss newco Arvelle Therapeutics has baged a $180m (€159.1m) series A financing led by LSP. The company licenced the anti-epileptic candidate cenobamate (YKP3089) for $100m (€88.4m) upfront from SK Biopharmaceuticals.
The market for bio-based building blocks and polymers showed moderate growth to 7.5 million tonnes in 2018 and will grow with a CGAR of 4% by 2023 reports German nova-Institute.
Swiss researchers have demonstrated a way to cure type I diabetes without cell transplantation. In model mice the reprogrammed non-islet cells from human pancreas
French industrial biotech company Afyren announced a capital increase of €21m in a financing round led by Sofinnova Partners and Valquest Partners to scale up its biobased organic acid production to industrial scale.
Biotech Campus Delft, Royal DSM and YES!Delft partner up have launched a Biotech Validation Lab to validate the business concepts of European biotech startups.