Germany’s government announced that it will create an agency for breakthrough ("jump") innovation to foster technology transfer of risky research projects with high market potential into products.
Urovant Sciences has licensed the global commercialisation rights for Ion Channel Innovations‘ gene therapy hMaxi-K for patients with overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms who have failed oral pharmacologic therapy.
Roche’s US arm Genentech has licenced Affimed NV’s ROCK platform to add multivalent antibodies, which could activate the innate immune system, to its cancer pipeline.
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) will tender £30m (€33.2m) to tackle the suffering and devastation caused by heart and circulatory diseases.
Orphan drug leader Shire plc (Dublin), has received the FDA’s approval for its antibody lanadelumab-flyo, which prevents hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks.
Blocking the extracellular matrix (ECM) enzyme leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H) dampens inflammation but promotes changes in the airways of mice with allergic asthma due to accumulation of the ECM degradation product PGP.
Novo Nordisk and Evotec have joined forces to find new drugs in the lucrative diabetes and obesity markets.
French Genkyotex SA has secured an €7.5m gross financing to expand the scope of its Phase II product GKT831 in Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC).
Roche AG’s ALK blocker Alecensa (alectinib) has been granted market approval by China National Drug Administration as first line NSCLC monotherapy in patients with ALK-positive non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
BioNTech AG has partnered with Pfizer to develop a mRNA-based flu vaccine.