Spanish Ferrer Internacional, SA has aquired the ex-US rights to VRG50635 from Verge Genomics Inc to commercialise the oral Phase I experimental ALS treatment.
Novo Nordisk is set to acquire German miRNA blocker specialist Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH for up to €1.025bn including milestone payments.
Researchers at NDM Pharma A/S and Aarhus University have demonstrated that their oral CIC-1 blocker NMD670 restores crosstalk between neurons and muscles in Myasthenia gravis.
Basel-headquartered Roche AG has inaugurated a brand new €90m gene therapy development centre in Penzberg near Munich.
British pharma giant AstraZeneca has announced to acquire radio-conjugate specialist Fusion Therapeutics Inc for US$2bn upfront.
Exeter-based university spin-out Senisca Ltd has added £3.7m seed money to a £1.1m not dilutive funding to advance its pipeline of drugs targetting RNA splicing dysregulation.
French endocrine diseases specialist Amolyt Pharma SA has entered into a take-over agreement by AstraZeneca.
London-based virtual drug discovery specialist Relation Therapeutics Ltd has closed another US$35m seed financing round, bringing its total seed fundraise to US$60m.
TREM2, a receptor on the surface of macrophages, reduces necrotic core formation in early atherosclerosis, a German-Austrian reseach team reports.
German researchers for the first time have expanded the half life of oligonucleotide-based drugs using artificial building blocks that mimic the features of RNA/DNA but are not digestible by enzymes.