Scotch cancer corp NuCana plc was up 3% (to US$18.61) after closing an initial public offering on Friday led by Citigroup, Jefferies and Cowen and co-managed by William Blair.
Up to recently, it was not possible for academic researchers to visualise the spatial distribution of intratumoural heterogeneity within solid tumours. An international research team has now reported a way to track changes with whole-tissue biospy phenotyping.
Belgian nanobody developer Ablynx NV‘s nanobody caplacizumab has met relevant endpoints in the pivotal Hercules Phase III study in patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP), paving the way to market authorisation in Europe and the US.
A newly-developed, fast, and cost-effective dipstick test sensitively and specifically identified Zika virus and all four dengue virus subtypes without any detectable cross-reactivity.
The Spanish biotech sector is growing. This attracts more and more international investors. End of September ASEBIO organised the first edition of an Investor Day.
German CRO Evotec AG announced an €15m investment in British Exscienta Ltd. to push artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery.
Danish Genmab A/S has received market approval in Japan for its anti-CD38 antibody daratumumab (DARZALEX®) as therapy for relapsed or refractory Multiple Myeloma.
Neurology specialist Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. (Milan) has raised gross proceeds of CHF 27m through a private placement of new shares via an accelerated book-building process.
Though not reaching the overall surival endpoint in Phase III, the European Commission has granted label extension for Roche’s checkpoint blocker Tecentriq in two types of metastatic bladder cancer.
French microbiota specialist Da Volterra has received an EIB loan to speed up development of treatments that prevent antibiotic resistance and hospital acquired infections.