Germany’s Constitutional Court has stopped the government from ratifying the EU’s Unitary Patent Package. At the time of the announcement, The German Bundestag and Council of Federal states had already adopted and signed the legislation.
French virology company Abivac will receive €390,000 for the development of a polyclonal antibody cocktail to fight Ebola.
Orphan diseases diagnostics specialist Centogene AG said it will use the funds for biomarker and CDx development based on its proprietary CentoMD mutation database.
Swedish orthobiologics company Bonesupport Holding AB announced on Sunday it will go public at Nasdaq Stockholm.
Norwegian cancer med developer Targovax ASA has doubled its cash and cash equivalents as of 31 December 2016 by raising NOK200m (€21m) in a private placement of new shares.
German Grünenthal Group has entered into an agreement to acquire the global rights to AstraZeneca’s migraine treatment Zolmitriptan.
Belgian liquid biopsy specialist Biocartis Group NV has announced it will co-develop a breast cancer assay with MRC Technology.
German Merck KGaA has secured an option on UK’s F-Star Biotechnology Ltd’s preclinical bispecific PD-L1/LAG checkpoint inhibitor FS118 and four candidates in discovery stage.
Cambridge-based cancer company Bicycle Therapeutics has raised £40m to advance its clinical pipeline of peptide-based conjugates with antibody-like binding properties.
UK-based drug developers and contract manufacturers are set to find partners in the European Economic Area (EEA) to uphold Orphan Drug Designation, MAA or transfer their current UK based site of batch release to a location established in the Union.