VIPs at Roche's ceremony (from left to right): 
Digital infrastructure minister Alexander Dobrindt, Dr. Ursula Redeker, spokesperson of the Executive Board at Roche Diagnostics, Dr. Christoph Franz, Chairman of the Administrative Board, Roche AG, Ilse Aigner, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs; and Media, Energy and Technology, Dr. Hagen Pfundner, CEO, Roche Pharma AG, Germany, Jens Spahn, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, © Roche Diagnostics

At the opening ceremony for R&D, training and production buildings at Roche Penzberg, the Pharma giant said that Foundation Medicine (FMI) will establish a digital oncology service at the site offering oncologists across Europe decision support in personalised medicine.

Belgian diagnostics company Biocartis Group NV and Singpore’s A*STAR ETPL have kicked off development of a multimodal breast cancer assay designed to guide therapy selection in personalised medicine.

© 4SC AG

Small molecule cancer drug developer 4SC AG (Planegg-Martinsried, Germany) has completed a capital increase fueling development of its clinical programmes for resminostat, 4SC-202 and 4SC-208

German biotech company Biontech AG has published positive clinical results for its individualised cancer vaccine Ivac mutanome in patients with late-stage melanoma.

Venture capitalist Seventure Partners announced that it has participated in a US$13m financing of Japanese biotech company Anaeropharma Science. The investment is made from Seventure’s Health for Life Capital investment vehicle.

Noxxon's study will be conducted at the National Center for Tumor Diseases in Heidelberg , ©Frank Ockert/NCT

Last December, Noxxon Pharma AG signed an agreement with Merck & Co./MSD to evaluate the synergistic potential of NOXA1/2 and pembrolizumab immune cancer therapy. Now, the companies have kicked off a Phase I/II study in patients with pancreatic and colorectal cancer.

© Ex Scienta Ltd., Dundee

British pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline has secured access to Ex Scientia Ltd (Exscientia)’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery platform.

Follicular lymphoma is the most common type of slow-growing blood cancer. [Credit: E. Oricchio et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017)]

Swiss researchers have found a way to prevent the multiple disease relapses after responses to follicular lymphoma therapy.

In March 2015, Cellectis rang the bell at Nasdaq with an US$228m IPO, © Nasdaq

Genome editing specialist Cellectis has kicked off clinical tests in the US for the very first of-the-shelf CAR-T cell therapy in acute myeloid leukaemia. 

DayTwo's app generates food recommendations specific to the individual gut make-up, like Top Meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. © DayTwo

European venture capitalist Seventure Partners and  Johnson & Johnson have invested US$12m in Israel-based DayTwo. Based on HbA1c, lifestyle factors and genetic analysis of the individual microbiome, the company’s app analyses the individual microbiome to predict blood sugar responses to thousands of different foods.