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French Antabio receives funding by the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X). Including future milestone payments, Antabio is eligible for up to €7.6m for their treatment of chronic infections in cystic fibrosis patients.

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French vaccines expert Valneva SE announced that the FDA has granted Fast Track designation for its Lyme borreliosis vaccine candidate VLA15.

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After 3 years of collaboration Roche has ended a cancer deal with the Spanish biotech company Oryzon granting the rights to their cancer candidate ORY-1001.

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Belgian nanobody-developer Ablynx NV now also works together with French pharma company Sanofi. The deal is potentially worth €2.4bn but comes with an upfront payment of just €23m. The partners will initially focus on therapeutics for the treatment of various immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.

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Swiss biopharmaceutical company Novimmune grants pharma company Shire a worldwide license to develop and commercialise a pre-clinical bispecific antibody candidate for haemophilia A.

The UK government has set up a new fund to support medical innovation. Breakthrough innovations that have the potential to benefit the NHS will also undergo accelerated access review aimed at speeding up access to novel medicines. 

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Following a safety warning of the EMA on deaths related to Biogen’s multiple scleroisis (MS) drug Zinbryta (daclizumab), German regulatory authority has issued a red hand letter.

German researchers have found that the lung microbiome is indicative for different subtypes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 

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The Food and Drug Administration has granted US market approval to Janssen Biotech/MorphoSys’ IL23 blocker guselkumab (Temfya) as therapy for moderate to severe psoriasis.

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Swiss Novartis is about to receive the very first market approval (BLA) for a CAR-T cell cancer therapy globally. The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) recommended approval of CTL019 (tisagenlecleucel) for the treatment of the orphan B-cell blood cancer ALL.