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.

Rare disease specialist SynaptixBio Ltd has got its second FDA orphan drug designation for a subtype of TUBB4A leukodystrophy.

Pierre Fabre Médicament SAS has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) over pan-RAF programs developed by Kinnate Biopharma Inc.

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