A Dutch-German resarch team together with Evotec SE have presented a new class of vancomycin derivatives with good safety profile that kill multi-resistant, Gram-positive bugs.
Sangamo Therapeutics IncAfter Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. presented an epigenetic ZFN-based repressor at ASGCT 2024 that reduces the expression of the tau protein in the hippocampus by 95% in Alzheimer’s models, Roche’s US subsidiary Genentech has licensed the experimental gene therapy.
Carbios SASFrench bioplastics recycling specialist Carbios SAS and British recycling and waste management company FCC Environment want to establish a PET biorecycling facility in the UK.
Adaütimmune LtdThe US Food & Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Adaptimmune’s Tecelra as the world’s first therapy with genetically engineered T cells to fight a solid tumour.
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, AFIPFrench-Austrian vaccine maker Valneva SE has secured exclusive worldwide rights to commercialise LimmaTech Biologics AG’s S4V Shigella vaccine that will be tested in two Phase II trials starting in H2/2024.
SIATWith an investment of its venture arm (BI-VF), Boehringer Ingelheim underlines its committment to expand the reach of cancer immune therapies. The Series A financing in Chinese Synthetica Pioneering that engineers oncolytic bacteria to deliver toxic payloads or modulators of the tumour environment to solid tumours follows an investment in T3 Pharmaceuticals.
Maxwell Hamilton - wikipedia.orgAs one of the last Big Pharma companies, GlaxoSmithKline plc has inked a drug discovery licence option deal for up to 10 programmes with US-based biotech platform company supplier Flagship Pioneering Inc.
Romain BuissonNot the German InFamily Foods subsidiary The Cultivated B, but Gourmey SAS, founded in Paris in 2019 by Antoine Davydoff, Nicolas Morin-Forest and Victor Sayous, has submitted the first EU authorisation application for a cell-based meat product, a duck liver pâté (Foie gras), to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Confo Therapeutics NVBelgian GPCR specialist Confo Therapeutics NV has raised €60m in an Series B financing round led by Ackermans & van Haaren to advance clinical development of two clinical programmes and preclinical candidates to treat rare endocrine diseases and obesity.
AC Immune SASwiss AC Immune and its partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc have been granted FDA Fast Track Designation for their active anti-pTau vaccine ACI-35.030/JNJ-2056 to treat Alzheimer’s disease.