Cross-section of the eye. © National Eye Institute.

French drug maker Seabelife SAS will use a €1.5m price money to develop a new dual-acting necroptosis blocker to reduce cell death in geographic atrophy.

Waste based biosurfactants producer Amphistar BV has closed a €6m funding round led by the  European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), Qbic III and Flanders Future Tech Fund (FFTF).

Micrograph captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland © NIH

Vaccine maker Sumagen Co. Ltd has launched a  cGMP manufacturing partnership with French Naobios SAS for clinical testing of Sumagen’s inactivated HIV vaccine candidate.
 

Fermenter within Factory01. © Solar Foods Oy

Finnish Solar Foods Oy has started microbial production of its protein powder Solein in Factory 01, Solar Foods’ first commercial-scale production facility in Vantaa, Finland.

Sepsis patient journey (above) and Adrenomed's solution to the sepsis cascade (below). © Adrenomed AG, Hennigsdorf near Berlin

German AdrenoMed AG has got FDA Fast Track designation for its targeted septic shock medicine enibarcimab that restores endothel integrity.

Neurosense Therapeutics targets Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease but is most advanced in ALS. © Neurosense Therapeutics Ltd

ALS specialist NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd announces it will be collaborating with Swiss Lonza AG to identify exosome-based biomarkers to advance theranostics in neurodegeneration.

Neurosense Therapeutics targets Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease but is most advanced in ALS. © Neurosense Therapeutics Ltd

ALS specialist NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd announces it will be collaborating with Swiss Lonza AG to identify exosome-based biomarkers to advance theranostics in neurodegeneration.

Neuroblastoma cells (green) in the adrenal gland. Cell nuclei are coloured blue. © Charité | Anja Heeren-Hagemann

Essential Pharma has acquired Renaissance Pharma Ltd to commercialise  the company’s Phase II program Hu14.18K322A in pedriatric high-risk neuroblastoma.

BEPO technology embeds a drug into a co-polymer (white). © MedinCell Corp

Global health agency Unitaid has awarded French Medincell Corp (Jacou) an extension grant of up to US$ 6 million over three years to fund thesatety testing of its malaria vaccine mdc-STM.

Antibodies get a second life with the right attachment (payload) (©Genmab A/S, Valby)

Genmab announced today that it will acquire privately held biotech company ProfoundBio for $1.8bn in cash. The deal is designed to help the Danish pharmaceutical company deepen its cancer pipeline with next-generation antibody-drug conjugate therapies where the company has already an inlicensing deal with former Synaffix´s ADC technology platform (which was acquired mid of 2023 by Lonza).