Antibiotic resistance tests; the bacteria in the culture on the left are sensitive to the antibiotics contained in the white paper discs. The bacteria on the right are resistant to most of the antibiotics. © Dr Graham Beards  wikipedia.org

Novo Nordisk Foundation has partnered with CARB-X investing US$25m to help SMEs to fight drug-resistant infections.

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Calypso Biotech BV has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Novartis AG, which will pay. Calypso’s US$250m upfront upon closing plus of up to US$175.

FDA Building 31 houses the Office of the Commissioner and the Office of Regulatory Affairs. © U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Following in the footsteps of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the US FDA is now also investigating the side effects of obesity blockbusters.

Boehringer Ingelheim headquarters. © Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Intelheim is expanding its antfibrotics pipeline licencing a first-in-class treatment for fibro-inflammatory diseases from  Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd.

Brown and white fat cells. © Patrick Seale, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine/NIH

Italian Resalis Therapeutics Srl has baged €10m in a Series A financing led by Sunstone Life Science Ventures to complete a Phase I study for RES-010 in obesity.

EM picture of A. baumannii. © Vader1941 - wikipedia.org

Hoffmann-La Roche AG has published details on the mechanism of action of its Phase I antibiotic Zosurabalpin (RG6006) that kills the carbapenem-resistant bug Acinetobacter baumannii.
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Alfasigma manufacturing plant. © N. Biddau/Alfasigma SpA

Following its announcement from Oktober 2023 to take over the filgotinib business from Galapagos NV, Bologna-based Alfasigma SpA has signed the €170m deal.

Discovery Center of AstraZeneca @AstraZeneca

Pharmaceutical giant AstrazZeneca wants to take over the Chinese company Gracell Biotechnologies in order to strengthen its cell therapy projects in a deal worth up to $1.2bn.

In 2021, Metrion Biosciences moved into its labs in Cambridge, UK. © Metrion Biosciences Ltd

Cambridge-based Metrion Biosciences Ltd has secured £3.5m in new equity financing – led by Maven Capital Partners and a £1m contribution from existing investor, Gresham House Ventures.

Under a high magnification of 10,000X, this digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image shows a strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria taken from a vancomycin intermediate resistant culture (VISA). © CDC/Janice Haney Carr

Swiss LimmaTech Biologics and AbVacc Inc have agreed to co-develop AbVacc’s preclinical Staphylococcus aureus vaccine LBT-SA7 (formerly IBT-V02) in case of Phase I success.