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.

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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.

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The French Republicans have tabled a bill in the National Assembly aimed at banning the commercialisation of cell-based meat in France.

Aerial view at EFPL where the technology was established. © EFPL

Lausanne-based Vandria SA has cashed in CHF18m in a Series A financing led by ND Capital to drive clinical development of VNA-318.

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Antibiotics specialist Antabio SAS has raised €25m in a Series B financing round with subscriptions from the AMR Action Fund, the EIC Fund and from existing investors.