The South Wales-based demonstration plant "VAMOS" that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online these days. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials.

The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, which is associated with the WHO and UN, will locate its European office in Stockholm. To date, the institute is only located in the host country of South Korea.

The financing (around €19m) shall fully fund the commencement of a potentially pivotal/registrational Phase 2/3 study for KL1333 and its progression to the outcome of a key interim analysis.

Transine Therapeutics Ltd has added £4.6m from lead investor Epidarex Capital and the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) to its £9.1m seed funding led by Takeda Ventures and DDF. 

Minoryx Therapeutics SL has closed a €51m financing, including Series C equity financing and complementary bank debt to commercialise X-ALD drug leriglitazone.

G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers have announced a wide range of actions to tackle “the triple global crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution".
 

Ellipses Pharma and SunRock Biopharma enter into a licensing agreement for a first-in-class bifunctional HER3:TRAIL fusion protein set to eliminate solid tumours.

Hamburg-based CRO Evotec SE has inked a drug development partnership with Spanish Almirall SA in dematology.

Avantium NV will get a €3m EU funding for a feasibility study of the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to consumer products.

Biocatalysis expert Enzymaster (Germany, China, Singapore) has cashed in $45m to expand its production capacity of engineered biosynthetic enzymes.