Life sciences tool provider Abcam plc has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BioVision, Inc. for $340m.

Cancer and autoimmunity specialist Byondis BV and carbohydrate-targeting antibody company Glycotope have entered into a platform access agreement.

Cancer specialist Artios Pharma has raised $153m in a Series C Financing led by Omega Funds and TCG X to progress its clinical pipeline.

AXA IM Alts has raised €1.9bn of equity to accelerate investments into the Life Sciences sector.

Synaffix has nonexclusivey licensed its award-winning ADC technologies to Chinese ProfoundBio in an up to $246m deal

Italian venture capital firm Panakès Partners, previously active in medtech, has closed the €150m “purple” fund with the goal to invest in “underserved” European Life Science companies.

Mainz-based BioNTech is expanding its portfolio for cancer therapies with the neoantigen TCR Cell Therapy R&D pipeline and manufacturing site from Gilead Science subsidiary Kite Pharmaceuticals.

Coventry-based NanoSyrinx plc has raised £6.2m in seed financing to develop a new cell engineering tool for novel targeted therapeutic modalities.

Dutch immunotherapy company ISA Pharmaceuticals has closed a €26m funding round that will go towards advancing its therapy targeting HPV16-related cancers.

As part of its ‘Clean Future’ strategy, Unilever NV has licensed enzyme technology from Arzeda Inc. to help rid detergent production of fossil carbon.