MicroRNA-based therapeutics developer InteRNA Technologies has closed an extended Series B round totaling €18.5m led by AurorA Science, an Italian biotech investment company.
The German Health Ministry has requested €6.2bn from the Federal Ministry of Finance to purchase up to 635 million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
V-Bio Ventures has announced the first closing of its V-Bio Fund 2 at €78m. The fund is focussed on investments into early stage life sciences companies in Belgium and the EU.
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The transatlantic Abingworth Bioventures 8 Fund has been closed at $464m to invest in US, UK and European life science companies.
As rapidly spreading mutants of SARS-CoV-2 are emerging, two Tuebingen-based vaccine developers will develop multivalent COVID-19 vaccines.
German CDMO Rentschler Biopharma is expanding cCMP production of CureVac NVs RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate CVnCoV.
Enthera Pharmaceuticals extends its €28m Series A financing from last July to a total of €35m as Roche Venture Fund joins the companys investor syndicate.
A US subsidiary of Hamburg-based Evotec SE has won a contract from the US government to produce antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
Israels Omnix Medical has been granted €10.8m needed to start Phase I/II development of a potential AMR breaking drug in Gram-negative bugs.
Germany has become the first country in Europe to buy the US emergency-approved COVID-19 antibody therapies from Regeneron and Eli Lilly.