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Italian pharma company Recordati is putting €750m on the table to acquire UK-based specialty pharmaceutical company EUSA Pharma.

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Sanofi is strengthening its vaccine business by acquiring an Austrian company. The French pharma group is taking over skin disease specialist Origrimm Biotechnology.

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US cell & gene therapy manufacturer Orgenesis Inc. announced that its joint venture with Theracell Advanced Biotechnology SA has received €32m in funding by Enterprise Greece.

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The start-up competition @AMR conference supported by INCATE has started. Early-stage ventures fighting drug resistant bacterial infections in the therapeutics or diagnostics area interested to be on stage are invited to apply now! 

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Quell Therapeutics has raised a whopping US$156m from a prestigious investor group in an oversubscribed Series B financing. With the funds, the British biotech wants to hasten its CAR-Treg cell therapy candidate on its way to the clinic.

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Vaccibody rebrands as Nykode Therapeutics and teams up with Regeneron in a vaccine deal potentially worth US$925m.

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The European Commission has inked the pre-purchase agreement over Valneva’s inactivated whole virus pandemic vaccine VLA2001 announed in mid-October.

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Swiss Vifor Pharma is shelling out more than €375m for Mallorca-based Sanifit, a clinical-stage cardio-renal biopharmaceutical company with a single compound in development.

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Novo Nordisk announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dicerna Pharmaceuticals for up to US$ 3.3bn, which is a surcharge of about 80%.

Chemical structure of Pfizer's protease inhibitor Paxlovid, which targets the same binding site at the main protease as a protease inhibitor developed to target the main protease of the SARS virus in 2003 but which was structurally different. © Dr Felix Klatt, BIOCOM AG

Pfizer Inc announced it will  allow generic makers in 95 low income nations to produce and distribute its COVID-19 pill Paxlovid at cost price.