The European Investment Bank has lend up to €10m to Polish microbial diagnostics specialist Scope Fluidics AS.

Roche has announced to launch a SARS-CoV-2 point-of-care antigen test this month co-developed with SD Biosensor Inc. (South Korea).

Unilever has announced to invest €1bn globally to eliminate fossil fuels as a source of carbon in its cleaning products by 2030. 

With around 450 attendees, the five-day digital conference particularly focused on market conditions and financing. SMEs and global partners urged for more pull incentives.

Swiss BioVersys AG has secured a CHF19m Series B financing to push clinincal development of two antiinfectives against drug-resistant pathogens.

PPF-owned company SOTIO has acquired the rights to use the BOXR CAR-T platform and products from Cambridge-based Unum Therapeutics.

Polyphor AG has licenced its metastatic cancer drug balixafortide to Fosun Pharma Co Ltd to market the drug exclusively in China.
 

British fibrosis therapeutics start-up Engitix Ltd has entered a collaboration agreement  with Takeda to develop anti-fibrotic therapies in liver diseases.

US experiemental mRNA vaccine maker Moderna Inc is in advanced talks with the European Commission to supply 80 million doses mRNA-1273, its candidate vs SARS-CoV-2

Scientists from Leuven, Rotterdam  and San Diego have published a sequencing-based map of ulcerative colitis paving the way to new treatments.