LSP has closed its  LSP 6 fund at the $600m hard cap. It is the largest fund ever raised in Europe focused on life sciences ventures.

Pest control specialist Biotalys NV has raised an additional €10m to its series C financing bringing its amount to €45m.

Researchers from German Fraunhofer IGBI have used  next-generation sequencing (NGS) to diagnosis sepsis from tiny amounts of microbial DNA in the blood. 

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has announced a €45m funding for the development of therapeutics and diagnostics to tackle coronavirus outbreaks.

With the financing led by General Atlantic, the British company wants to expand a novel platform and advance its ImmTAX™ pipeline to the clinic.

High amounts of injected vitamin C may delay the growth of many types of tumours and boost the anticancer power of immune checkpoint therapies, report Italian oncologists.

Roche AG‘s has paid US$30m upfront in a potential US$1.7bn deal to get access to Bicycle Therapeutics plc’s technology platform to target immune checkpoints.

Researchers at Trinity College in Dublin have demonstrated that resetting brain-specific immune cells improves traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery.
 

Negotiations of the EU Council on the EU’s seven-year budget have failed, putting R&D funding at risk for significant cuts.

Royal DSM NV has entered the growing market of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) taking over the producer of recombinant 2’-fucosyl lactose, Danish Glycom A/S.