Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have signed an agreement with the European Commission (EC) to supply an additional 200 million doses of BNT162b2 to the EU.
A resesarch team headed by HepaRegeneriX Board Member Lars Zender has presented a new approach to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by disturbing the lipid metabolism of tumour cells.
Cell therapy specialist Cytovia Therapeutics Inc and genome editing expert Cellectis SAS partner to develop iPSC-derived natural killer (NK) cell-based cancer therapies.
Cellink AB will take over all shares of Ginolis Oy, a Finnish company focusing on diagnostics automation and advanced robotics solutions for medical and diagnostic industries.
CDMO Rentschler Biopharma will establish a Center of Excellence for cell and gene therapy through a new UK subsidiary Rentschler ATMP Ltd.
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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Jeyaratnam Caniceus/Pixabay.comThe 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.