Eylea met Phase III endpoint in diabetic r... VEGF blocker Eylea (aflibercept), which is co-developed for eye diseases by Bayer HealthCare and Regeneron under a deal signed in 2006, has met the 24-week primary endpoint of the pivotal Panorama Phase … more ➔
Lundbeck acquiring Prexton in €905m dealH. Lundbeck A/S has announced it will acquire Dutch Prexton Therapeutics B.V., a one-programme company developing the allosteric metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 4 (mGluR4) modulator foliglurax … more ➔
Stroke alarmin spurs further emboliesResearchers from Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Germany report that expression of a post-stroke factor boost arterial plaque formation. The identification of the new target might open up an … more ➔
Algorithm tracks cancer type down to methy...Researchers have applied a self-learning algorithm to distinguish the almost 100 brain cancer types through their methylation pattern in a routine diagnostic setting. The method eliminates inter-pathologist … more ➔
Business as usual in AmsterdamThe tremendous success of last year’s BIO Europe Spring in Barcelona was hard to beat. But the follow-up this year in Amsterdam organised by EBD Group together with Health Holland crystallised as … more ➔
MYR Pharma completes chronic hepatitis del...German MYR Pharma has completed a proof of concept Phase IIb trial with its first-in-class hepatitis D entry inhibitor Myrcludex B, which is developed under the European Medicines Agency’s PRIME … more ➔
Sanofi’s alirocumab improves cardiov...Alirocumab, Sanofi’ s/Regeneron’s PCSK9 inhibitor, in combination with statins has met the endpoint of reducing the number of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) over statin monotherapy … more ➔
Medimmune finds target against systemic sc...Researchers at Medimmune, AstraZeneca’s biologics arm, have identified a mechanism that drives the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. more ➔
Bioprocessing challenges in the focusAbout 300 bioeconomy experts from science and business came together in Strasbourg for the first edition of BIOKET to discuss up-scaling challenges, new processing technologies as well as the potential … more ➔
Sanofi to outsource antiinfectives R&...Evotec and Sanofi want to create an Evotec-led infectious disease open innovation R&D platform at Sanofi’s antiinfectives hub in Lyon. Talks are expected to close in H1/2018 with an option agree … more ➔
