Roche’s anti-PD-L1 fails in bladder...Fiasco in Phase III: Roche’s conditionally approved PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor did not meet the endpoint of overall survival vs chemotherapy in a confirmatory study with pre-treated patients with metastatic … more ➔
Dermtreat bags €16.2m financingMucosal inflammation specialist Dermtreat ApS (Copenhagen) has secured a Series A financing worth €16.2m (US$17.7m). more ➔
GMO acreage growingGMO world market adoption is further growing. GMO cultivation area in 2016 increased to 185.1 million hectares versus 2015 (179.7m hectares), 3% up globally, and from 116,870 in 2015 to 136,363 hectares, … more ➔
Another great year for Swiss biotech With an impressive 11.7% growth in sales compared with 2015, the Swiss biotech sector has grown more strongly in 2016 than the years before. However, after three years of growth, Swiss biotech companies … more ➔
German biotech on the riseThe Biotechnology in Germany is a growth engine. According to a new report, all key figures such as employees, turnover and R&D expenditure were at an all-time high in 2016. more ➔
€37.5 million for Vivet TherapeuticsThe french biotechnology company Vivet Therapeutics has raised €37.5 million in a Series A financing round. Amongst others, Novartis Venture Fund and Roche Venture Fund were involved. more ➔
Boehringer leads Series A of French Imchec... The Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund leads a financing consortium that collected €20m for French cancer therapy developer Imcheck. The Marseille-based company also presented its new CEO. … more ➔
Abivax’ shares jump on new Phase IIa... The French biotech said that its lead therapeutic candidate demonstrated the first reduction in HIV reservoirs ever observed in chronically infected HIV patients. Following the news, the company’s share … more ➔
Verona Pharma raised US-$77.8m at NASDAQ British respiratory disease specialist Verona Pharma plc (VRNA) has raised US-$77.8m (€73,96m) at NASDAQ through the issuance of 5,768,000 American Depositary Shares (ADS) – each ADS representing … more ➔
Epigenomics in €171m take-over Epigenomics and minority shareholder Cathay Fortune International Company have agreed for Cathay to take over the Berlin-based diagnostics company for €7.52 per share – a premium of almost 50%. more ➔
