TWB announces winners in industrial biotech start-up contestAt the end of the TWB Start-up day, which was attended by more than 200 biotech professionals, two industrial biotechnology companies were awarded prizes worth €50,000. more ➔
BIONTech breaks ground for manufacturing site in RwandaBioNTech SE has announced it is going to ship the first containers for mRNA malaria vaccine production from this year’s end toKigall. more ➔
Cannabis players Canify AS and Bavaria Weed merge to form Canify AGIn an effort to become a major player in Europe’s growing pharmaceutical-grade cannabis market, Danish Canify AS and Bavaria Weed GmbH merge to form Canify AG. more ➔
Unilever launches $120m venture with GenomaticaUnder the $120m deal, Genomatica and Unilever will scale plant- and waste-based alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels. more ➔
Roche obtains special authorisation for bispecific antibodyRoche obtained from European Medicine Agency (EMA) a special authorization (conditional approval) for new bispecific antibody Lunsumio for treatment of relapsed or refractory follicular (R/R) lymphoma … more ➔
Andera Partners, Imcheck therapeutics, Kurma, marseille, Pfizer, wellington French ImCheck get´s a USD103m check by Pfizer and a pack of VCs ImCheck Therapeutics located in Marseille, France, announced today the close of a EUR 96 million (USD 103 million) financing, co-led by Earlybird and Andera Partners. Kurma Partners, Eurazeo, Gimv, … more ➔
$50m for London CHARM Therapeutics for deep minded folding expertise CHARM Therapeutics launches with a $50 million Series A financing to transform structure-based drug discovery using its proprietary DragonFold AI technology. more ➔
Biotalys’ first proteinbased biocontrol shows up in vineyards Based on data from the latest trials in grapes across vineyards in diverse climates throughout California and New York, Biotalys’ biocontrol product Evoca provided superior preventative control of Botrytis … more ➔
Pixabay.com Andera Partners, Heart, Hypertension, investment, Paris, Philadelphia, Rothschild, Venture Capital Andera Partners co-leads $118m Series B of Mineralys thx (USA) Andera Partners, Paris based European private equity player, announced on Wednesday that, together with RA Capital Management, it is leading an oversubscribed and up-sized $118m Series B financing for … more ➔
bioeconomy, circular economy, circularity, sustainable, Vamos, Wales, waste to value From waste to sugar – demonstration plant opens in Wales The South Wales-based demonstration plant "VAMOS" that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come … more ➔