Newron terminates sarizotan development in...Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A.s Sarizotan failed to meet efficacy endpoints in the Phase III STARS study. more ➔
Roche gets FDA okay for COVID-19 antibody...Roche Diagnostics has received FDA Emergency use approval for its highly specific Elecsys antibody test. more ➔
Bone Therapeutics bags €11mBelgian Bone Therapeutics SA has secured €11m to foster development of its late stage pipeline candidates. more ➔
Cevec launches ELEVECTA platformCevec Pharmaceuticals GmbH has launched a new, scalable production platform for AAV gene therapy vectors. more ➔
Artes enters COVID-19 vaccine raceGerman vaccine developer ARTES Biotechnology GmbH will develop a COVID-19 subunit vaccine based on virus-like particles (VLP), which include two proteins of SARS-CoV-2. more ➔
Bayer, Novartis, and Trump convicted by Na...The politically overhyped use of old malaria drugs in combination with COVID-19-specific candidates has been demonstrated to be dangerous, reports Nature Medicine. more ➔
Drug from worms dampens autoimmune respons...German researchers have isolated a substance from parasitic roundworm larvae to alleviate inflammation and treat asthma in a rodent model. more ➔
Swiss biotech sector with robust growth Last year, the biotechnology sector in Switzerland has continued its growth and proved to be a magnet for fresh capital and investment. This is revealed by the Swiss Biotech Report 2020. more ➔
COVID-19: Novartis starts study on hyped m...Up to today, Novartis and Bayer announced donations of several millions of old antimalaria pills based on anecdotical reports of efficacy in COVID-19 patients. Now Novartis has started a study. more ➔
COVID 19: Halix ready for vaccine producti...Dutch Halix BV will manufacture a ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford . more ➔