Takeda bids €520m for TiGenixJapanese Pharma major Takeda had announced its intention to take over Belgian adipose stem cell therapy specialist Tigenix, which has already exclusively licenced its lead product darvadstrocel (Cx601) … more ➔
Boehringer Ingelheim expands Venture Funds... German human and veterinay medicines major Boehringer Ingelheim has more than doubled the amount in funding of its Venture Fund (BIVF) to €250m. Additionally, the investment focus has been extended … more ➔
Addex inks US$339m deal with IndiviorSwiss allosteric modulation specialist Addex Therapeutics has licenced its GABA modulator ADX71441 to US addiction therapeutics expert Indivior plc. more ➔
Diabetes drug halts Alzheimer’s A triple receptor agonist developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer’s after scientists found it "significantly reversed memory loss" in mice through a triple mode of action. more ➔
What’s up in 2018?There is a lot of reports on technologies that have already entered the mainstream and will continue to grow in 2018 such as T-cell receptor targeted cancer, autoimmune and gene therapies. European Biotechnology … more ➔
Cancer senescence: licence to killTherapy-induced senescence (TIS), a lasting chemotherapy-evoked proliferative arrest of tumor cells, has been thought to be irreversible. As it turns out now, it makes tumour cells, which survive, more … more ➔
Sheets of eye cells improve retina repairScientists have generated sheets of human eye cells arranged on a biological scaffold, which they used to successfully treat vision disorders in rats. more ➔
Roche does not have to pay US$685m fineThe European Commission has closed its very first infringement procedure under the Penalty Regulation. During an inspection at Roche’s UK headquarters in 2012 the British MHRA found data on 80,000 not … more ➔
A new fund from the northHadean Ventures announced the launch of Hadean Capital I, a fund that will invest up to € 100 m in life science companies, with a particular focus on the Nordic region. more ➔
CHMP recommends EU approval of seven medic...The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended seven medicines for approval at its December 2017 meeting, including two orphan medicines, and one b … more ➔
