Valneva raises US$85mFrench vaccine developer Valneva SA will raise $85m in a financing arrangement with Deerfield and OrbiMed and go Nasdaq to co-fund its Lyme disease programme. more ➔
EMA greenlights 15 new medsThe EMAs human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended fifteen medicines for approval at its January 2020 meeting. more ➔
Sleeping sickness target deciphered Researchers at the University of Luebeck have revealed the structure of the IMP dehydrogenase, a central target of T. brucei, which causes sleeping sickness. more ➔
UK researchers present dengue virus transm...Scientists at Imperial College London have created a worldwide atlas of dengue virus transmission with much higher spatial resolution than any previous regional- or global-scale estimates. more ➔
AMR: IMIs Enable project reaches endpoin...The ENABLE project has achieved its initial goals to identify three antibacterial leads, select two antibacterial development candidates and advance one compound into Phase I development. more ➔
MercachemSyncom, Bionetix, and ProQinase i...Bionetix, ProQinase, and MercachemSyncom have announced that they will jointly develop a new AML drug, from target identification to clinical testing more ➔
iOnctura SA bags €15m in Series A roundMerck KGaAs 2017 Swiss cancer spin-out iOnctura SA has raised €15m to bring its PI3K? inhibitor and autotaxin inhibitor to the clinic. more ➔
Agriculture ministers commit to global tra...Ministers from 72 countries came together at the Berlin Agriculture Ministers conference to discuss and adopt a joint communiqué on global trade. In it, the ministers agreed to strengthen rule-based … more ➔
HepaRegeniX: €11m for liver disease trea...HepaRegeniX has raised €11m in a Series B. The biotech company will use the proceeds to bring its compound targeting chronic liver disease to the clinic. more ➔
Nestlé heavily invests in sustainable pac... Swiss food giant Nestlé will invest up to €1.68bn to support sustainable packaging solutions and to create a market for plastic-free or recycled alternatives. more ➔