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InDex Pharmaceuticals needs a new COO. After ten years as Chief Operating Officer, Pernilla Sandwall will leave the Stockolm-based company at the end of April.

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Antimicrobial resistance specialist Centauri Therapeutics Ltd has closed a £24m Series A round to identify novel therapeutic candidates using the Alphamer technology.

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Curve Therapeutics has inked a contract with US pharma giant Merck & Co. (MSD) to screen novel small molecule drug candidates against five MSD targets.

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Newton Biocapital has launched a new life sciences fund with initial capital commitments of €50m and a target size of €150m.

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European investment firm LSP has closed its European life sciences fund LSP at €1 bn. Additionally, a €10bn fund of funds was greenlighted at the EU Council in Paris.

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AiCuris will pay up to €100m to Dutch Hybridize Therapeutics BV for the development of antisense RNA therapeutics that stop BK viraemia in renal transplant patients.

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Laurence Riot Lamotte has started at the beginning of 2022 als new Chief Financial Officer of French Diaccurate. She succeeds José Da Gloria, who left the company.

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AGC Biologics supports BioNTech’s manufacturing of an Omicron-based vaccine with plasmids for in vitro transcription.

The EIB and the EIF will manage the new Fund. © EIB

EU Members States agreed on Tuesday to launch the pan-European Scale-up Initiative, which is aimed to provide €10bn for late-state tech companies.

Protix' industrial scale production site in the Netherlands. © Protix BV

Dutch insect protein specialist Protix has raised €50m for expansion and development from international investors and the ECBF.