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.

Intellectual Property Providing access to medicines at affordable prices while maintaining incentives for the originators to invest into significant innovations is a balance that’s hard to find. Product hopping is a strategy for originators to minimise the erosion of their sales that has caught the attention of regulators and courts.

Intellectual Property Providing access to medicines at affordable prices while maintaining incentives for the originators to invest into significant innovations is a balance that’s hard to find. Product hopping is a strategy for originators to minimise the erosion of their sales that has caught the attention of regulators and courts.

Dutch Halix BV will manufacture a ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford .

Carrie Brownstein has started as the new Chief Medical Officer at Cellectis, a French biopharmaceutical company.

Immatics Biotechnologies has landed a potential US$1.1bn deal with GlaxoSmith­Kline (GSK) to find novel cancer targets on solid tumours and to direct TCR-T cell therapies against them. European Biotechnology spoke with Dr Harpreet Singh, CEO of Immatics Biotechnologies.

For years, French Carbios SAS has worked to set up a process that effectively depolymerizes PET, one of the most common plastics. Now its process has been published.

Molecular diagnostics specialist Mobidiag Ltd has got emergency approval for its Amplidiag® COVID-19 molecular diagnostic test in Finland.

With the coronavirus pandemic mounting, experts are warning of AMR as being the next, hidden crisis. 

British researchers have tabled a phylogenetic tree showing different subtypes of SARS-CoV-2 developed in Asia, Europe and the US.