Sofinnova Partners has raised €165m within its biotech acceleration fund Biovelocita II that attracted investments fromBig Pharma including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Pfizer Ventures.

Dr Sonya Montgomery joined OSE Immunotherapeutics SA, based in Nantes, France, as Chief Development Officer.

At the third attempt, the Polish Council Presidency has broken the resistance of the member states against the deregulation of crops produced by new genomic technologies (NGT). The new draft will enter trilogue discussions in April.

Spanish SpliceBio has dosed the first patient with SB-007, the first dual AAV gene therapy in clinical development for Stargardt disease

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has selected eight companies to participate in a two-year regulatory programme set to speed up market approval and safety assessment of cell-cultivated products.

Roche is extending its obesity pipeline signing a US$5.3bn biobucks deal with Zealand Pharma A/S, who will co-develop and co-commercialise a monotherapy of its long-acting amylin analogue petrelintide with the Swiss pharma giant in the US and Europe and do the same for a combo of petrelintide and Roche’s GLP1/GIP receptor agonist CTT388.

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Novo Nordisk A/S’ combined GLP1-, amylin- and calcitonin receptor agonist CagriSema has failed to meet the expected 25% weight loss within 68 weeks in the second of four pivotal Phase III trials. Shares in Novo Nordisk closed down 8% after the data became public.

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Roche researchers have introduced a greatly improved long-read nanopore sequencing method that has the potential to erase the sequencing-by-synthesis approach of market leader Illumina.