Despite seemingly insurmountable environmental challenges ahead and the many ‘successes’ flaunted by big biorefinery projects, the wider business community remains stubbornly sceptical about developing business within the bio-based paradigm. Now policymakers are pushing financiers to take a bigger stake in its success. New efforts are underway to drive private investment in bioeconomy ventures.

Sygnature Discovery, thas appointed Dr Bill Marathias as Vice President of Business Development for the US to assist with the company’s international growth plans.

French researchers have found a key driver of chronic epilepsy. 

Bavarian Nordic A/S today announced the appointment of Henrik Juuel to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Juuel is currently the CFO of Orexo AB.

Brain disease specialist Denali Therapeutics will buy all outstanding shares in British F-Star Gamma Ltd from F-Star instead licencing bispecific antibody candidates that can cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) co-developed under an agreement dating back to 2016.

Nordic Nanovector ASA today announces that Rainer Boehm, MD was elected as a member of its Board of Directors at the company’s Annual General Meeting on 30 May 2018.

Roche announced that atezolimumab plus chemotherapy met its co-primary endpoints of overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) as first-line treatment of stage IV nonsquamous non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Nouscom, an immuno-oncology company developing off-the-shelf and personalized neoantigen-based genetic cancer vaccines, announced today the appointment of Adrian Woolfson M.D., Ph.D. as Chief Medical Officer (CMO).

Interleukin 1 (IL-1) blockers may prevent serious adverse events triggered by CAR-T cell therapies, according to two independent studies.

Following reports of an increase in mortality in a study that combined Genmab’s anti-CD38 daratumumab with a PD-L1 blocker, Genmab’s partner Janssen has stopped a study combining daratumumab with its PD1 blocker JNJ-63723283 in multiple myeloma.