Cologne-based Disco Pharmaceuticals GmbH has closed its seed financing at €36m. The company will use the proceeds to advance its surfaceome-mapping platform, developing bispecific ADCs and T-Cell Engagers for hard-to-treat cancers.
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Orano Med and Roche have launched a clinical development programme for CEA‑targeted two‑step PRIT using lead‑212, with Orano supplying the ²¹²Pb, while Novartis and ITM are expanding production of alpha‑emitting radiopharmaceuticals.
California-based biotech Electra Therapeutics Inc has secured US$183m in Series C financing. The investment comes from a consortium of four European investors and Mubadala Capital. Contrary to some reports, more SIRPα modulators exist than the investors initially indicated.
Munich-Martinsried-based biotech Tubulis has closed a €308 million (USD 361 million) Series C financing round – the largest of its kind for a still existing European biotechnology company at the Series C stage and also the world’s largest financing for a private ADC (antibody–drug conjugate) developer. The attractivity lays in the technologyplatform of linking the payload.
Owlstone Medical, a pioneer in breath-based diagnostics from Cambridge (UK), has been awarded up to US$49.1m by the U.S. health innovation agency ARPA-H under its POSEIDON programme. The funding backs development of a synthetic-sensor MCED test capable of detecting over 30 solid tumours at Stage I using breath and urine samples, intended for at-home, over-the-counter use. But will ARPA-H be committed to funding if the restructuring of NIH and HHS in the US is moving in a different direction?
British company Sitala Bio Ltd, founded in 2021 by NLRP3 inflammasome expert Matt Cooper, is paying US$670m and giving up to 10% of its shares to Chinese company Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. in exchange for the development and marketing rights to the low-molecular-weight inflammation blocker FXS6837.
Bayer AG’s Pharmaceuticals division in Berlin has expanded its oncology pipeline through a licensing and collaboration agreement with US-based Kumquat Biosciences Inc., which may yield up to US$1.3bn in total consideration. Should Kumquat successfully complete its high-risk Phase Ia clinical study targeting the common KRAS G12D mutation, Bayer will assume responsibility for further development and global commercialisation of the candidate.
Paris-based One Biosciences, a pioneering “techbio” company at the intersection of artificial intelligence and oncology, has announced a €15 million Series A funding round to accelerate the clinical application of its flagship technology.
BioNTech is set to open a research centre for cancer therapy in the United Kingdom, much to the delight of the British government, which is helping pave the way with a substantial financial boost.
Boehringer Ingelheim and synthetic lethality specialist Tessellate Bio have entered into an €500m biobucks global license agreement on oral first-in-class cancer treatments.


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