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Belgian UCB SA and British Cancer UK have started a second clinical study within their multi-year partnership to evaluate the safety and tolerable dose of UCB4594 in patients with advanced cancers.

Swiss cancer and auto-immunity specialist ImmunOs Therapeutics AG has closed a Series C financing round of US$11m led by existing investors Gimv, Pfizer Ventures, Mission BioCapital, BioMed Partners and supported by new investor Double Point Ventures.

A Phase III trial evaluating AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s potential “blockbuster” lung cancer drug Dato-DXd showed no significant improvement over standard chemotherapy. Investors reacted quickly: AstraZeneca’s share price dropped 5% following the announcement.

A new £12.5m Series B expansion brings Elipsogen Ltd’s total Series B funds raised to £43.25 million. The IgE antibody specialist will use the roceeds to support the delivery of clinical Proof of Concept for MOv18 IgE.

Good news for BioNTech SE: The safety study of the ADC BNT326/YL202 developed by MediLink Therapeutics, which was suspended by the FDA in mid-June, will continue.

The US Food & Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Adaptimmune’s Tecelra as the world’s first therapy with genetically engineered T cells to fight a solid tumour.

With an investment of its venture arm (BI-VF), Boehringer Ingelheim underlines its committment to expand the reach of cancer immune therapies. The Series A financing in Chinese Synthetica Pioneering that engineers oncolytic bacteria to deliver toxic payloads or modulators of the tumour environment to solid tumours follows an investment in T3 Pharmaceuticals.

ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE has raised €188m ito boost radiopharma pipeline, contract manufacturing cpacity, and launch ITM-11.

Swiss antibody specialist Memo Therapeutics AG has added CHF20m to  its Series C financing, bringing the total amount raised in the funding round to CHF 45 million.

Flagging of CAR-T cells with the B7H6 protein weakened the response to human leukaemia in models as it marks them for NK cell attack, German researchers report.