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Claudia Ulbrich, MD, CEO und Prof. Thomas Thum, MD, PhD, CSO/CMO at Cardior Pharmaceuticals. © Cardior Pharmaceuticals

Novo Nordisk is set to acquire German miRNA blocker specialist Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH for up to €1.025bn including milestone payments.

Treatment with the agonistic TREM2 antibody 4D9 leads to the formation of smaller necrotic cores (red outlines) in atherosclerotic plaques of the aortic root in Ldlr-/- mice. © Nature Cardiovascular Research

TREM2, a receptor on the surface of macrophages, reduces necrotic core formation in early atherosclerosis, a German-Austrian reseach team reports.

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Andera Partners, Paris based European private equity player, announced on Wednesday that, together with RA Capital Management, it is leading an oversubscribed and up-sized $118m Series B financing for Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc., Philadelphia (USA), a private, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company  developing novel therapy for the treatment of hypertension.