
EU orders 100 million additional doses from Biontech
To avoid supply shortages that could occur as a result of restricted use of adenoviral COVID-19 vaccines, the European Commission has acquired...

Step Pharma SAS raises €35m in Series B
The financing round of the French drug development company was co-led by new investors Hadean Ventures and Sunstone Life Science Ventures with...

German antibodies in demand in USA
Initially, Seattle-based Just - Evotec Biologics will receive US$28.6m from the Defense Health Agency ("DHA") under a partnership announced...

Roche Phase III study misses COVID-19 endpoint
In the Phase III REMDACTA trial, the Swiss pharma major combined its cytokine storm blocker tocolizumab with Gilead Science’s viral transcription...

CAC builds biofuel plant for OMV
CAC has been assigned by OMV with overall responsibility for the construction of a biofuel plant in which biogenic input materials are processed...

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 differently
Using X-ray crystallography, Sebastian Günther and colleagues screened more than 5,000 drug compounds, identified seven compounds that bind to Mpro,...

MosaMeat BV closes US$85m Series B financing
While EU policymakers are yet discussing the green deal or farm to fork strategies, Dutch MosaMeat BV is launching a new era of biotechnologically...