
NK cell therapy company NK:IO raises seed money
London-based UK New Cancer Therapeutics award winner (£1.6m) NK:IO Ltd has raised £1.2M bringing total equity financing to £3.2m. This,...

Gleamer raises €27m in Series B funding round
Gleamer SAS’ financing round was led by Supernova Invest, co-led by Heal Capital and backed by Gleamer’s long-term partners XAnge, Elaia, Bpifrance...

More marine plastics than expected
Researchers led by Mikael Kaandorp from German FZ Jülich and colleagues from Utrecht University report that plastic pieces larger than 2.5 cm, which...

Donaldson Acquires Belgian Univercells Technologies for €138m
Headquartered in Nivelles, Belgium, Univercells Technologies employs over 100 people worldwide. The company has been acquired for a cash...

CEPI commits up to US$80m to University of Oxford to develop vaccines
The US$80m strategic partnership of CEPI, which was established in 2016 in the wake of the Ebola virus outbreak in west Africa, the University of...

Evotec earns US$40m in global licence deal with BMS
Under a potential US$4bn iPSC-based drug discovery partnership in neurodegeneration with Evotec SE, originally signed in 2016 through Celgene,...

Novo Nordisk takes over Inversago Pharma Inc.
As competiion for Novo Nordisk A/S’ subcutanously administered blockbuster GLP1-receptor blocker semaglutide is growing, particularly as an obesity...