
Janssen to pledge COVID-19 vaccine to African Union
The announcement follows a contract signed last year with the global vaccine alliance Gavi to deliver up to 500 million doses of JNJ’ adenoviral...

EMA starts rolling review for Sputnik V vaccine
The EU applicant for Gam-COVID-Vac is R-Pharm Germany GmbH. The CHMP’s decision to start the rolling review is based on results from laboratory...

Biomarker identifies high-risk COVID-19 patients
The findings of virologists headed by Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl from the Medical University Vienna may pave the way to early identification of...

PCR-test reveals risk of genotoxity of genome editing
The new method called single targeted linker-mediated PCR sequencing (CAST-Seq), developed at University Hospital Freiburg, Germany, is set to become...

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...

EU life science PPPs face less budget in Horizon Europe
The EU’s Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), which have been under fire by the European Parliament and were renamed into ‘European Partnerships‘, are...

BioVersys gets €20m EIB loan to develop novel antibiotics
The venture debt loan is financed under the Infectious Diseases Finance Facility set up as part of Horizon 2020, the European Union’s research and...