
New EU stakeholder platform to speed up clinical trials
Following strong criticism ahead of the mandatory launch of the CTIS electronic clinical trial reporting portal by the European Medicines Agency...

BioNTech and Ryvu Therapeutics enter into global collaboration
BioNTech SE and Ryvu Therapeutics S.A. announced that the companies have entered into a multi-target research collaboration targeting immune...

Roche withdraws checkpoint blocker from the market
Switzerland’s Hoffmann La Roche AG no longer markets its cancer immunotherapy atezolizumab (Tecentriq) for the treatment of urothelial carcinoma in...

New polymer can stop biofilm formation
The acrylate co-polymer reported by Jean-Frédéric Dubern and colleagues in Science Advances (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add7474) have the potential to...

Rewind Therapeutics extends Series A financing
The company, founded by CD3 (Leuven, Belgium) and Axxam S.p.A. (Milan), did not want to reveal the exact amount added to the €15.2m in its 2018...

EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals pushes COPD candidate
The Icelandic inflammation specialist received regulatory approval for its Phase IIa trial of Barriolide™ (EP395) in patients with Chronic...

Benefits of booster campaigns questionable
While Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE financial outlooks in February prognosed more than $50bn in combined coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine sales in...