
Pfizer-Seagen: Acquisition in the works
As announced earlier this week, Pfizer Inc. plans to purchase Seagen for US$43bn. The Boards of Directors of both companies approved the transaction...

Oculis lists at Nasdaq through SPAC merger
Upon closing of the $104m SPAC deal with European Biotech Acquisition Corp, Oculis had a pro-forma enterprise value of approximately $220m and a cash...

Confo Therapeutics and Lilly partner to advance CFTX-1554
Under the agreement, Confo Therapeutics BV got a $40m upfront and milestone payments totalling $590m for licencing its clinical stage angiotensin II...

Evidence of deliberate climate damage
For decades, some members of the fossil fuel industry tried to convince the public that a causative link between fossil fuel use and climate warming...

First allogeneic cancer immunotherapy hits market
On December 20th, the European Commission approved Tabelecleucel (EbvalloTM) as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult and paediatric patients who...

HOOKIPA bags US$10m cancer milestone
The Vienna-based arenavirus specialist got the non-dilutive milestone payment for advancing its drug programme HB-700, a novel arenaviral...

5 Alarm Bio Ltd raises £500K in seed round
Cambridge Angels, Meltwind, o2h Ventures, SyndicateRoom, as well as other angel investors participated in Five Alarm Bio’s (FAB) seed round with...