
Bioinvent AB licences BI-1206 to CASI Pharmaceuticals
Cancer antibody specialist BioInvent International AB has granted the exclusive rights to market its anti-FcγRIIB antibody, BI-1206, in China,...

Vifor Pharma in US$100m licence deal with Cara Therapeutics
Under the licence deal with the US company Cara Therapeutics Inc., Swiss Vifor Pharma has acquired the US commercialisation rights for intravenous...

ADC company Araris Biotech raises CHF15.2m
Besides Pureos Bioventures, London-based 4BIO Capital, btov Partners, Redalpine, VI Partners and Schroder Adveq cofinanced the CHF12.7m addition to...

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund growing
Nurition world market leader Nestlé as well as Neste Oyj, Volkswohl Bund Versicherungen, NRW.BANK and an undisclosed family office contributed to the...

Swiss Noema Pharma raises CHF54m in Series A financing
It is one of the largest Series A rounds in Europe: Led by Sofinnova Partners and Polaris Partners, rare neurological diseases start-up Noema Pharma...

Siemens launches COVID-19 antigen lateral flow test
As testing capacities for the SARS-CoV-2 gold standard RT-PCR are going to be exhausted upon the looming second wave of infections with the novel...

Cell and gene therapy specialist Minaris expanding
In Europe, the Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd. subsidiary will invest US$40.7 million to build a new state-of-the-art facility in proximity to an...