German companies to revolutionise lab plastics market
Plastic consumables used in pharmaceutical and biotechnological research must meet high quality standards. A German start-up has now launched the...
SynaptixBio Ltd gets FDA ODD for leukodystrophy
Using antisense oligonucleotides (ASO) to silence the beta tubulin 4a gene, Oxford-based SynaptixBio Ltd received its first ODD in early 2023 for a...
Seabelife SAS to develop next-gen dry AMD drug
French drug developer SeaBeLife SAS has bagged a €1.5m fund within the i-Nov 2024 innovation competition, which is part of the French government’s...
Genmab broadens ADC pipeline with $1.8bn acquisition of ProfoundBio
The acquisition will give Genmab access to ProfoundBio's portfolio of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), three of which are in clinical trials. The...
Roche opens €90m gene therapy development centre
Roche sees the €90m investment as a harbinger of the German government's "National Strategy for Gene and Cell Therapies", which has been...
Pierre Fabre SAS in US$31m licence deal with Kinnate Biopharma Inc
With the US$31m agreement Pierre Fabre licences the global rights to exarafenib and other pan-RAF program assets from Kinnate...
Bioplastics production capacity to quadruple by 2028
Global production capacity for bioplastics will almost quadruple within the next five years, according to estimates of the Nova Institute on behalf...