
NK cell therapy company NK:IO raises seed money
London-based UK New Cancer Therapeutics award winner (£1.6m) NK:IO Ltd has raised £1.2M bringing total equity financing to £3.2m. This,...

Bavarian Nordic A/S bags US$120m for smallpox vaccine
Under a deal with the US agency BARDA, Bavarian Nordic A/S (Copenhagen) will cash in US$96m in 2023 ffor the manufacturing of a n new buk product of...

Nanobiotix SA licences NBTXR3 to J&J
NBTXR3 is currently being evaluated across different solid tumour indications including NANORAY‑312, a global Phase III pivotal study in ...

Mystery solved: Mysthera Theapeutics launches with $3.5m
Mysthera Therapeutics AG was just founded in Basel, Switzerland by Forty51 Ventures with $3.5m seed capital. Pursuing a first-in-class...

EU Regulation of Genome Editing in Plants – not yet a law
The EU proposal has a clear message: the requirements for simple genome-edited plants shall be significantly relaxed. There will no longer be the...

Researchers stop brain cell death in Alzheimer’s mice
The research team led by Prof. Bart De Strooper (VIB-KU Leuven/UK Dementia Research Institute), and Dr Sriram Balusu (VIB-KU Leuven) has finally...

CEPI commits up to US$80m to University of Oxford to develop vaccines
The US$80m strategic partnership of CEPI, which was established in 2016 in the wake of the Ebola virus outbreak in west Africa, the University of...