
Record year for Swiss biotech industry
Driven by the corona crisis, the Swiss biotech ecosystem is thriving as never before. This is evidenced by the Swiss Biotech Report from EY, the...

BioVersys gets €20m EIB loan to develop novel antibiotics
The venture debt loan is financed under the Infectious Diseases Finance Facility set up as part of Horizon 2020, the European Union’s research and...

German antibodies in demand in USA
Initially, Seattle-based Just - Evotec Biologics will receive US$28.6m from the Defense Health Agency ("DHA") under a partnership announced...

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 differently
Using X-ray crystallography, Sebastian Günther and colleagues screened more than 5,000 drug compounds, identified seven compounds that bind to Mpro,...

French biotech investors launch spin-out alliance
Argobio SAS has been kicked off with €50m of committed capital from Kurma Partners, and the state bank Bpifrance. Co-investors include Angelini...

InteRNA Technologies secures €18.5m in Series B financing
Waterman Ventures and current shareholders Aglaia Oncology Funds and OostNL participated in the funding. The Utrecht-based...

EMA: AZD1222 causes serious rare ADEs
However, the EMA has no idea which component of the cheapest COVID-19 vaccine on the market is supposed to cause the splanchnic leg and sinus vein...