
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...

New EU stakeholder platform to speed up clinical trials
Following strong criticism ahead of the mandatory launch of the CTIS electronic clinical trial reporting portal by the European Medicines Agency...

Abionyx Pharma announces success in fighting sepsis-triggered AKI
After AM-Pharma’s human recombinant alkaline phosphatase, ilofotase alfa, missed the endpoint of improving overall survival in patients with...

Upscaling AAV gene therapy
Mid-March marks the start of the collaboration of Remedium Bio Inc. and Biovial Oy on an AAV gene therapy for osteoarthritis. Rheumatology and...

Novo Holdings invests into standardisation of LC-MS-based proteomics
Novo Holdings, the investment arm of Nordisk A/S has invested €40m in the eight-years-old clinical proteomics specialist Ecosep Aps to benefit from...

European VCs join US$105m financing of US Mediar Thx
Fibrosis, triggered by inflammation or injury, results in an abnormal production of scar tissue that can lead to organ failure. Luckily, not all...

High blood pressure reprograms immune system
German scientists headed by Suphansa Sawamiphak from MDC Berlin have discovered in a zebrafish and mouse model of salt-induced hypertension that...