New law to speed up clinical trials
The draft Medical Research Act (Medizinforschungsgesetz) presented by Health Minister Karl Lauterbach in Berlin before Easter is the centrepiece of...
Senisca Ltd raises £3.7m seed money
The proceeds of Senisca’s latest funding round led by Lifespan Vision Venture will support the preclinical development of the company’s...
Roche jumps ship on AC Immune
In recent trials, both Semorinemab, a monoclonal antibody (mAb) binding all forms of Tau, and Crenezumab, a mAb targeting multiple forms of misfolded...
Gene therapy supplier MIP Discovery closes £7M Series A financing
The £7m Series A financing of British gene therapy vector specialist MIP Discovery Ltd was led by lMercia Ventures.Existing investor Calculus Capital...
AstraZeneca to acquire Amolyt Pharma for up to US$1.05bn
Under the agreement set to close in Q3/2024, AstraZeneca will acquire Amolyt Pharma for US$800m upfront and potential milestone payments of US$250m....
Bayer's Ask Bio unit starts Phase II heart failure gene therapy
The Phase II trial called GenePHIT is the largest adaptive, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, multicentre trial ever to evaluate the...
Electrochaea sells biomethane reactor to Again A/S
Like German bio-CH4 producer Electrochea GmbH, Danish Again A/S is using CO2-fxing archaea, but to manufacture carbon-negative chemicals such...