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...
AstraZeneca to take over Fusion Therapeutics Inc
Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc‘s acquisition for US$2bn upfront marks a major step forward in AstraZeneca delivering on its ambition to transform cancer...
AmphiStar BV secures €6m to expand production
The infusion of €6m in new capital from ECBF, Qbic III and FFTF will empower AmphiStar to kickstart commercial biosurfactant production in...
Spanish Ferrer SA pays €122.5m for ALS candidate
Ferrer inked a €112.5m deal with the US-headquartered AI drug discovery specialist Verge Genomics to commercialise the PIKfyve (1...
Curve Therapeutics raises £40.5m in Series A financing
New investors Columbus Venture Partners and British Patient Capital and founding investor Advent Life Sciences as well as seed investor Epidarex...
Cambridge university spin-out HutanBio Ltd bags £2.25m seed financing
HutanBio, a Malaysian spin-out from scientists at Cambridge University, UK, has bagged a first tranche of seed investment from London-based Clean...
Scientists create non-digestible aptamer
The synthetic TNA nucleic acid analogues created by a biochemists at University of Cologne hrepresent a so called threofuranosyl nucleic acid...