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...
Essential Pharma acquires Renaissance Pharma Ltd
Renaissance Pharma Ltd, which was only founded in September 2023 with the licensing of the anti-GD2 antibody from St Jude Children's Research...
Nordic Bioproducts Group opens its first production facility
Nordic Bioproduct’s commercial-scale manufacturing site is expected to create €40m in revenue in the first full operating year. In...
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...
EU parliament backs deregulation of New Genome Techniques
With the MEPs' approval of the amendments to the European Commission's draft legislation, the way is now clear for a regulation that distinguishes...
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....
Unitaid awards Medincell US$6m to fight malaria
The funding commitment for MedinCell Corp’es reformulation of the antipararsitic ivermectin comes after great progress in malaria vaccines: The...