Biovian and 3P Biopharmaceuticals join forces to create 3PBIOVIAN
Finnish Biovian Oy and Pamplona-based 3P Biopharmaceuticals Srl have joined forces to build a pan-European Contract Development and Manufacturing...
AstraZeneca buys Chinese Gracell Biotechnologies for $1.2bn
Pharmaceutical giant Astrazeneca with CEO Pascal Soriot wants to take over the Chinese company Gracell Biotechnologies in order to strengthen its...
Novo Nordisk to acquire Cardior Pharmaceuticals
The take-over agreement includes Cardior’s lead compound CDR132L, currently in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of heart failure....
Boehringer Ingelheim enters €410m licence deal with Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd.
Under the terms of a new licencing and co-development deal, Boehringer Ingelheim will receive the exclusive, worldwide rights from Kyowa Kirin to...
Metrion Biosciences closes £3.7m equity financing
The company announced that the funding will be used to expand Metrion’s new (2021) laboratories in Cambridge, UK, invest in specialist...
Spexis sells antibiotics programme to Basilea
Spexis AG (Alschwil) has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. Under the agreement Basilea will acquire a...
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...