
Avantium NV bags money for demo plant
The new grant is part of a €30m financing mix that Avantium and the Groningen consortium announced this January. FDCA is the key building block for...

Swiss Noema Pharma raises CHF54m in Series A financing
It is one of the largest Series A rounds in Europe: Led by Sofinnova Partners and Polaris Partners, rare neurological diseases start-up Noema Pharma...

Siemens launches COVID-19 antigen lateral flow test
As testing capacities for the SARS-CoV-2 gold standard RT-PCR are going to be exhausted upon the looming second wave of infections with the novel...

Drug set to rescue COVID-19 patients at ICUs
Initial data from an US expanded access (EA) use of RLF-100™ (aviptadil) in 90 ICU patients with critical COVID-19 and severe comorbidities...

Moderna to file for EU approval of mRNA-1273 vaccine
Modernas primary analysis of the COVE Phase III data was based on 196 cases, of which 185 cases of COVID-19 were observed in the placebo group versus...

Pfizer/BioNTech sign vaccine contract with EC
The deal includes an option for the European Commission to request an additional 100 million doses of BNT-162-b2. That's the largest initial order of...

BI initiates Phase II testing of COVID-19 drug
A new potential weapon against severe complications such as ARDS caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 have been advanced by Boehringer Ingelheim...