Bioplastics production capacity to quadruple by 2028
Global production capacity for bioplastics will almost quadruple within the next five years, according to estimates of the Nova Institute on behalf...
Onera Health raises US$32m in Series C round
Existing investors Innovation Industries, Invest-NL, imec.xpand, BOM, and 15th Rock participated in the financing of Onera Health (Eindhoven) along...
Roche leads Freenome Inc US$257m financing
Roche led the financing that will be used by San Francisco-based Freenome Inc to finance testing its early cancer detection platform in the Vallania...
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...
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...
Alfasigma SpA signs €170m deal with Galapagos NV
With the transaction that is expected to close in Q1/2024, Alfasigma will strengthen its pipeline, add a new Phase III programme to...
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...