
Roche acquires Telavant Holdings to win TLA1 race
The takeover of Telavant, a 75:25 jont-venture of Roivant Sciences and the US pharmaceutical group Pfizer, however, may cost Roche up to US-$7.25bn....

Solar Foods raises €8m in Series B financing
Solar Foods Oy has raised €8m (US$8.8m) from retail investors in Finland. The Series B round was led by Finland’s Springvest Oy, existing...

Cellectis and AstraZeneca in US$2.2bn deal
Under the co-development agreement, that includes a US$80m equity investment and an option for a further equity investment of US$140m by AstraZeneca...

Pierre Fabre SA licences immunotherapy from Atara Biotherapeutics
Paris-based Pierre Fabre Laboratories SA already held a licence for the EU-approved tabelecleucel, an allogeneic T cell based second-line treatment...

ViaNautis Bio Ltd closes US$25m Series A financing
The US$25m round of cambridge-based ViaNautis Bio Ltd, founded in 2018 as SomaServe, was led 4BIO Capital, BGF (both UK), and UCB Ventures (UK, US,...

Majority of EU agri-council supports NGT deregulation
On the occasion of an informal meeting of EU agriculture ministers on NGT plant varieties (3.–5. September), a majority of ministers said they would...