
Cell and gene therapy specialist Minaris expanding
In Europe, the Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd. subsidiary will invest US$40.7 million to build a new state-of-the-art facility in proximity to an...

BioNTech reports high efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine
BioNTech/Pfizer are the first COVID-19 vaccine developers who provided the definitive proof-of-concept that it is possible to protect people from an...

Vifor Pharma in US$100m licence deal with Cara Therapeutics
Under the licence deal with the US company Cara Therapeutics Inc., Swiss Vifor Pharma has acquired the US commercialisation rights for intravenous...

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...

ADC company Araris Biotech raises CHF15.2m
Besides Pureos Bioventures, London-based 4BIO Capital, btov Partners, Redalpine, VI Partners and Schroder Adveq cofinanced the CHF12.7m addition to...

EU approves second COVID-19 vaccine
The EU has secured a total of 160 million doses of mRNA-1273 from the US-American manufacturer Moderna, which has outsourced production sites on the...