
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...

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...

Global bioeconomy in the spotlight
Whereas first editions of the summit took place in Berlin in 2015 and 2018, the third edition was organized as a digital conference week from 16th to...

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...

Immunocore bags US$75m in Series C round
The round included support from existing investors and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. Immunocore said it will use the proceeds to ...

3P Bio to manufacture SpyBiotech vaccine
Under the agreement, Navarra-based CDMO 3P Biopharmaceuticals will produce cGMP lots for Phase I testing of SpyBiotech’s (Oxford) vaccine candidate...

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...