AMPLY Discovery Ltd bags £1.4m funding to tackle complex diseases
The 2021 spin-out from the Queen’s University Belfast announced it will close a seed financing round this year.vAMPLY is speeding up the discovery of...
Gene therapy supplier MIP Discovery closes £7M Series A financing
The £7m Series A financing of British gene therapy vector specialist MIP Discovery Ltd was led by lMercia Ventures.Existing investor Calculus Capital...
AstraZeneca to acquire Amolyt Pharma for up to US$1.05bn
Under the agreement set to close in Q3/2024, AstraZeneca will acquire Amolyt Pharma for US$800m upfront and potential milestone payments of US$250m....
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...
Spanish plant-based protein producer Heüra Foods closes Series B financing
Barcelona-based food tech start-up Heüra Foods Srl has cashed in €40m in a Series B financing round supported by Dutch Upfield Holdings BV, Unovis...
Swiss vaccine developer Limma Tech get CARB-X grant
LimmaTech said, it will use the grant to advance preclinical development of its hexavalent vaccine candidate targeting Neisseria gonorrheae. Using...
Bayer's Ask Bio unit starts Phase II heart failure gene therapy
The Phase II trial called GenePHIT is the largest adaptive, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, multicentre trial ever to evaluate the...