Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

US President deprioritises biotechnology

The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump has revoked Executive Order 14081, “Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy,” originally issued on September 12, 2022. This decision will have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. biotech industry.

Roche inks US$1.65bn obesity deal with Zealand Pharma

Roche is extending its obesity pipeline signing a US$5.3bn biobucks deal with Zealand Pharma A/S, who will co-develop and co-commercialise a monotherapy of its long-acting amylin analogue petrelintide with the Swiss pharma giant in the US and Europe and do the same for a combo of petrelintide and Roche’s GLP1/GIP receptor agonist CTT388.

EU Commission presents Clean Industrial Deal

The European Commission has presented its long-awaited Clean Industrial Deal, which aims at replacing its Green Deal in times of geopolitical tensions, slow economic growth and technological competition with “a transformational business plan” that makes the world’s 2nd largest economic bloc future-proof, sustainable while improving global competitiveness.