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Cambridge-based Microbiotica’s ulcerative colitis (UC) candidate met its primary and secondary phase 1b study objectives on safety, efficacy signals and bacterial engraftment. The company has reported positive results from a small, placebo-controlled study of its oral precision microbiome therapy MB310 in patients with mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis, adding a rare positive clinical signal in a disease area where microbiome approaches have so far struggled to gain traction.

The Australian–Swiss plasma specialist CSL is relying on technology from Switzerland for recombinant polyclonal immunoglobulins (IgG). With Memo Therapeutics, the company has entered into a collaboration and option agreement with a total potential value of up to CHF 265 million. This is good news for Memo, while CSL, following substantial job cuts including in Marburg, could also use some different headlines for a change.

After more than a decade of failed drug development efforts, osteoarthritis remains one of biopharma’s most stubborn challenges. Despite affecting more than 600 million people worldwide, no therapy approved in Europe or the United States has yet been shown to slow or modify disease progression. Against that backdrop, 4Moving Biotech (4MB) is betting that a familiar drug class, GLP-1 receptor agonists, can succeed where others have fallen short.

Aerska, a biotechnology company focused on RNA medicines for brain diseases, has raised €32 million in a Series A financing to advance its lead technology toward clinical development. The round was co-led by EQT Life Sciences through its LSP Dementia Fund, alongside age1, and brings the company’s total funding to €50 million since its seed round in October 2025.

Stockholm-based BioArctic is receiving SEK 127 million (about €11.9 million at today’s exchange rate) in royalties from the Alzheimer’s disease therapy Leqembi (lecanemab).