The European Medicines Agency has granted conditional approval for bluebird bio NV’s gene therapy Zynteglo (LentiGlobin BB305) to treat the rare disease transfusion-dependent ?-thalassemia at its first meeting in Amsterdam.
The CHF22.5m Series A financing round of the Swiss specialist for autoimmune diseases was led by Sofinnova Partners and New Enterprise Associates together with contributions of existing investors.
French liver disorder specialist Genfit SA has announced the pricing of its Nasdaq IPO of ADS and European private placement.
Evotec AG and The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research have inked a R&D collaboration aimed at developing novel immunooncological drugs
The 13th annual BIO-Europe Spring international partnering conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, for the first time, March 2527, 2019, at the Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center. The event is highly regarded among companies across the life science value chain, from large biotech and pharma companies to financiers and innovative startups.
A research team from Germany and Mexico has successfully targeted uveal melanoma (UM), the most common type of eye cancer.
Pfizer Inc has paid 45m upfront to French gene therapy specalist Vivet Therapeutics in a licence option deal for Vivet’s preclinical Wilson disease candidate VTX-801.
After positive preliminary results of Sotio’s SOV02 trial in ovarian cancer had been presented last year, the final analysis confirmed the survival benefits. The Czech biotech company now plans to initiate a global Phase III study with its autologous cell-based immunotherapy also in this indication.
More than 330 experts joined the 2-day AMR Conference 2019 in Berlin. They called for rapid capital investments and economic incentives in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
