Valneva raises US$85m

French vaccine developer Valneva SA will raise $85m in a financing arrangement with Deerfield and OrbiMed and go Nasdaq to co-fund its Lyme disease programme.

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EMA greenlights 15 new meds

The EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended fifteen medicines for approval at its January 2020 meeting.

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Sleeping sickness target deciphered

Researchers at the University of Luebeck have revealed the structure of the IMP dehydrogenase, a central target of T. brucei, which causes sleeping sickness.

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UK researchers present dengue virus transmission map

Scientists at Imperial College London have created a worldwide atlas of dengue virus transmission with much higher spatial resolution than any previous regional- or global-scale estimates.

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AMR: IMI’s Enable project reaches endpoints

The ENABLE project has achieved its initial goals to identify three antibacterial leads, select two antibacterial development candidates and advance one compound into Phase I development.

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MercachemSyncom, Bionetix, and ProQinase ink AML contract

Bionetix, ProQinase, and MercachemSyncom have announced that they will jointly develop a new AML drug, from target identification to clinical testing

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iOnctura SA bags €15m in Series A round

Merck KGaA’s 2017 Swiss cancer spin-out iOnctura SA has raised €15m to bring its PI3K? inhibitor and autotaxin inhibitor to the clinic.

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BioNTech acquires Neon at cheapest for $67m

mRNA cancer neoantigen specialist BioNTech AG is set to buy all shares of Neon Therapeutics, Inc. expanding its pipeline of neoantigen-targeting therapies and getting foothold in the US.

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