04.08.2017
- Swiss fine chemicals and biologics producer Lonza has acquired Micro-Macinazione, a contract manufacturer providing micronization of active ingredients for the pharmaceutical and...
03.08.2017
- Indian enzyme manufacturer Advanced Enzyme Technologies has announced it will acquire all of German industrial biotech company Evoxx Technologies for €7.65 million in a bid to...
24.07.2017
- Industry leaders from European and UK pharmaceutical and life science associations have written a joint letter to the chief Brexit negotiators Michel Barnier (EU) and David Davis...
20.07.2017
- The US state of Tennessee has become the fourth to place restrictions on the use of Monsanto’s dicamba, due to damages the herbicide is said to cause to crops not genetically...
06.07.2017
- JSR Life Sciences has acquired Swiss biotech Selexis for an undisclosed sum. The Geneva-headquartered company is the global leader in mammalian cell-line generation technologies...
13.06.2017
- US drugmaker Merck has signed a partnership agreement with UK biotech F-star to develop and commercialize five of the Cambridge-headquartered company’s novel bispecific immuno...
13.06.2017
- The European Commission has approved plans by US healthcare group Johnson & Johnson to acquire Swiss biotech Actelion, thus completing all global regulatory approvals. J&J said it...
12.06.2017
- UK biotech Glythera has launched a project to develop next-generation antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) for difficult-to-treat tumors, backed by funding of £1 million from government...
01.06.2017
- UK biotech Bicycle Therapeutics has raised £40 million from a Series B financing round to advance the development of multiple candidate drugs to treat cancers with a high unmet...
01.06.2017
- A new report released by the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) showed that the UK received the highest amount of biotech funding compared to anywhere else in Europe last year, and...