09.09.2019
- Meat produced from cell cultures (i.e., cultured meat) rather than whole animals may be a solution to the problems surrounding our current livestock production system, but it is...
18.07.2019
- Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim has purchased AMAL Therapeutics for an undisclosed sum. AMAL is a private Swiss biotech that is focused on cancer immunotherapy and vaccines derived...
15.05.2019
- Bionure, a Barcelona, Spain-based clinical stage R&D company specialized in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, has appointed Lucia Septien as chief medical officer (CMO)...
03.04.2019
- Swiss drugmaker Novartis has agreed to buy US biotech IFM Tre in a deal worth nearly $1.6 billion, boosting its portfolio of anti-inflammatory medicines. Novartis will pay $310...
26.03.2019
- Pfizer has taken a 15% equity stake in French privately held biotech Vivet Therapeutics, with an exclusive option to acquire the remaining shares. Vivet is focused on developing...
28.02.2019
- Swiss drugs giant Roche has agreed to pay $4.3 billion for Spark Therapeutics, marking the latest purchase of a biotech company by big pharma. The deal gives Roche the first US...
18.02.2019
- Within a week, US biotech Celgene, which is in the process of being acquired by Bristol-Myers-Squibb (BMS), dodged a challenge to its patent for the blockbuster multiple myeloma...
29.01.2019
- DuPont Industrial Biosciences has broken ground on its new multidisciplinary facility in the Leiden Bio Science Park at Oegstgeest, the Netherlands. With its new project, the Dow...
