Daiichi Sankyo's investments in cancer drugs are taking shape

From Bavaria to the world: Daiichi Sankyo transfers technology for the development and production of antibody-drug conjugates to Germany

22-Nov-2024 - Bavaria's Minister President Dr. Markus Söder has marked the start of construction of a building at the production and development site of the Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo in Pfaffenhofen (Ilm) with a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony, where so-called antibody drug conjugates ...

Novel anti-cancer therapy: Prevention or reversal of cancer resistance

CatalYm Announces New Financing of $150M to Support Broad Phase 2b Development Program for Visugromab

18-Jul-2024 - CatalYm announced the completion of a $150 million Series D financing. The oversubscribed round was led by new investors, Canaan Partners and Bioqube Ventures, and joined by Forbion’s Growth Opportunities Fund (“Forbion Growth”), Omega Funds and Gilde Healthcare. Existing investors Jeito Capital, ...

SciRhom Secures EUR 63 Million Series A Financing Round to Accelerate iRhom2-targeting Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases

Novel and potentially groundbreaking therapeutic strategy

10-Jul-2024 - SciRhom GmbH announced the closing of a EUR 63 million (USD 70 million) Series A financing round. The round was co-led by Andera Partners, Kurma Partners, Hadean Ventures, MIG Capital, and Wellington Partners, with participation from new investor Bayern Kapital and existing investors including ...

Calluna Pharma launches and announces EUR 75 million Series A financing to develop novel therapies for inflammatory and fibrotic diseases

Calluna Pharma has a pipeline of selective antibodies targeting immunological diseases

01-Feb-2024 - Oxitope Pharma (Oxitope) and Arxx Therapeutics (Arxx), companies with a shared goal of leveraging the innate immune system to discover and develop disease modulating therapies, announced their merger to form Calluna Pharma Inc. (Calluna). Calluna has raised EUR 75 million in a series A financing ...

A promising investigational therapeutic monoclonal antibody to treat chronic hepatitis B and D infections

08-Aug-2023 - Affecting hundreds of millions of people, chronic hepatitis B is a widespread global health problem for which there is as yet no cure. In a preclinical study involving the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Heidelberg University Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and ...

CatalYm Closes EUR 50 Million Series C Financing

Start-up develops a "new anti-cancer immunotherapeutic drug with the potential to transform the immuno-oncology landscape"

24-Nov-2022 - CatalYm announced the close of a EUR50 million (USD49 million) Series C financing round. The oversubscribed round was co-led by new investors, Brandon Capital and Jeito Capital with participation from existing investors Forbion, Novartis Venture Fund, Vesalius Biocapital III, Bayern Kapital, ...

Merck Boosts Commercial Capacity in France

Merck has opened a commercial facility for its new Millipore® CTDMO Services offering at the company’s site in Martillac, France

04-Oct-2022 - Merck has opened a commercial facility for its new Millipore® CTDMO Services offering at the company’s site in Martillac, France. The 2,700-square-meter facility will provide global supply of commercial drug substances, including monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and other recombinant proteins, from ...

Two anti-inflammatory compounds shown to be capable of accelerating recovery from COVID-19

Monoclonal antibody and experimental drug given to patients promoted rapid improvement of respiratory function in patients in severe condition

17-Nov-2020 - Two independent clinical studies – one by researchers at the Center for Cell-Based Therapy (CTC) in Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo (Brazil), on the monoclonal antibody eculizumab, and the other by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA) on an experimental drug ...

Evotec to produce monoclonal antibody products against COVID-19 for the Department of Defense

Contract valued up to $ 18.2 m

23-Jul-2020 - Evotec SE announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (“DOD”) awarded its Seattle-based subsidiary, Just – Evotec Biologics, Inc. a contract valued up to $ 18.2 m to develop and manufacture monoclonal antibodies (“mAbs”) for treatment and/or prevention of COVID-19. The goal of this programme is ...

GSK and CureVac announce strategic mRNA technology collaboration

Companies to collaborate on mRNA vaccine and monoclonal antibody research programmes in infectious diseases

21-Jul-2020 - GlaxoSmithKline plc and CureVac announced the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement for the research, development, manufacturing and commercialisation of up to five mRNA-based vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting infectious disease pathogens. The collaboration complements ...