With nine months to go before their introduction, the industry is flagging many uncertainties around the proposed guidelines for implementing joint clinical assessments.
Microbiome specialist Enterobiotix Ltd. has raised £27 million (US$34.2 million) in a series B round as it starts a phase II trial of EBX-102-02 in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome.
Addex Therapeutics has offloaded its portfolio of preclinical allosteric modulation drugs into Neurosterix, a new company that arrives on the scene with a $63 million series A round.
Analysis of the immune signatures of blood samples from patients with early-stage multiple sclerosis (MS) who were treatment naive has identified three distinct subtypes that have different disease trajectories and which respond differently to therapy.
Europe may still await its first disease-modifying Alzheimer’s drug after the EMA postponed its decision on Leqembi (lecanemab, Biogen Inc./Eisai Co. Ltd) on March 22, but leading members of the World Dementia Council were in an optimistic mood when they convened in London four days later. “We are working to make the inevitable happen earlier,” said Lenny Shallcross, executive director of WDC. “The inevitable will be rollout of medicines, rollout of better diagnostics and the improvement of care. All of those things over the next 10 years are inevitably going to happen.”
Europe may still await its first disease-modifying Alzheimer’s drug after the EMA postponed its decision on Leqembi (lecanemab, Biogen Inc./Eisai Co. Ltd) on March 22, but leading members of the World Dementia Council were in an optimistic mood when they convened in London four days later.
Europe may still await its first disease-modifying Alzheimer’s drug after the EMA postponed its decision on Leqembi (lecanemab, Biogen Inc./Eisai Co. Ltd) on March 22, but leading members of the World Dementia Council were in an optimistic mood when they convened in London four days later.
Neuromuscular disease specialist NMD Pharma A/S has been given U.S. FDA approval for a phase IIb trial of NMD-670, after demonstrating proof of mechanism for the orally-available chloride ion channel-1 inhibitor in generalized myasthenia gravis.
After months of wrangling, the update of the EU pharmaceutical legislation passed an important milestone on March 19, when members of parliament on the health committee reconciled their opposing views and voted the file through.
Aignostics GmbH has embarked on raising a €20-€30 million (US$21.74-$32.61 million) series B round after validating its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven precision oncology platform by signing a co-development deal with Bayer AG. This is the first pharma partnership for the Berlin, Germany-based company. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Aignostics will receive an up-front payment and is eligible to receive success-based milestone payments and royalties on any commercialized therapies that result from the collaboration.
