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Switzerland-based Vifor Pharma is acquiring Spain’s Sanifit Therapeutics and another Swiss company, Inositec.
A Chinese professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark is under scrutiny over undisclosed ties to the Chinese military.
With the last full week before the Thanksgiving week in the U.S., companies had a fair amount of clinical trial news. Here’s a look.
While COVID-19 appears to be battling back in cold-weather states in the U.S. and parts of Europe, researchers continue to study vaccine efficacy and new approaches to dosing. Here’s a look.
BioNTech is on the Fast Track. This morning, the company announced it received Fast Track Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its cancer immunotherapy candidate.
Biopharma and life sciences companies strengthen their leadership teams and boards with these Movers & Shakers.
Two weeks after Novartis announced it would sell its nearly one-third voting stake in next-door neighbor Roche, investors are chomping at the bit to find out how that almost $21 billion will be put to work.
FDA
The FDA and CDC will soon decide on Pfizer-BioNTech’s request for an Emergency Use Authorization for the booster shot for their COVID-19 vaccine.
The strategic collaboration entails a $180 million equity investment into Owkin and a total payment of $90 million over the next three years, in addition to milestone-based fees to be determined later.
Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates. Belgium-based Galapagos NV won European approval for Jyseleca for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC).
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