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German pharmaceutical firm Bayer has agreed to acquire Vividion Therapeutic to strengthen its drug discovery capabilities. Vividion Therapeutics uses novel discovery technologies to develop therapies for patients with

The European Commission has finalised an advanced purchase agreement (APA) with Novavax to buy up to 200 million doses of NVX-CoV2373, the company’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate. NVX-CoV2373 is

Amgen has announced plans to construct a new multi-product drug substance manufacturing facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina, the US. The company is committed to invest approximately $550m.

Sanofi has agreed to acquire a mRNA therapeutics firm Translate Bio to advance the use of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology across vaccines and therapeutics development. Under terms of

Biopharmaceutical company Ipsen and Exicure have collaborated to research, develop, and commercialize novel Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs) as potential investigational therapies to treat Angelman syndrome and Huntington’s disease.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ investigational Covid-19 antibody cocktail REGEN-COV. Designed to block SARS-CoV-2 infectivity, REGEN-COV

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced collaboration with Frazier Healthcare Partners to launch HilleVax to develop and commercialise the former’s clinical stage norovirus vaccine candidate, HIL-214 (formerly TAK-214). HIL-214 is

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte’s baricitinib to treat Covid-19 patients with or

Deep Genomics has raised $180m funding in Series C financing round to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) discovery platform for ‘Programmable’ RNA therapeutics and scale its portfolio into