Weekly roundup: Wins in and out of the clinic

Curve Therapeutics Co-Founder and CSO Professor Ali Tavassoli awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Interdisciplinary Prize Curve Therapeutics proudly announced that Professor Ali Tavassoli, its Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, has been awarded the Interdisciplinary Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his brilliance in research and innovation, and contribution to scientific […]

Hot topic: Midsummer is here – winter is coming

Midsummer is here and it is glorious!   The daylight seems eternal, and it seems these endless days will last forever too.  London is a city of light, with the sun bouncing off ten thousand windows. Is it even the same place as the London of six months ago?  The further north you go, the […]

Weekly roundup: From BIO 2025 to building boards

Rewind Therapeutics strengthens scientific advisory board with leading international neurology experts as it advances its first-in-class remyelination therapy  Rewind Therapeutics, which is developing first-in-class treatments for demyelination-associated diseases, has appointed four internationally recognised innovators in neurology –  Professors Shiv Saidha, Cristina Granziera, David Leppert, and Roberto Furlan – to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The […]

Hot topic: Should we keep renaming diseases?

Thursday June 12 was Global Fatty Liver Day. But until 2018 it was known as International NASH Day – NASH being short for ‘non-alcoholic steatohepatitis’. The name of the awareness day was changed to increase awareness of all types of fatty liver disease, as NASH is just one type – a more serious type – […]

Weekly roundup: Innovation and deals for Optimum’s clients

SpliceBio secures $135 Million Series B financing to advance lead program SB-007 in Stargardt disease and expand pipeline of genetic medicines SpliceBio, a clinical-stage genetic medicines company pioneering Protein Splicing to address diseases caused by mutations in large genes, announced the close of a $135 million Series B financing co-led by new investors EQT Life Sciences and Sanofi […]