Weekly roundup: Rising leaders and growing momentum

Drum roll… In Vivo’s 2026 Rising Leaders were announced this week and included not one, not two, but five Optimum clients. A huge congratulations to Colleen Acosta of Freya Biosciences, Diana Čekatauskaitė of Lonza’s Synaffix, Reuben Dawkins of Link Biologics, Michelle Morrow of Nucleome Therapeutics, and Javier Nunez-Vicandi of Sofinnova Partners. This list recognises not […]

Hot topic: Fronting up – why video matters

I spent 20 years as a print journalist and my first love will always be the written word. But you might have noticed we’ve switched our Hot Topic articles from being a purely written affair, to something that we deliver primarily by video. There’s a very simple reason for this. Video gets more views. Way […]

Weekly roundup: Conferences for the calendar and industry moves

Easter may be over, but momentum across life sciences is building. Anglonordic Life Science Conference is less than two weeks away, alongside a steady stream of clinical progress, partnerships, and industry milestones, it’s all go! Our latest Optimum TV episode features Stephen Hansen of BioCentury and offers fresh insights into market trends and the Q2 […]

Sector updates in March

  Investment firms  The European Investment Fund (EIF) launched a new €15bn fund to back growth-stage investors across the continent  Ysios Capital launched a €100m fund, InceptionBio, focused on biotech company creation and early-stage projects, with a strong focus on Spain  Blackstone raised $6.3bn for its latest life sciences investment fund, Blackstone Life Sciences VI, to back late-stage development programs  Breakout […]

Hot topic: Can GLP-1s prevent cancer?

There’s now a good deal of observational data suggesting that GLP-1s do indeed cut the chance of developing obesity-related cancer – possibly by up to 40 per cent.  But we all know that correlation and causation are not the same thing.  So a group of Manchester University academics is planning to run a large study aimed at producing a definitive answer.  They […]