Melanie Senior’s article in Nature Portfolio on ‘Precision Financing’ highlights the rigour behind private biotech financing in 2023 where strong data and efficiency are essential. Two of our clients, Naveed Siddiqi of Novo Holdings and Antoine Papiernik from Sofinnova Partners were featured. Here are some key takeaways… Since the pandemic, the biotech industry has experienced […]
On the 4 April 2023, Adcendo announced the extension of its Series A financing to ensure broad development of its first-in-class ADC pipeline. The financing was led by Pontifax Venture Capital with participation by existing investors Novo Holdings and Ysios Capital which together raised an additional EUR 31M taking its total funds to EUR 82M. The funding from the strong and committed syndicate of […]
Following Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 budget delivered earlier this month, in which he paved the way for faster access to new drugs and revealed R&D tax credits for life sciences companies, Bloomberg looked at the many challenges still facing the UK’s life sciences sector. Despite the success of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, the UK is still […]
Emerging new Company veriNOS pharmaceuticals, established in October 2022, Led by CEO, Christian Wandersee and CMO Professor John Stover, provides an update on its revival of late-stage drug candidate ronopterin for the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Ronopterin is the first and only iNOS inhibitor which has demonstrated repeated signs of neuroprotection in TBI […]
Each year, Rare Disease Day aims to raise awareness of rare diseases and encourage positive change to patients’ lives. A disease is considered rare when it affects fewer than 1 in 2,000 people and there are 300 million people with rare diseases across the world.1 On Rare Disease Day 2023, we want to celebrate the […]
