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Weekly roundup: Financial milestones to scientific breakthroughs, leadership moves and major industry events

Novo Holdings announces 2025 Annual Results  Novo Holdings announced its financial results for 2025. Despite a challenging global environment, Novo Holdings has made significant progress on its Strategy 2030 during 2025 and delivered on its priorities. The Novo Holdings Investment Portfolio continued to perform well on both an absolute and relative basis, with a return […]

Novo Holdings participates in $372.5 million Series D financing of MapLight Therapeutics to advance differentiated CNS therapies

Financing to support Phase 2 trials of lead program for schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease psychosis, and expansion of CNS pipeline San Francisco, US, 28 July 2025 – Novo Holdings, a leading life science investor, today announced its participation in a $372.5 million Series D financing of MapLight Therapeutics (“MapLight”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving […]

This week’s hot topic: Why Pharma will have to play the long game on Alzheimer’s drugs

By Stephen Adams, Optimum Strategic Communications Few people expected England and Wales’s drugs spending watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (“NICE”), to approve Eli Lilly’s new dementia drug donanemab for use on the NHS last week.  At a reputed annual cost of at least £60,000 a year, including the care bill, it […]

AstronauTx appoints Jane Rhodes as Chief Executive Officer and Expands Executive Team

Jane Rhodes appointed as Chief Executive Officer Magnus Ivarsson appointed as Chief Translation and Early Development Officer London UK, 1 October 2024 – AstronauTx Ltd (“AstronauTx”), a biotechnology company developing novel treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, today announces the appointment of Dr Jane Rhodes, PhD, MBA, as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member […]

Asceneuron Secures $100 Million Series C Financing to Advance Groundbreaking Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Financing led by Novo Holdings, including new investment from EQT Life Sciences – LSP Dementia Fund, OrbiMed and SR One with participation from existing investors M Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, GSK Equities Investments Limited and Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. Funds will be used to progress lead asset ASN51, an oral small molecule OGA […]