Tag Archive for: biotech

Will Trump hit foreign pharma companies with tariffs?

Well, the last fortnight’s certainly been a rollercoaster. Ever since President Trump announced his plans for sweeping tariffs on foreign goods entering the US on Thursday April 3, markets have hardly been able to catch their collective breath. First there was the initial shock, at which point stocks tanked, before lurching up and down, and […]

Infinitopes Granted Phase I/IIa Clinical Trial Application Approval to Evaluate Precision Vaccine Targeting Early-Stage Oesophageal Cancer

Revolutionary ‘off-the-shelf’ cancer vaccine designed to prevent the recurrence of oesophageal cancer ITOP1 to enter first-in-human Phase I/IIa clinical development in the VISTA study in H1 2025 Multicentre study to be conducted at four university cancer centres, aiming to raise the standard of care by reducing the recurrence of metastases and cancer-related deaths Oxford, UK […]

Optimum’s top take-aways from Anglonordic 2025

If a good rule of thumb for a conference is how full the hall is at the end of the day compared to the start, then the 21st Anglonordic Life Science Conference held last Thursday, attended by well over 300 people, was a resounding success.  Maybe it was still full because attendees were keen to […]

Sector updates in March

Investment firms  Sofinnova Partners raises $1.3B (€1.2B) to support next generation of life science and healthcare companies, spanning across the firm’s seven investment strategies.  From the recent raise, Sofinnova Partners invested €165M into its Biovelocita strategy fund dedicated entirely to the creation and acceleration of biotech startups in Europe  Informed Ventures launched (a GSR Ventures […]