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AstraZeneca buys Novo Holdings portfolio company Amolyt in potential $1bn+ deal Novo Holdings A/S and Sofinnova Partners, two leading life sciences investors, made headlines on Thursday when portfolio company Amolyt Pharma entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by AstraZeneca at a purchase price of US$800 million upfront and a potential milestone payment of […]

Novo Holdings Joins €30M Series A Financing for Asgard Therapeutics, Leader In In Vivo Cell Reprogramming To Treat Cancer

Financing to advance first platform designed to reprogram cancer cells into immune cells as pan-tumoral cancer treatment Novo Holdings participation follows earlier investment and incubation through seed phase Financing co-led by RV Invest and Johnson & Johnson Innovation, joined by existing investors Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Industrifonden COPENHAGEN – March 14th, 2024 – Novo Holdings, […]

Asgard Therapeutics announces €30 million Series A financing to advance its first-in-class in vivo cell reprogramming platform for immuno-oncology

Co-led by RV Invest and Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. with participation from existing investors Novo Holdings, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Industrifonden Lead program is AT-108, a first-in-class, off-the-shelf intra-tumoral therapy that leads to personalized and potent anti-cancer immune responses Expanding R&D team to further develop AT-108 and broaden in vivo reprogramming […]

US FDA grants Orphan Drug Designation for iOnctura’s first-in-class autotaxin cancer therapy

Autotaxin inhibitor, IOA-289, recently received the proposed INN cambritaxestat Cambritaxestat is in the Phase I AION-02 trial in combination with chemotherapy in metastatic pancreatic cancer It is the first autotaxin inhibitor to be investigated in cancer patients Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Geneva, Switzerland, 7 March 2024 – iOnctura, a pioneering, clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative cancer […]

Asceneuron Expands Scientific Advisory Board with World Leading Experts in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Significant appointments of industry and academic experts to support Phase II development of ASN51 in Alzheimer’s disease Lausanne, SWITZERLAND and San Francisco, CA, USA, 6 March 2024 – Asceneuron SA, a clinical stage biotech company dedicated to targeting the root causes of neurodegenerative diseases, today announces the appointments of neurodegenerative disease experts to its Scientific Advisory Board […]