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Optimum Strategic Communications to Host 16th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference with ‘Back to Growth’ theme

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LONDON, Oct. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Optimum Strategic Communications (Optimum), the international strategic healthcare communications consultancy, will be hosting its 16th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference on Thursday 10 October, 2024 at The Kings Fund, London. This year, as markets begin to bounce back after a lacklustre period, a prestigious line-up of industry experts will look to growth, identifying which therapies will attract investor […]

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Weekly wrap-up: $100m Series B financing for a bivalent vaccine, to new clinical data from a cutting-edge antibody-drug conjugate…

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Vicebio Announces $100 Million Series B Financing and Initiation of Phase 1 Clinical Study of RSV/hMPV Bivalent Vaccine  Vicebio Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel vaccines against life-threatening respiratory viral infections, on Monday announced a $100 million Series B financing  led by TCGX  with investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Avoro Ventures, venBio,  and participation from UniQuest and founding investor Medicxi.  London-based Vicebio said funding […]

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Death cap poison: the latest weapon in the fight against cancer

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The death cap mushroom is feared throughout much of the world because of the deadly toxin it contains, amanitin. But could the poison reputedly used by Agrippina to murder her husband, the Roman emperor Claudius, be used to destroy cancer, asks Richard Staines. Known to modern science as an inhibitor of RNA polymerase II, alpha-Amanitin […]

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From $1bn deals to Smart RNA – read our news roundup

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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 […]

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JPM ’24: The year’s healthcare barometer gives a more sunny outlook

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The JPM Healthcare Conference of 2024 may not have witnessed a mega-merger announcement, but there is anticipation that the M&A market could pick up this year, with predictions that the economic headwinds of recent years could turn into tailwinds.  The recent M&A Firepower report from EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, has forecast a […]

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