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Optimum Strategic Communications to Host 17th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference

How can companies with promising science secure the capital they need to develop drugs What does pharma need to fill their pipelines as they look to negotiate looming patent cliffs London, UK, 7 October 2025: Optimum Strategic Communications (Optimum), the specialist life sciences communications consultancy, will be hosting its 17th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference on Thursday 9 October […]

Optimum Strategic Communications to Host 17th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference

How can companies with promising science secure the capital they need to develop drugs What does pharma need to fill their pipelines as they look to negotiate looming patent cliffs London, UK, 7 October 2025: Optimum Strategic Communications (Optimum), the specialist life sciences communications consultancy, will be hosting its 17th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference on Thursday […]

Weekly round-up: How do you turn a 10-person biotech into a $1.1 billion company sale in the space of seven years?

During the BIO-Europe conference in Stockholm, Optimum co-hosted a special reception featuring a fireside chat with Renée Aguiar-Lucander, former CEO of Calliditas, who led the Swedish company since 2017 until recently – taking it from small biotech to its $1.1 billion acquisition. Here, we tell the story of her remarkable seven-year journey with the firm.  Novo […]

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

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 […]

Novo Holdings announces pre-IPO investment in Medi Assist, the top health benefits’ administrator in India

COPENHAGEN and SINGAPORE. Novo Holdings today announced its investment in Medi Assist, India’s largest health benefits’ administrator. The investment marks Novo Holdings Asia Investments’ fourth investment in HealthTech, a sector subject to robust growth across the APAC region, and the fifth investment in India. Read more…