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Ukrainian pharma company YURiA-PHARM acquires Uzbek firm Reka-Med with EBRD financing

(IN BRIEF) YURiA-PHARM, a leading Ukrainian pharma company, has acquired Reka-Med, a pharmaceutical company in Uzbekistan, with the help of €10 million of finance repurposed from an existing loan made by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The … Read the full press release

GRETE PROJECT RESULTS PRESENTED TO TEXTILE INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDERS AT INTERNATIONAL CELLULOSE FIBRES CONFERENCE

The GRETE fibre: regenerated from paper-grade wood pulp

AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION OF HIGH-PROFILE EXPERTS DEFINED READY-TO-UPSCALE GREEN CHEMICALS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE WOOD-TO-TEXTILE VALUE CHAIN (IN BRIEF)The GRETE project, an international collaboration of experts aimed at reducing the environmental footprint of the textile industry, presented their achievements to … Read the full press release

Roche and Eli Lilly join forces to improve Alzheimer’s diagnosis

(IN BRIEF) Roche has announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly to support the development of its Elecsys Amyloid Plasma Panel (EAPP) which is an innovative blood test that aims to facilitate the earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The EAPP test … Read the full press release

Bayer Aims to Play a Leading Role in Promoting Corporate Water Stewardship

(IN BRIEF) Bayer has launched a new water strategy at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York, which aims to make water an integral part of its business decisions, investments, and supplier selection. The strategy reflects the company’s role … Read the full press release

OncoC4 licenses next-generation anti-CTLA-4 monoclonal antibody candidate to BioNTech

(IN BRIEF) BioNTech and OncoC4 have entered into an exclusive license and collaboration agreement to develop and commercialize OncoC4’s anti-CTLA-4 monoclonal antibody candidate, ONC-392. The candidate aims to delete immunosuppressive T cells in the tumor microenvironment but spare T cells … Read the full press release

Werner Rainer, CEO of XSpline comments on the first patient enrolling in the International Clinical Trial for the company’s Non-Invasive Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Werner Rainer, CEO of XSpline comments on the first patient enrolling in the International Clinical Trial for the company's Non-Invasive Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

(IN BRIEF) I am excited to share that XSpline SPA and Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen Hospital have enrolled the first patient in the CRT-DRIVE clinical trial. Our cloud-based XSpline Cloud technology offers non-invasive cardiac panoramic mapping to select individual CRT treatment … Read the full press release

Dr. Georgios Kollias, M.D., comments on the enrollment of the first patient in the Clinical Study for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Using XSpline Cloud’s Non-Invasive Technology

Dr. Georgios Kollias, M.D. comments on the enrollment of the first patient in the Clinical Study for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Using XSpline Cloud's Non-Invasive Technology

(IN BRIEF) Dr. Georgios Kollias, the principal investigator for the clinical trial in Austria, expressed great satisfaction with the XSpline Cloud software, a non-invasive cardiac panoramic mapping technology designed to select individual CRT treatment strategies and predict outcomes. As the … Read the full press release

XSpline SPA / University of Linz (Austria): the first patient has been enrolled in the international multicenter clinical study for the Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy DeliveRy guided by non-Invasive electrical and VEnous anatomy assessment (CRT-DRIVE)

XSpline Cloud: First-in-class cloud platform for personalized cardiac resynchronization therapy evaluated in International Clinical Trial; first procedure performed at the Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen Hospital (Austria). (IN BRIEF) XSpline SPA, an Italian start-up company, and the Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen Hospital in … Read the full press release

EHRA 2023: Celebrando 20 años de avances en el manejo de la arritmia

(NOTICIA EN BREVE) El congreso científico EHRA 2023 de la European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), una rama de la Sociedad Europea de Cardiología (ESC), se llevará a cabo del 16 al 18 de abril en Barcelona, España, así como en … Read the full press release

EHRA 2023: Celebrating 20 Years of Advancements in Arrhythmia Management

(IN BRIEF) The EHRA 2023 scientific congress of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), will be held from April 16 to 18 in Barcelona, Spain, as well as online. The congress … Read the full press release

Researchers discover new approach to treating brain hemorrhage with protein therapy

(IN BRIEF) Researchers from the Brain Repair laboratory at the University of Helsinki have investigated whether a protein called cerebral dopamine neurotrophic factor (CDNF) has potential as a treatment for intracerebral haemorrhage, a condition where bleeding into brain tissue causes … Read the full press release

Sanofi’s Acquisition of Provention Bio Expands Immune-Mediated Disease Portfolio

(IN BRIEF) Sanofi has agreed to acquire Provention Bio, a U.S.-based biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and intercepting immune-mediated diseases, for $2.9 billion. The acquisition includes Provention Bio’s first-in-class therapy for type 1 diabetes, TZIELD, which was approved in the … Read the full press release

Merck and Intel fund academic research program in Europe to drive sustainable semiconductor manufacturing with AI and machine learning

(IN BRIEF) Merck and Intel have signed a memorandum of understanding to invest in a new academic research program aimed at driving innovation in semiconductor manufacturing processes and technologies using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The companies will jointly … Read the full press release

Sandoz to Invest Over $400 Million in New Biologics Plant in Slovenia

(IN BRIEF) Sandoz, a global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a new biologics production plant in Lendava, Slovenia, in a move expected to be worth at least USD 400 million. The … Read the full press release

AstraZeneca cherche la prochaine vague d’innovation thérapeutique avec le défi postdoctoral R&D 2023

(ACTUALITÉ EN BREF) AstraZeneca a lancé le Défi postdoctoral R&D 2023, qui invite les étudiants en dernière année de médecine et/ou de doctorat et les chercheurs postdoctoraux du monde entier à soumettre leurs propres propositions de recherche. L’initiative est conçue … Read the full press release

AstraZeneca seeks next wave of therapeutic innovation with 2023 R&D Postdoctoral Challenge

(IN BRIEF) AstraZeneca has launched the 2023 R&D Postdoctoral Challenge, which invites final-year MD and/or PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from around the world to submit their own research proposals. The initiative is designed to promote diversity of thought and … Read the full press release

QIAGEN and Servier Collaborate to Develop Diagnostic Test for Hard-to-Treat Blood Cancer

(IN BRIEF) QIAGEN has entered into a partnership with global pharmaceutical group, Servier, to develop a companion diagnostic test for TIBSOVO, an isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) inhibitor used to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML). QIAGEN will develop and validate a real-time … Read the full press release

Die Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership und die University of Liverpool bündeln ihre Kräfte, um Antibiotikaresistenzen zu bekämpfen

(IN KÜRZE) Die University of Liverpool und die Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) haben eine Absichtserklärung unterzeichnet, um bei neuen Projekten zur Bekämpfung der Antibiotikaresistenz (AMR) zusammenzuarbeiten. Sie arbeiten seit 2018 zusammen, um neue Behandlungsmöglichkeiten für Neugeborene mit … Read the full press release

Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership and University of Liverpool join forces to fight antimicrobial resistance

(IN BRIEF) The University of Liverpool and the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on new projects to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR). They have been working together since 2018 to advance … Read the full press release

Evonik expands lipid manufacturing capabilities for advanced drug delivery

(IN BRIEF) Specialty chemicals company Evonik has opened a lipid launch facility at its site in Hanau, Germany. The good manufacturing practice facility, which opened on 8 March 2023, will enable Evonik to provide customers with quantities of lipids as … Read the full press release