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Tubulis Raises Record Series C to Push ADC Program
Tubulis closed a €308 million (≈$356 million) Series C — one of Europe’s largest biotech rounds this year — to advance its next‑generation antibody‑drug conjugates (ADCs), notably TUB‑040 in...
Long‑Read Sequencing Costs Drop — PacBio Reusable Consumables Move
Pacific Biosciences announced plans to allow reuse of its most expensive consumables and rolled out Sprq‑Nx chemistry to boost output, targeting sub‑$300 per genome costs for large projects. The...
Manufacturing Capacity Grows — Lonza Line Approved, MilliporeSigma M&A
Lonza received Swissmedic approval for a new aseptic filling line in Stein capable of handling highly potent biologics and ADCs, expanding its drug product footprint and containment capabilities....
In Vivo Immune Programming and LNP Startups Gain Traction
Create Medicines (formerly Myeloid Therapeutics) announced a strategic rebrand and expanded its in‑vivo mRNA‑LNP immune programming platform beyond myeloid cells to include T and NK cell...
mRNA Manufacturing and Purification Get Regional and Technical Boosts
BioNTech secured up to €95 million from two EU bodies to support construction of an mRNA vaccine facility in Kigali, Rwanda, advancing regional vaccine production capacity in Africa. The funding...
Big Obesity Bets — Kailera $600M Series B and Lilly’s Oral GLP‑1 Wins
Kailera Therapeutics closed a $600 million Series B led by Bain Capital Private Equity to advance KAI‑9531, a weekly dual‑target metabolic injection positioned against Eli Lilly’s obesity...
Novo Nordisk lands Omeros’ MASP‑3 inhibitor: $2.1B pact
Novo Nordisk agreed a development and commercialization deal giving it global rights to zaltenibart, an Omeros MASP‑3 antibody, with up to $2.1 billion in payments tied to milestones. Novo will...
Tubulis smashes series C record – €308M to scale ADC pipeline
Tubulis closed one of Europe’s largest Series C rounds—raising €308 million (reported variously as ~$356–361 million)—to advance its clinical‑stage antibody‑drug conjugate (ADC) portfolio and...
Lonza wins Swissmedic clearance: high‑potency biologics line operational
Lonza announced Swissmedic has granted GMP approval for its new aseptic drug‑product filling line in Stein, Switzerland, enabling contained manufacturing of highly potent biologics including ADCs....
DeepSomatic bridges short‑ and long‑read somatic calling — new benchmarks
Researchers published DeepSomatic, a deep‑learning platform that improves somatic small‑variant detection across short‑ and long‑read sequencing technologies, and released a set of public...
Google’s AI model proposes cancer‑cell hypothesis — lab validation follows
Google’s C2S‑Scale 27B foundation model, developed with Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis identifying an interferon‑conditional amplifier that could boost antigen presentation...
Tempus AI and Whitehawk ally to inform ADC biomarker strategies
Tempus entered a multi‑year collaboration with Whitehawk Therapeutics to apply Tempus’ de‑identified multimodal real‑world database to guide biomarker discovery and indication prioritization...
Pelage raises $120M to fund Phase III for regenerative hair therapy
Pelage Pharmaceuticals closed a $120 million Series B to finance a Phase III program for PP‑405, a topical small molecule designed to activate dormant hair‑follicle stem cells. Investors included...
Adcytherix secures €104M Series A to advance ADC into first‑in‑human trials
Adcytherix announced a €104 million Series A to propel its lead antibody‑drug conjugate program toward first‑in‑human studies. The French biotech raised the financing from institutional...
MilliporeSigma to buy JSR chromatography unit — Protein A capacity boost
Merck KGaA’s MilliporeSigma announced a definitive agreement to acquire the chromatography business of JSR Life Sciences, broadening its downstream processing portfolio with JSR’s Protein A resins...
Novo Nordisk bets $2.1B on Omeros’ MASP‑3 drug—deal filed
Novo Nordisk agreed to acquire global rights to zaltenibart from Omeros in a deal that pays Omeros $340 million upfront and could reach $2.1 billion with milestones. The antibody inhibits MASP‑3,...
Tubulis smashes Europe record—€308M to scale ADCs
Tubulis closed a €308 million (about $356 million) Series C to accelerate clinical development of its antibody‑drug conjugate portfolio, led by lead candidate TUB‑040. The round is among the...
Pelage pulls $120M to fund phase‑3 regenerative hair gel
Pelage Pharmaceuticals raised $120 million in an oversubscribed Series B to support a phase III program for PP‑405, a topical small molecule designed to activate dormant hair‑follicle stem cells....
Kailera nets $600M to back Zepbound‑style obesity shot
Kailera Therapeutics secured $600 million in a Series B led by Bain Capital Private Equity to advance KAI‑9531, a weekly injectable targeting the same receptors as existing dual‑agonist obesity...
Tempus wins $60M ARPA‑H contract for adaptive cancer biomarkers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded Tempus AI a roughly $60 million ARPA‑H contract to provide testing and research services aimed at developing biomarker‑driven adaptive...