Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has announced it is donating its Unified Data Model (UDM) to The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D.

Immatics, a leading company in the field of cancer immunotherapy, today announced the completion of its Series E financing, raising $58 million.

NeuroRX , Acute Suicidal Ideation and Behavior (ASIB) , NRX-100 (ketamine HCl) , NRX-100 (ketamine HCl) , NeuroRx, a clinical stage biopharmacompany developing the first oral therapy for Acute Suicidal Ideation and Behavior (ASIB), has been granted Fast Track status by the US Food and Drug Administration for its sequential therapy of NRX-100 (ketamine HCl) followed by NRX-101 (D-cycloserine + lurasidone). The company will shortly begin enrolling patients in a pivotal trial of this sequential therapy targeting patients who are admitted to Emergency Departments with ASIB in bipolar depression.  

Nemera received from the German Government Drug Administration (Government Presidium, Tübingen) the Pharmaceutical Drug Manufacturing Authorization according to §13 AMG (German Drug & Medicinal Product Law) at its Neuenburg manufacturing facility in Germany.

VarmX, a Dutch, Leiden based biotech company focusing on the development of therapies in the field of hemostasis and thrombosis, announced the publication in Nature Communications of a ground breaking LUMC study(1) on modified human factor X as a safe and effective reversal agent for prevention and treatment of bleeding in patients taking factor Xa oral anticoagulants.

AstraZeneca and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that they have entered an agreement to jointly develop and commercialise MEDI1341, an alpha-synuclein antibody currently in development as a potential treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD).