TILT Biotherapeutics, a Finnish company developing cancer immunotherapies, reported the final close of its €22m (US$23.8m) round, which was led by Finland’s Lifeline Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.
The pharmaceutical company has inked a strategic collaboration with the drug discovery firm, centering on uncovering novel targets in Alzheimer’s disease.
Merck (MSD outside the US and Canada) is welcoming applications from early-stage biomedical start-ups for its newly launched Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS): which seeks to support technologies for drug discovery and development.
MSD will supply Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in a phase 1/2a clinical trial for the treatment of patients with solid tumors, as part of an agreement with Transgene and BioInvent.
Live biotherapeutic product (LBP) developer, 4D Pharma, says it is building a ‘strong body of evidence’ for its portfolio of bacterial strains in relation to cancer, asthma, and neurodegenerative diseases, while the company also calls its recent dual...
A couple of new developments to report in relation to Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada: the first being the rejection by the US FDA of the company’s application to use its anti-PD-1 therapy, Keytruda, in certain breast cancer patients.
Themis obtains an exclusive licence from Merck to develop vaccine candidates with an undisclosed indication, using its measles virus vector-based platform.
