Acquisition - March 15, 2023
Pfizer to acquire Seagen
Pfizer and Seagen have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Seagen for 229 USD in cash per Seagen share for a total enterprise value of 43 billion USD. “Together, Pfizer and Seagen seek to accelerate the next generation of cancer breakthroughs and bring new solutions to patients by combining the […]
COVID-19 - March 8, 2023
PAD makes first investments
The partners in Pandemic Antiviral Discovery (PAD) initiative has announced grants totalling more than USD 26 million for 14 research projects aimed at facilitating early-stage development of drugs to treat henipavirus infection and disease in humans. These grants mark the majority of the first investments to come from the PAD initiative, a global philanthropic collaboration […]
Global report - February 22, 2023
First gene therapy for hemophilia B approved in the EU
The European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization (CMA) for CSL’s HEMGENIX, the first and only one-time gene therapy for the treatment of severe and moderately severe hemophilia B in adults without a history of Factor IX inhibitors. In the ongoing clinical trial, HEMGENIX reduced the rate of annual bleeds with a single infusion by delivering […]
Global report - October 29, 2022
NLS Insight: Circadian rhythms
This weekend most countries in Europe will spring backward one hour. We take a closer look upon how our inner clock regulates critical functions like behavior, hormone levels, sleep, body temperature and metabolism. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is not removed in 2022 despite the fact that the European Parliament voted to end daylight saving time in […]
Global report - October 7, 2022
Substandard paediatric medicines linked to 66 child deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) has made a Medical Product Alert that refers to four substandard (contaminated) products, identified in The Gambia and reported to WHO in September 2022. The four products are Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup. The stated manufacturer of these products […]
Careers - September 28, 2022
“Although the war has affected me a lot, I will not lose heart!”
Hello, my name is Anatolii Kovalchuk, and I am a remote developer from Ukraine. This is the story of my experience working for a European startup during the war. My remote working path as a back-end developer for the Danish life science company Knowledge Gate Group began a few months after the full scale invasion […]
