Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Adamis, Kempharm, Mesoblast, TLC, Verona.
Fresh off raising $640 million in private financing earlier this summer, Germany's Curevac BV burst onto the public market Friday with a $213.3 million Nasdaq IPO. Priced at a top-of-range $16 per share (NADAQ:CVAC), the company's stock rose more than 249% to close at $55.90 Aug. 14, buoyed by enthusiasm for its mRNA vaccine program against SARS-CoV-2. Majority shareholder and longtime Curevac backer Dievini Hopp Biotech Holding GmbH & Co. KG invested €100 million (US$118.3 million) in the company through a concurrent private placement.
TORONTO – The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has accepted documentation supporting a binding letter of intent between Toronto-based Therma Bright Inc. and arm's-length vendor Orpheus Medica Inc. for development of a rapid saliva, COVID-19 test.
HONG KONG – Incheon, South Korea-based Celltrion Inc. is planning to launch two of its three rapid test kits in the U.S. as it plays its part in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Celltrion said Aug. 12 that its Sampinute COVID-19 Antigen MIA and Diatrust COVID-19 IgG/IgM rapid test kits will launch in the U.S. by the third week of August.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Biolog, Biospyder, Capsa Healthcare, Connecticut Biotech, Formsense, Htg Molecular Diagnostics, Newrobo, Newsight Imaging, Protokinetix, Sheba Medical Center, Todos Medical, Virusight Diagnostics, Virushield, Xphyto Therapeutics.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Dr. Falk, JN Nova, Lumos, Merck, Prometheus, Revive.
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