ISA Pharmaceuticals BV raised €8 million (US$10.5 million) in an internal financing round to fund a Phase II trial of its therapeutic vaccine for cervical cancer, ISA-HPV. Read More

For a healthy pregnancy to have the best chance of surviving, the cells lining the uterus must undergo a short-lived burst of inflammatory activity about five days after ovulation, which must come to a halt 48 hours later, researchers have found. The discovery suggested new ways of treating women who suffer recurrent miscarriages. Read More

Undeterred by the recent string of high-profile failures in the field, Kareus Therapeutics SA moved its first-in-class drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease, KU-046, into a Phase I trial in healthy volunteers. Read More

arGEN-X BV is making strides in the commercialization of its antibody platform, announcing an extension of its existing collaboration with Shire plc in rare diseases and at the same time advancing the lead in-house program into a Phase Ib first-in-man trial. Read More

• CrystalGenomics Inc., of Seoul, South Korea, said it received a draft of the clinical study report from the recently completed Phase IIa study of CG400549, an antibiotic candidate for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Read More