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On May 11th, Ginkgo Bioworks and Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. agreed to a merger in what is one of the largest SPAC deals to date. Totaling $17.5 billion, the deal …
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On May 5th, Crown Bioscience (CrownBio), a leading CRO in the areas of drug discovery and biomarker discovery announced the acquisition of OcellO BV, a 10-year-old Dutch CRO. The financial …
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On May 4th, Oculis, a Swiss biopharmaceutical, announced it raised over $50 million in an oversubscribed Series C financing. The capital will be used to advance its therapies to the …
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The number of special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) acquisitions is rising in the biotech industry due to its transformative way of changing how a company goes public. SPAC, also known …
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On April 28th, Pfizer announced that it has bought the privately held infectious disease biotech Amplyx Pharmaceuticals for an undisclosed sum. From the deal, Pfizer is expected to gain a …
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On April 28th, Boundless Bio announced the closure of the oversubscribed Series B financing of $105 million. The money will be used to advance multiple therapeutics targeting extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), …
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April 20, 2021 – The European Commission said today that EU antitrust regulators will probe into Illumina’s $7.1 billion proposal to acquire GRAIL, Inc. following a request made by six …
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April 15th, 2021—Earlier today, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. made yet another acquisition announcement, this time for a leading global Contract Research Organization (CRO). The Waltham, MA-based giant has entered a …
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On April 9th, Sanofi announced buying Tidal therapeutics, a preclinical biotech company developing messenger RNA-based treatments for cancer. The French biopharma giant will be paying $160 million upfront and could …
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On April 5th, Inscripta, Inc. announced the closing of their Series E financing round, bringing the total raised by the company to $409.5 million. It also announced the first commercial …
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