Ipsen’s business strategy calls for accessing external innovation across its pipeline, combined with geographic expansion, realizing the unmet potential of its marketed products and business efficiencies in manufacturing and operations.

Copenhagen-based start-up IO Biotech has raised a hefty €127m from a group of VC investors to accelerate its IDO- and PD-L1 targeted immuno-oncology approaches to the treatment of cancer.

Roche’s first-in-class one-dose antiviral Xofluza has been approved for marketing in the EU to treat influenza in patients aged 12 years or over, and for post-exposure prophylaxis.