The second in our series of skills webinars for the BIA Finance and Tax Community explored the key considerations for biotech companies expanding overseas, with insights and reflections from advisors and company leaders with firsthand international experience.
This guest blog from Cam Watson, biosolutions startup advisor, draws on a broader analysis of Japan’s biosolutions ecosystem, examining company formation, corporate engagement, manufacturing capacity and growth-stage funding dynamics.
Outpost Bio has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to build frontier AI models that make human microbiology computable, enabling more precise prediction and optimization of intervention outcomes.
This 2026 update provides a critical reality check on the UK biotech sector, benchmarking the extraordinary resilience of female leaders against a plateauing representation and a shifting global tide of systemic challenges.
Theolytics has been awarded €8 million in non-dilutive grant funding from Horizon Europe 2025, the European Union’s flagship research and innovation funding programme.
The BioIndustry Association (BIA) has recognised the achievements of Dr Ruth McKernan CBE, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, investor and former Chair of the BIA Board, with the inaugural Chiswell Lifetime Achievement Award.
Infinitopes announced its second close of its seed financing round, securing an additional $15.4 million and bringing the total raised to $35.1 million.
Brainomix has been selected by Boehringer Ingelheim, the leading biopharmaceutical company providing therapeutic options for interstitial lung disease (ILD).
AAVantgarde Bio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering therapies for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), has announced the completion of enrollment in LUCE-1.
OutSee, a genomics and drug discovery company pioneering a unique AI-based predictive genomics approach to target discovery, today announced the closure of its £2.5 million seed funding round.
Complement Therapeutics is one of the leading new gene therapy companies entering into clinical trials. Based on research from the University of Manchester, the company's lead candidate CTx001 is a novel adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy targeting an advanced form of dry AMD that leads to irreversible vision loss, with limited therapeutic options. With strong funding and an experienced management team, Complement has made rapid progress and this Fast Track designation comes after IND clearance in December.
Pioneer Group, a specialist in life science infrastructure and venture building, and global biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, have crowned Alceus Bio the winner of their 2025 Golden Ticket programme.
Relation and healthcare investment firm Deerfield Management, a current investor, has launched a new research collaboration to advance therapeutic discovery projects for diseases of high unmet need.
