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Bridgepoint Credit

Bridgepoint Credit announces pricing of debut CLO

London (ots/PRNewswire) - Bridgepoint Credit today (14 November 2020) announced the pricing of its debut European collateralised loan obligation ("CLO"), the EUR302 million Bridgepoint CLO 1 DAC ("Bridgepoint CLO 1"). In line with Bridgepoint's responsible investing principles, Bridgepoint 1 contains specific ESG eligibility criteria which detail restrictions on the industries in which the CLO will invest. Arranged by ...

Merck Healthcare Germany

Merck Announces Out-Licensing Agreement for Investigational Atacicept with Vera Therapeutics

Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for UK and US based media - Merck out-licenses Phase IIb-ready atacicept to Vera Therapeutics - Phase IIa trial conducted by Merck shows promising results in IgA nephropathy (IgAN), also known as "Berger's disease" - Out-licencing deal includes 10% equity in Vera Therapeutics and up to EUR 605 million in development ...

Servier

Amgen, Cytokinetics And Servier Announce Topline Results From GALACTIC-HF, A Phase 3 Trial Of Omecamtiv Mecarbil In Patients With Heart Failure

Thousand Oaks, Calif., South San Francisco, Calif., and Suresnes, France (ots/PRNewswire) - - Trial Met Primary Composite Endpoint of Reduction in Cardiovascular Death or Heart Failure Events - Trial Did Not Meet Secondary Endpoint of Reduction in Cardiovascular Death - Results Will Be Presented in Late Breaking ...

ATP Global Marketing and Communications Team

Flightdocs Joins the ATP Family of Software Solutions

San Francisco and Bonita Springs, Florida (ots/PRNewswire) - Flightdocs to become a part of ATP, creating a global leader of information services and software solutions focused on aircraft safety and reliability. ATP and Flightdocs are pleased to announce the creation of one of the largest providers of software solutions and information services within the aviation industry. With Flightdocs joining ATP, the company will ...

Cambridge Quantum Computing Limited

Cambridge Quantum Computing Performs the World's First Quantum Natural Language Processing Experiment

Cambridge, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Cambridge Quantum Computing ("CQC") announces that they have used the "natively quantum" structure of natural language to open up an entirely new realm of possible applications by translating grammatical sentences into quantum circuits, and then implementing the resulting ...

Novo Nordisk

Saxenda® Demonstrated Improvements in BMI and Body Weight in Adolescents With Obesity

Bagsværd, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - Novo Nordisk today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine published results of a phase 3 trial evaluating the investigational use of Saxenda® (liraglutide 3.0 mg) in adolescents (aged ...

Firmenich

Firmenich to Acquire DRT From Ardian

Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Firmenich to Become a Key Player in Renewable Ingredients for Perfumery and Beyond Firmenich today announced that it has entered into exclusivity with Ardian, Tikehau Capital and family shareholders to acquire Les Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques ("DRT"). DRT is a world leader in plant-based chemistry, mainly from pine trees, and is one of the leading suppliers globally of high quality, ...

Horizn

Horizn Wins Best of Show Award at Finovate Europe 2020

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - Accelerates digital adoption for financial institutions - Horizn is excited to announce it has been awarded "Best of Show" at Finovate Europe 2020 in Berlin. Competing with more than 60 participants, Finovate selected Horizn, which helps banks dramatically accelerate digital adoption across all channels and improve the customer experience. Horizn's proprietary platform equips frontline employees ...

Hamamatsu Photonics Europe GmbH

Hamamatsu Photonics has Developed a Palm-sized FTIR Engine Capable of Highly Sensitive Detection of Near-infrared Light at Wavelengths Ranging From 1.1 to 2.5 Micrometers

Hamamatsu City, Japan (ots/PRNewswire) - By applying its own unique microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, Hamamatsu Photonics has successfully developed a palm-sized "Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) engine C15511-01" offering high sensitivity to near-infrared light at wavelengths from 1.1 ...

Adjust GmbH

Adjust Expands Presence in Latin America, Opening Office in Mexico City

Mexico City, San Francisco and Berlin (ots/PRNewswire) - Company bolsters leadership team, becomes first Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP) in the Mexican market Adjust (https://www.adjust.com/), the industry leader in mobile measurement, fraud prevention and cybersecurity, today announced it is expanding operations in Latin America (LATAM), with the opening of an office ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

The 2020 SNSF Scientific Image Competition is underway

Bern (ots) - Capturing the beauty of science: the Swiss National Science Foundation is once again holding its photo and short video competition in 2020. Nadine Wietlisbach, director of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, will chair the jury. The images will be exhibited for the first time at the Biel/Bienne Photography Festival in May and will be freely available to the public and the media. The 2020 edition of the SNSF Scientific ...

Greater Zurich Area AG

Eight new Greater Zurich Honorary Ambassadors

Greater Zurich Area AG

Greater Zurich Area appoints Honorary Ambassadors for the global promotion of Zurich as a technology and business location

FDI World Dental Federation

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New FDI World Dental Federation care pathway promotes dentist-patient collaboration to manage partial tooth loss

Sophia Genetics

ADC Therapeutics and SOPHiA GENETICS Partner for Biomarker Discovery in Pivotal Phase II Clinical Trial

Study to identify genomic markers associated with clinical response to ADCT-402 (loncastuximab tesirine) in relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - ADC Therapeutics, an oncology drug discovery and development company that specializes in the development ...

Novo Nordisk

Oral semaglutide demonstrated cardiovascular safety in people with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease or high cardiovascular risk in PIONEER 6 trial

San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - Novo Nordisk today announced that the PIONEER 6 trial achieved its primary endpoint by demonstrating non-inferiority of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) with oral semaglutide compared with placebo, both in addition to standard of care. The primary endpoint was defined as ...

Novo Nordisk

Oral semaglutide showed superior reductions in blood sugar vs Jardiance® and non-inferior blood sugar reductions vs Victoza® in adults with type 2 diabetes at 26 weeks

Abstracts 54-OR and 55-OR Secondary data at 52 weeks demonstrated statistically significant blood sugar reductions and statistically significant reduction of body weight vs both Jardiance® and Victoza® San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - Findings presented today from two phase 3a clinical trials evaluated oral ...

Labtwin GmbH

LabTwin Partners With BioRN to Bring Voice-powered Technology Into German Labs

Berlin (ots/PRNewswire) - LabTwin GmbH, the world's first voice and AI-powered digital lab assistant, has joined forces with BioRN Life Science Cluster to expand its offering to the Rhine-Main-Neckar Region in Germany. As part of this collaboration, BioRN members will have access to LabTwin's platform. LabTwin uses machine learning and voice-recognition technologies to ...

Sophia Genetics

SOPHiA GENETICS Raises $77 Million to Accelerate the Democratization of Data-Driven Medicine

San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - SOPHiA GENETICS, a leading health tech company, announced today the closing of a $77 million investment round to accelerate the democratization of Data-Driven Medicine. The round was led by Generation Investment Management, a pioneer of sustainable investing, with offices in London and San Francisco. Generation were joined by Idinvest ...

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

SNSF image competition 2019: Participate and share unexpected insights into science

Bern (ots) - Following the success of the first two editions, the Swiss National Science Foundation has decided to stage its competition for images and short videos from the world of science for a third time. The best entries will be showcased in various exhibitions and via social media. The over 800 entries in 2017 and 2018, and the enthusiasm generated among the ...

Booking.com B.V

Booking.com Names Matt Swann as Chief Technology Officer

Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Former top tech exec from StubHub, Citibank and Amazon joins leading digital travel platform Today Booking.com, one of the world's largest travel e-commerce companies and a digital technology leader, announced that Matt Swann has joined the company's leadership team as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Matt will lead Booking.com's full stack technology strategy to support the company's ...

Generation Investment Management

CDPQ and Generation Investment Management Launch Unique Long-Term Sustainable Equity Partnership

Montréal and London (ots/PRNewswire) - - USD$3bn available to invest in sustainable, resilient businesses - Strategy built on CDPQ and Generation's shared commitment to long term investing - The investment in FNZ, announced today, represents first transaction La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ("CDPQ") and Generation Investment Management LLP ("Generation") ...

Jfrog

JFrog Secures $165 Million Investment to Lead Universal DevOps in the Enterprise

San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - Funding follows the launch of JFrog Enterprise Plus, a first-of-its-kind, universal DevOps platform for end-to-end binaries management and distribution JFrog (https://jfrog.com/), the universal DevOps technology leader, is announcing a $165 million Series D funding round led by Insight Venture Partners (http://insightpartners.com/). ...

Kenshoo

Kenshoo Announces Support of Apple Search Ads

San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - Kenshoo's new relationship enables marketers to capitalize on Apple Search Ads' continued growth and entrance into more markets at scale Kenshoo (http://www.kenshoo.com) (http://www.Kenshoo.com), a global leader in marketing technology, today announced it has become an Apple Search Ads Authorized Reseller, adding support for Apple Search Ads to the Kenshoo Marketing Platform. Apple Search ...