
Breaking news from across the pharma sector

12 February 2026 -- Munich and Planegg, Germany -- leon-nanodrugs GmbH today announced the successful closing of a financing round, with participation from both existing and new investors. The round was significantly oversubscribed, underscoring strong investor conviction in LEON’s proprietary technology, commercial readiness, and accelerating global demand for scalable nanoparticle manufacturing solutions.

11 February 2026 -- California, US and Pune, India -- OptraSCAN, a digital pathology company integrated with AI-enabled diagnostics, today announced the launch of BactoSiA, an AI-assisted tuberculosis (TB) treatment monitoring and follow-up solution designed to assist one of the most widely used tools in TB care: sputum smear microscopy.

11 February 2026 -- Teesside, UK -- FUJIFILM Biotechnologies, a world leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines, and advanced therapies, celebrated the grand opening of its expanded site in Teesside, UK, today.

11 February 2026 -- London, UK -- Over 350 delegates from leading and upcoming drug discovery and technology companies from the UK, Nordic and many other European regions, plus investment firms throughout Europe, will get together in London on 23rd April, 2026 for the 22nd Annual Anglonordic Life Science Conference

10 February 2026 -- London, UK -- Cenevo, which specializes in lab management systems, automation, orchestration, data management and AI technology for life sciences, is introducing two new AI agents as part of its focus on helping scientists operate faster, smarter and with less manual overhead, without sacrificing control or compliance.

10 February 2026 -- Eschborn, Germany -- AnalytiChem, manufacturer of specialized laboratory equipment, reagents and consumables, will highlight its growing product portfolio of reference materials, specialized laboratory chemicals & reagents, consumables and sample preparation solutions at Analytica 2026.

9 February 2026 -- Kolding, Denmark -- Unplanned downtime costs manufacturers billions of euros in lost revenue each year. Idle process lines cause product loss, extra cleaning, production delays, wasted water and potential damage to machinery. The AI-based condition monitoring solution ClariotTM from Alfa Laval provides 24/7 surveillance and actionable insights that enhance uptime and optimize resource efficiency.

9 February 2026 -- Cambridge, UK, and Wisconsin, US -- SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life sciences, and BellBrook Labs, a pioneer in high-throughput screening (HTS) assay tools, today announced a collaboration to advance cancer research.

9 February 2026 -- Utah, US -- Carterra Inc., the leading provider of technologies enabling high-throughput biology, today announced the launch of the Carterra Vega High-Throughput Surface Plasmon Resonance (HT-SPR) instrument.

5 February 2026 -- Sheffield, UK -- SynGenSys, a biotechnology company designing synthetic gene promoter systems to address critical bottlenecks in biopharma manufacturing and enhance cell and gene therapy development, today announced the launch of its Liver.SET™ library of liver-specific synthetic promoters.

4 February 2026 -- Komaki, Japan -- santec Holdings Corporation is pleased to announce the establishment of a new European service centre.

3 February 2026 -- Colorado, US -- Cirena, pioneers in long and ultra-long, high purity RNA synthesis for gene editing and functional genomics, today announced its public launch following successful delivery of high-quality long RNA to leading academic and pharmaceutical research teams across the U.S., Europe, and Japan.