Investments, Funding & Disinvestment

The expanded facility will combine inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient specialty clinics, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care, neurosciences, sports medicine, physical medicine, and cardiac rehabilitation within a single coordinated care model.

The new system increases the Mega Lab’s haematology testing capacity to more than 1,000 tests per hour while reducing manual handling throughout the testing workflow.

Ohana Specialist Hospital is a 30-bed private facility that specializes in paediatrics as well as obstetrics and gynaecology.

Gavi has indicated that proposals involving vaccine production in Africa will receive particular consideration as part of broader efforts to strengthen regional manufacturing capacity.

The announcement came during Moderna’s Science Day, where the biotechnology company outlined plans to broaden its pipeline across oncology, rare diseases, and immune-mediated disorders.

The transaction drew robust interest from both regional and international investors, with the orderbook reaching approximately US$1.6 billion, making the offering about 3.2 times oversubscribed.

Developed through a partnership between Masdar City, M42, and Attentive Science, Biosphere Labs aims to address one of the biggest challenges facing researchers and biotechnology companies: access to high-quality laboratory infrastructure.

Antares will lead the research phase and apply its proprietary drug-discovery platform to a limited number of oncology targets before Novartis decides whether to exercise licensing options for individual programmes.

The acquisition is expected to strengthen Merck’s position in the rapidly growing life sciences sector, particularly in areas such as cell and gene therapy, precision diagnostics, multi-omics research, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

The move follows Sanner’s acquisition of Springboard in January 2024 and reflects the company’s goal of building a seamless, end-to-end CDMO platform spanning medical technology, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology.