Public Company Edition: iTeos, Annexon, Nurix and Inozyme went public on 23 July and now CureVac had added its name to the IPO queue for what could be a large offering. Also, BioNTech raises $511.5m as COVID-19 vaccine progresses and PTC gets $650m from sale of risdiplam royalties. 

The US government is helping Sonica develop ADAM, a patch monitor that tracks the user's breathing patterns and other physiologic signals to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Point-of-care/near-patient testing has been “two years away from major breakthrough” for at least two decades, but fast access to data via automation and IT means that progress might change at last. How the tests are paid for remains an issue. The future of POC was the theme of an investor discussion at the first DxPx conference, held during the Medica 2019 event in Germany.

Public Company Edition: Of five drug developers expected to go public, four have preclinical or early clinical candidates, while the one that could not find a market for its IPO is in Phase III. Also, Biohaven, Zymeworks and Kura raise $100m or more in follow-on offerings.