InDex Pharmaceuticals has named Peter Zerhouni its new CEO. Mr Zerhouni joins the company, which is developing lead product Kappaproct as a treatment of severe ulcerative colitis, from Diamyd Medical where he was also CEO. He succeeds Jesper Wiklund, who led the company since 2011. 

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Germany's drug discovery services company Evotec has formed a tight bond with Harvard researchers, with both parties expected to share the rewards of their CureBeta pancreatic beta-cell regeneration project if new strategic partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals develops new diabetes therapies from their research.

Sweden's BioInvent forges links with researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, and Cancer Research Technology, the commercial arm of charity Cancer Research UK, to identify new therapeutic antibodies for oncology.