Private Company Edition: Genesis raised $200m, Rapport brought in $150m and Cellares closed a $255m round. Also, Ferring got $300m up front in a royalty deal, Fore Biotherapeutics raised a $75m series D and Vaxxas won a $3.67m Wellcome grant to advance a next-generation typhoid vaccine.

New approach that would eliminate the need for animal dosimetry data for some positron emission tomography drugs draws advisory committee support, although some panelists raise concerns about limited existing data and longer half-life for copper 64, one of the six radionuclides under consideration.

Two new products, one for epilepsy and the other for prostate cancer, were recommended for EU approval during the latest monthly meeting of the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee, the CHMP.

The European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee, the CHMP, is meeting this week to discuss the EU marketing applications for a number of products that have reached the late stages of the regulatory review cycle.