The CEO and CSO of radiopharmaceutical company Ratio Therapeutics, which now has Bristol Myers Squibb as an investor, talk about Ratio’s R&D platforms, use of AI, an independent FAP-targeted asset and trends in radiopharma research such as combining other modalities like ADCs, in this podcast interview with Scrip

Private Company Edition: Publicly held Ascendis outsourced its preclinical AMD program to private Eyconis. Also, Innovation Endeavors revealed a new $630m VC fund and Mirae raised $50m for its first life science fund, while Accent, Comanche and Tr1X each brought in $75m rounds.

Bristol and Regeneron sign separate cell therapy technology pacts, plus deals involving Takeda/ImmunoGen, Serina/AgeX, Cybin/Small Pharma, Taiho/Phost’in, Royalty/Ferring and Aardvark/GRI Bio.

After a nearly two-year collaboration, Novo Nordisk said it has begun talks to buy a controlling stake in French medical device company Biocorp.