Emerging Company Profile: The US biotech’s Trillium platform, which has caught the eye of Bayer, could enhance radioligand pharmacokinetics and bioavailability while reducing side effects, enabling the development of both therapeutics and imaging compounds.

Private Company Edition: Patient Square’s private equity fund, which surpassed its $3bn fundraising goal, may invest broadly across health care but the firm already has invested heavily in biopharma. Also, investor Dimension launches with a $350m specialized VC fund and Alto increased its series B to $60m.

Private Company Edition: While the tough state of financing for publicly traded drug developers continues, venture capital firms and private biopharma companies revealed billions of dollars in new VC funds and start-up financings, including $100m-plus mega-rounds for Tessa, Alladapt and ImCheck.