Gilead's remdesivir is first drug fully approved by FDA to treat COVID-19. Roche and Atea team up on an investigational direct acting antiviral while Moderna reaches the 30,000-patient enrollment target for its Phase III COVE study of the company's investigational mRNA vaccine. 

Among the six new investigational products to make it onto the European Medicines Agency’s priority medicines scheme, five were gene therapies.

The French drugmaker is looking to consolidate its dominance of the Pompe disease area by filing its successor to Myozyme in Europe, but Amicus Therapeutics' potential rival AT-GAA is on the horizon.

Relay raises $400m to kick off July’s second big week of US initial public offerings. Also, Ocumension and Immunotech launch Hong Kong IPOs, Amgen invests $421m in BeiGene’s $2.08bn offering, Cytokinetics gets up to $400m in deal and investment funding, and Imvax closes $111m series C round.