CEO Thomas Feldthus's new broom is sweeping clean at Saniona with the closure of its US operations and an aim of exploiting the significant interest being shown across its pipeline programs.

Sio Gene, Genocea, Solid Biosciences, Saniona and Black Diamond join First Wave, Zosano, Vallon, Finch, Magenta, ProQR and Imara on the growing list of biopharma firms reducing headcount to make their cash last until valuations return to a level that may support new fundraising. 

Public Company Edition: Only nine drug developers went public in the US, raising $807m in the first quarter, versus 32 IPOs raising $5.2bn in Q1 of last year. Also, MoonLake closed its SPAC merger, Sanofi priced €650m in sustainability-linked bonds in €1.5bn note sale, and Kaleido will cease operations.

Orchard and Zealand are the latest European players to succumb to a financial pinch in the biotech sector, streamlining their pipelines and laying off staff to save on expenses.