GHO Capital, CBC Group to merge, forming what could be the largest healthcare specialist investor
Reynald Castaneda / endpoints - European healthcare investor GHO Capital and asset management firm CBC Group are set to join forces, with the new entity to manage over $21 billion. In a Wednesday release, they said ...
AI Summary: GHO Capital and CBC Group have agreed to combine their healthcare investment platforms to create roughly a $21 billion specialist investor focused on health assets. The tie-up consolidates capital and deal teams to chase larger transactions across care delivery, pharma and tech—because apparently healthcare needed a bigger private-equity behemoth.
Common asthma drug helps fight hard-to-treat cancers, including aggressive breast cancers, early study finds
livescience - Scientists found that blocking a protein best known for its role in asthma enhances cancer immunotherapy in preclinical models.
AI Summary: Early studies report that a widely used asthma medication can switch off a tumor immune‑evasion pathway and restore anti‑tumor immunity in models and early human data, improving responses in some hard‑to‑treat cancers including aggressive breast tumours. Researchers call for larger trials to confirm clinical benefit and safety.
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