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More News! 13 Oct 2017

German Biotech Gets €47M To Treat Painful Inflammatory Disease

InflaRx has raised $55M (€47M) in a Series D fundraising in order to get its lead anti-inflammatory drug, IFX-1, through late-stage development. A year after its €31M Series C, InflaRx is closing a Series D round. The company has raised a total of $55M (€47M) from a team of US investors co-led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, […]

October 13, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 13 Oct 2017

Sanofi Invests €170M in French Facilities to Expand Flu Vaccine Supply

Sanofi Pasteur will expand its main vaccine manufacturing site to increase distribution of its quadrivalent flu vaccine VaxigripTetra around the world. Sanofi will invest €170M in expanding its vaccine production facilities in Val de Reuil, France, which also hosts its global vaccine distribution center, from which it currently ships 900 million vaccine doses a year. The company plans to complete the expansion by […]

October 13, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 12 Oct 2017

Can Catalonia Keep its Record Biomedical Investment After the Bank Drain?

A new study reveals Catalonia achieved a record investment in biomedicine last year. But can the region keep it up after its main banks moved out last week? CataloniaBio has released an annual report on the performance of the biomedical sector in Catalonia. The results reveal that the sector raised a record €153M in 2016, an […]

October 12, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 12 Oct 2017

No More Seasonal Flu Shots: British Biotech’s Universal Antiviral Raises £13M

VirionHealth kicks off the development of a broad spectrum antiviral for all influenza strains and other viruses like RSV with a £13M investment in Series A. VirionHealth is developing a new type of antiviral therapy with the potential to target multiple types of viruses at once. The treatment is based on natural antivirals called defective interfering viruses. They consist […]

October 12, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 11 Oct 2017

French Gene Therapy to Cure Retinitis Pigmentosa Enters the Clinic

Horama has been authorized to start a Phase I/II trial in France testing HORA-PDE6B, a one-off gene therapy with the potential to cure retinitis pigmentosa. Based in Paris, Horama develops gene therapies to treat genetic diseases affecting vision. The company will now start a Phase I/II clinical trial that will recruit 12 patients at the Nantes […]

October 11, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Interview 11 Oct 2017

Are Precision Medicine and Digital Health Here Yet?

I connected online with digital health, genomics and precision medicine expert Vishal Gulati to talk about how the advent of data-based healthcare will reshape how patients are treated. A partner at VC firm Draper Esprit, Vishal Gulati focuses his investments on genomics and digital health. Or, as he describes it, on “companies that create value for patients using the […]

October 11, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Interview 9 Oct 2017

The Woman Developing the Next Generation of Cancer Immunotherapy

Özlem Türeci discusses the future of individualized cancer therapy and her journey to become an entrepreneur and take science to patients. As a trained physician and immunologist, Dr. Özlem Türeci has led her own research group with Prof. Ugur Sahin at the University of Mainz, Germany, since 2000. But academic research was not enough for her, […]

October 9, 2017 - 8 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Medical Museion Copenhagen Mind the Gut exhibition

News and Trends 7 Oct 2017

Mind the Gut: Copenhagen Exhibition Explores Bacteria and Feelings

The exhibition Mind the Gut at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen opens its doors to visitors to challenge the view of our own bodies. The Medical Museion in Copenhagen has expanded its exhibition area to make way for Mind the Gut, an exploration of the complex relationship between our brain and bowels through art, science, […]

October 7, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 6 Oct 2017

Study Reveals No Evidence to Support Most European Cancer Drug Approvals

A new study concludes the majority of cancer drugs approved by the EMA between 2009 and 2013 weren’t backed by sufficient evidence that they are effective. A team of researchers from King’s College London and the London School of Economics has published a new study reviewing the clinical data used to back the approval of […]

October 6, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 5 Oct 2017

Spanish Biotech’s Stock Surges After Decision to Move out of Barcelona

Oryzon Genomics announced it will move its headquarters from Barcelona to Madrid days after the Catalonian independence vote, making its stock grow by 30%. Oryzon Genomics, a Spanish biotech leveraging epigenetics to treat cancer, announced on Tuesday its decision to move out of Barcelona and establish its new headquarters in Madrid, citing the “optimization of […]

October 5, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 Richard Henderson Heptares Therapeutics

News and Trends 5 Oct 2017

British Biotech Founder Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

Richard Henderson, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017, founded Heptares Therapeutics to apply his Nobel-winning technology to discover new medicines. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo-electron microscopy. This technology, now widely used in structural biology labs, is considered a stepping […]

October 5, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

immatics amgen fundraising cancer immunotherapy

News and Trends 4 Oct 2017

Amgen Joins €50M German Fundraising for T-Cell Receptor Cancer Immunotherapy

Immatics has completed a $58M (€50M) round with the participation of Amgen, not long after both companies signed a billion-dollar partnership. Immatics, a company based in Tübingen specialized in cancer immunotherapy, has announced that its Series E round has reached $58M (€50M). Existing investors including dievini Hopp Biotech, Wellington Partners, and AT Impf took part in the fundraising, which […]

October 4, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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Articles by Clara Rodríguez Fernández

German Biotech Gets €47M To Treat Painful Inflammatory Disease

Sanofi Invests €170M in French Facilities to Expand Flu Vaccine Supply

Can Catalonia Keep its Record Biomedical Investment After the Bank Drain?

No More Seasonal Flu Shots: British Biotech’s Universal Antiviral Raises £13M

French Gene Therapy to Cure Retinitis Pigmentosa Enters the Clinic

Are Precision Medicine and Digital Health Here Yet?

The Woman Developing the Next Generation of Cancer Immunotherapy

Mind the Gut: Copenhagen Exhibition Explores Bacteria and Feelings

Study Reveals No Evidence to Support Most European Cancer Drug Approvals

Spanish Biotech’s Stock Surges After Decision to Move out of Barcelona

British Biotech Founder Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

Amgen Joins €50M German Fundraising for T-Cell Receptor Cancer Immunotherapy

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