News and Trends 7 Sep 2017 Scottish Oncology Biotech Aims for €96M IPO in the Nasdaq Nucana Biomed has filed for a Nasdaq IPO in which it expects to raise up to $115M (€96M) to support the progression of its oncology pipeline. Nucana Biomed, a biotech based in Edinburgh, specializes in using phosphoramidate chemistry to upgrade nucleoside analogs, a common form of chemotherapy drugs. With its pipeline reaching late stages of […] September 7, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 7 Sep 2017 Circassia Moves Away from a Failed Allergy Pipeline with Phase III Success Circassia has positive Phase III results from its respiratory pipeline, great news for the company after abandoning its allergy immunotherapies due to clinical failure. Circassia Pharmaceuticals, based in Oxford, has reported a Phase III success with Duaklir, a drug combination for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The trial was run by AstraZeneca, […] September 7, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 6 Sep 2017 MSD Offers €464M to Buy German Biotech Fighting Cancer with RNA MSD is back in the RNA field with the acquisition of Rigontec, a German biotech harnessing RNA interference to make the immune system attack cancer cells. After selling selling Sirna Therapeutics three years ago for almost a tenth of the acquisition price, it seemed like MSD was out of the RNA field. However, the big […] September 6, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 6 Sep 2017 A €344M Partnership will Develop Bicycle Drugs for Hemophilia Bicycle Therapeutics has partnered with Bioverativ to develop a new class of drugs for patients with rare blood disorders like hemophilia and sickle cell disease. Bicycle Therapeutics, a money-magnet biotech founded by Greg Winter, has closed a deal with US firm Bioverativ for the discovery, development and commercialization of bicycle drugs for rare blood disorders. […] September 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 6 Sep 2017 Europe Gives the Antibiotic Resistance Fight a Major Cash Injection Six European countries, the UK’s Wellcome Trust and South Africa have committed €56.5M to the GARDP to work on breaking antibiotic resistance. The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) has received this week €56.5M of funding to boost its activity, focused in promoting the development of new antibiotics. The investment comes mainly from Germany, […] September 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 5 Sep 2017 French Biotech Lures Big Pharma with Fibrosis Treatments This week, Inventiva has received a milestone payment from Boehringer Ingelheim and extended its collaboration with AbbVie. Today, Boehringer Ingelheim has decided today to take the next step forward and start development of the first candidate against idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) from a research partnership with Inventiva. This has triggered a €2.5M payment for the French biotech, which is […] September 5, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 5 Sep 2017 Swiss Biotech Raises €8M in First Closing of Series B to Develop Cancer Vaccines AMAL Therapeutics has raised €8M to push its colorectal cancer vaccine ATP128 into clinical trials and keep developing its tumor vaccine pipeline. AMAL Therapeutics, a young biotech based in Geneva, is getting a boost for its pipeline of cancer vaccines thanks to a new funding round. The first tranche of its Series B fundraising has gathered €8M (CHF 8.8M) […] September 5, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 4 Sep 2017 British Biotech Developing New Antibiotics Enters the London Stock Exchange Destiny Pharma has started trading on the London Stock Exchange to support its search for new antibiotics that can fight resistant bacteria like MRSA. Destiny Pharma, based in Brighton, UK, has entered the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange with an initial placement of £15.3M (€16.7M), which put its starting market cap at £65.4M […] September 4, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 1 Sep 2017 Allergan Takes to the Clinic a New Alzheimer’s Drug from a €3Bn Deal Allergan’s partner Heptares Therapeutics has dosed the first patient with a GPCR drug to treat major symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. A year ago, Allergan signed a massive deal of up to €3Bn with Heptares Therapeutics for the development of drugs that target G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a protein superfamily that currently comprises the target of around […] September 1, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 31 Aug 2017 The FDA Approves the First CAR-T Cell Therapy for Cancer The FDA has approved Novartis’ CAR-T therapy Kymriah, opening the way for a new generation of cell therapy treatments against cancer. Novartis’ Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), formerly known as CTL019, has become the first gene-modified cell therapy approved in the US. The FDA has approved the therapy for relapsing B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children and young […] August 31, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 30 Aug 2017 German Scientists Publish New Mechanism of Action Against Alzheimer’s Researchers at the German biotech Probiodrug have published today the detailed mechanism of action of a drug that might succeed in treating Alzheimer’s where many others have failed. Probiodrug is developing a therapeutic antibody with a unique mode of action against Alzheimer’s, PBD-C06. The company announced yesterday the publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry of the detailed binding […] August 30, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 29 Aug 2017 Gilead’s €10Bn Buyout of Kite Pharma Shakes European CAR-T Stocks European CAR-T stocks have jumped following Gilead’s announcement that it will acquire Kite Pharma, Novartis’ main competitor to launch the first therapy. Yesterday, Gilead bought a $11.9Bn (€9.9Bn) ticket to enter the final leg of the race to launch the first CAR-T therapy, a technology that is expected to change how cancer is treated. Despite the technology’s […] August 29, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email