In Depth 27 Jul 2022 The race to uncloak cancer with liquid biopsies Until recently, cancer detection depended on invasive solid tissue sampling that didn’t provide a complete picture. An emerging crowd of biotechs is making it easier to detect and monitor cancer with liquid biopsies. The notion that a person’s blood can reveal a wealth of health information looked so shiny that the infamous blood diagnostics company […] July 27, 2022 - 10 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 30 Mar 2022 BIO-Europe Spring 2022: The Highlights BIO-Europe Spring is one of Europe’s biggest biotech partnering events with discussion topics ranging from platform technologies and manufacturing to biotech investments. Here are some of the key take-home reports from the proceedings, published as they happen. BIO-Europe Spring 2022 is in full swing this week with a long lineup of online topic discussions. Labiotech.eu […] March 30, 2022 - 13 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 30 Sep 2019 Update: Mixed Results for Adocia as Legal Fight with Eli Lilly Comes to a Close Update (30/09/2019): A long legal battle between Adocia and Eli Lilly over a fast-acting insulin treatment development deal has finished with mixed results for Adocia. Eli Lilly has now paid €13M to Adocia, after the US Arbitration Association Panel supported Adocia’s claim last year. The payment consists of a milestone payment of €10.1M plus interest. […] September 30, 2019 - 4 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Inside Labiotech 6 Dec 2018 We Are Now More Than 150,000 Awesome Biotechers Every Month Woohooo! We’ve hit 150,000 unique visitors per month to our site! What a beautiful number. We are so happy to be able to bring you great content every day and have our biotech network grow with more amazing people. Why this makes us so happy? Because it means that, 150,000 different people stopped by our website […] December 6, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 4 Sep 2018 The EMA Approves the First Nanobody from Ablynx Update: The EMA has officially approved Cablivi for the treatment of adults with acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, following its earlier recommendation in June. The drug has also been accepted for priority review by the US FDA, with a decision due on 6 Feb 2019. Published 29.6.18 Just a few months after Sanofi acquired Ablynx in a multi-billion euro […] September 4, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 29 Aug 2018 How Big is the Investment Gap Between Biotech and Digital? (Smaller Than You Think…) Many people outside of biotech may wonder how the size of the biotech industry compares to the digital industry, and even biotech experts often don’t know the answer. Here we’ll take a look at how the two industries compare and how they are expected to develop in the future. We cannot get around the fact […] August 29, 2018 - 7 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 28 Aug 2018 Update: Gilead and Novartis’s CAR T-Cell Therapies Approved in Europe Update: Following on from earlier approvals in the US, the European Commission announced it has given marketing approval for both Gilead’s Yescarta and Novartis’s Kymriah for treatment of patients with various forms of blood cancer. Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) can be used to treat adults with a relapsed or refractory form of the blood cancer diffuse large […] August 28, 2018 - 4 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 24 Jul 2018 Meet the Dutch Scientists who Invented Keytruda, “The President’s Drug” Known for curing US President Jimmy Carter’s cancer, Keytruda continues to benefit many other cancer patients. The inventors told us their story, from the drug’s early days to their current role as executives of the biotech unicorn Aduro. Since 2014, the cancer drug Keytruda, also known as pembrolizumab, continues to be widely sought after due […] July 24, 2018 - 6 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 29 Jun 2018 Update: Yet Another ADC Company Makes Bank, This Time in Series B Update (29.06.2018): NBE Therapeutics has extended its Series B fundraising round by 20M CHF (€17.3M), reaching a total of 40M CHF (€34.6M) for the round. Novo Holdings joins the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and the PPF Capital Partners Fund as a major shareholder of the Swiss biotech, which continues to develop its ADCs for improved […] June 29, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 25 Apr 2018 Planting the Seeds to Grow the Italian Biotech Industry Many European countries, including the UK, France, Germany, and Switzerland, boast a thriving biotech industry. Others are still a step behind when it comes to industrializing their research. Let’s take a look at how Italy is pushing through to make it to the first league. Italy is certainly a pioneer and leader in life science research — […] April 25, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 23 Apr 2018 The First CAR-T Therapy Is Not Living Up to Commercial Expectations Novartis’ Kymriah, the first approved CAR-T therapy worldwide, has performed far below sales expectations in the last quarter. The news highlights the challenges CAR-T therapies still face before becoming a commercially viable treatment option. CAR-T therapy has shown impressive results treating the cancer of patients for which all other treatments fail. One would expect this […] April 23, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 3 Apr 2018 Cheese-Producing Bacteria Could Help Reverse Type 1 Diabetes ActoBio Therapeutics has received permission from the FDA to start a clinical trial for a type 1 diabetes treatment that uses a bacterial strain also used in cheese production. After being cleared by the FDA, ActoBio, based in Belgium, plans to begin a PhaseIb/IIa study for its drug, AG019, to treat early-onset type 1 diabetes. What makes […] April 3, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Editorial Team Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email