Jonathan Smith, Author at Labiotech.eu

About

Reporter for Labiotech. I hail from the UK. I was born in Bristol, studied Neuroscience in the University of Bristol, and trained mice in Eisai, Hertfordshire, for one year. I then tickled locusts for my Ph.D. at the University of Leicester, before eventually ending up here!
Out of the office, I travel, play video games and board games, drink beer and play the piano.

Articles by Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 29 Sep 2022

Baseimmune makes future-proof vaccines with AI

Baseimmune is using artificial intelligence (AI) to design vaccines that can protect against future variants of infectious diseases including COVID-19 and malaria. Big data has taken off in the last…

September 29, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 28 Sep 2022

The 5 hottest private biotechs in South Africa

Biotechnology companies are sprouting in South Africa’s maturing life sciences industry. We’ve listed five private biotech companies that have turned heads in the last few years. South Africa boasts the…

September 28, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 28 Sep 2022

How the alternative protein space aims to address food waste

Food waste impacts the whole of society, including the field of alternative protein. Nick Cooney, managing partner of Lever VC, explains how companies and investors in the space aim to…

September 28, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Interview 27 Sep 2022

Natural killer cells: a thriving frontier in allogeneic cell therapy

Kai Pinkernell, chief medical officer at Glycostem, discusses how natural killer (NK) cell therapies could usher in off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapies. Since their first approvals in 2017, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T…

September 27, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 26 Sep 2022

Rapid diagnostics are needed to tackle antimicrobial resistance

As the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis grows, bacterial infections are becoming harder to treat. Chris Lock, vice president of R&D at the mass spectrometry specialist SCIEX, discusses how rapid diagnostics…

September 26, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 22 Sep 2022

Cartography Biosciences unearths cancer immunotherapy targets

Despite its meteoric growth in the last twenty years, cancer immunotherapy research is hamstrung by a lack of viable drug targets. Cartography Biosciences is using a single-cell sequencing approach to…

September 22, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 21 Sep 2022

The 5 hottest biotech companies making waves in Israel

Despite its small population, Israel hosts a high concentration of startups. Here’s a collection of the hottest biotech companies raising big cash in the Middle Eastern nation. Historically, Israel’s biotech…

September 21, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

In Depth 20 Sep 2022

Looming challenges for Europe’s cell and gene therapy space

The double whammy of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic have posed major logistical challenges for the development of cell and gene therapies (CGTs) in the last two years. In spite…

September 20, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 15 Sep 2022

Adva Biotechnology is using artificial intelligence to manufacture cell therapies

The manufacturing of cell therapies is highly complex, often depending on skilled manual labor. The Israeli startup Adva Biotechnology aims to use automation, optical sensing and artificial intelligence to remove…

September 15, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

In Depth 14 Sep 2022

Rivaling the Golden Triangle at Bristol’s Science Creates hub

The Golden Triangle region hosts much of the U.K.’s biotech innovation. However, there are many hubs emerging across the nation, with Bristol’s Science Creates network being one thriving example. The…

September 14, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 13 Sep 2022

The five hottest private biotech companies in India

India is brimming with biotech companies and a young and skilled workforce. Here’s a quick glance at the private healthcare biotechs in India that captured investors’ imaginations in the last…

September 13, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 12 Sep 2022

Orchestrating the evolving cell therapy supply chain

In a few decades, the cell and gene therapy sector has diversified into many complex technologies. Paul Viggers, chief commercial officer at the U.K. firm TrakCel, explains how the company’s…

September 12, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 8 Sep 2022

Stratosvir is overcoming the viral immunotherapy delivery bottleneck

The U.K. startup Stratosvir is working to tackle the barriers to developing viral immunotherapies for cancer, including allowing intravenous delivery and making it possible to dose multiple times. Cancer immunotherapies…

September 8, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

In Depth 7 Sep 2022

The biggest private biotech investments in August 2022

The healthcare-focused companies Orna Therapeutics, F2G and Sironax bagged the biggest biotech investments in August 2022, with mRNA vaccines, genomics and fermentation technology attracting big funding rounds. As many took…

September 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 31 Aug 2022

How CDMOs keep pace with trends in advanced therapies

Advanced therapies including cell and gene therapies are exploding in demand, but the manufacturing process can be difficult. Jean-Christophe Hyvert, president of biologics and cell & gene at the CDMO…

August 31, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

In Depth 30 Aug 2022

Biotech incubators scramble to tackle lab space crunch

Biotech startups are finding it hard to source lab space in London. Incubators such as Scale Space in the White City hub aim to ease up the pressure by opening…

August 30, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 26 Aug 2022

Epic Bio makes gene therapies by editing the epigenome

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has changed the game for gene therapy, but carries safety risks when cutting DNA. The new U.S. firm Epic Bio aims to reduce these risks by targeting…

August 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 25 Aug 2022

Biotech stocks enjoy brief rally with uncertain winds ahead

Global biotech stocks have briefly risen after sinking steadily over the last year. Whether this recovery lasts is another question. Here are the latest biotech stock trends for 2022. In…

August 25, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Best in Biotech 23 Aug 2022

Five industrial biotech companies making Japan more sustainable

Japan has big plans to lead the world’s push to become more sustainable. Here are five local sustainable tech companies that could help it meet this mission. Japan is best…

August 23, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 22 Aug 2022

Hiring practices are shifting as biotech goes digital

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly prevalent as demand for global collaborations grows. Sajith Wickramasekara, founder and CEO of the cloud lab software provider Benchling, explains how this shift is affecting…

August 22, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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