Interview 4 May 2017 This Belgian Startup is building the Next Generation of Diagnostic Tests DNAlytics changes the diagnosing game. The company builds in vitro diagnosis tests that save many years for patients! I met with Thibault, the founder, to know more about the company. Based in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, DNAlytics develops revolutionary disease diagnostic processes that complement conventional methods. Their main product is RheumaKit, a test that analyzes biological and clinical […] May 4, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 2 May 2017 Video Interview: Meet the Inventor of the Surgical Super-glue At our second meetup in Basel last week, Philip had the chance to talk to Maria Pereira, one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and the scientific inventor of the technology behind Gecko Biomedical. Apart from telling us about Gecko’s progress and future plans, Maria talked about her time in Boston and why she ended up […] May 2, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 1 May 2017 This Founder is using Synbio to Revolutionize Genetic Medicine Oxford Genetics founder and CEO Ryan Cawood told me about his company’s improvements to DNA design for better biologicals. Last month at Synbiobeta, I caught up with Ryan Cawood, who created one of the most successful synthetic biology companies around, Oxford Genetics. “Our direction actually took off from this conference,” he told me. “We saw […] May 1, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 26 Apr 2017 Infographic: Who’s who in the mRNA Therapeutics Field in Europe? The young field of mRNA therapeutics is booming and generating huge expectations. Which are the main players in Europe turning them into a reality? Therapies based on mRNA promise better vaccines and therapeutics by instructing the body to produce its own just by reading the instructions written in the RNA sequence. Thought for a long time to […] April 26, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 24 Apr 2017 ‘Meat’ the Founder behind the Lab-Grown Burger Investors are Queuing for Mark Post is a researcher at the University of Maastricht and co-founder and CSO of Mosa Meat, the Dutch company that will bring the first lab-grown beef burger to the market. I asked him about his motivations and plans to make cultured meat a reality in the coming decade. Cultured meat is an animal-free, lab-grown […] April 24, 2017 - 7 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 20 Apr 2017 Newron’s Journey to Launch the First Parkinson’s Drug in 11 Years Philip talked to Stefan Weber, CEO of Newron Pharmaceuticals, in our first meetup in Munich last week. His company has launched a new drug that could offer many more benefits than current medications to patients with Parkinson’s. Stefan discussed how failure can be an important part of success and what being European means in biotech. […] April 20, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 20 Apr 2017 Which EU Immuno-Oncology Company are you Cheering for? Immuno-oncology represents a huge breakthrough towards the search for a cancer cure. Biotechs all around Europe are developing innovative ways of helping our own immune system fight tumors, which one do you think is doing it best? The field of immuno-oncology is overcrowded, and there’s plenty of companies pushing to make their cutting-edge technology a […] April 20, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 17 Apr 2017 Meet One of the Most Successful German Biotech Leaders Ever Patrick Baeuerle is the German biotech leader I wanted to interview the most (besides Simon Moroney from MorphoSys, who came to our Meetup in Munich last week). Patrick has explored and succeeded in just about every area of life sciences, be it as a highly cited academic researcher, a professor at Freiburg University, head of drug […] April 17, 2017 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 12 Apr 2017 Video Interview: How Morphosys Grew Into a Billion-Euro Biotech At our first, but for sure not last meetup in Munich last Monday, Philip had the pleasure to have a chat with Simon Moroney, CEO and co-founder of the biggest biotech in Germany, Morphosys. Their topics ranged from Morphosys’ current pipeline and previous failures to the immuno-oncology hype and company culture. Morphosys started out with its […] April 12, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 10 Apr 2017 “Alzheimer’s is the Last Unclaimed Therapeutic Space,” says TauRx exec The Alzheimer’s field has been hit with a number of failures. I spoke to the COO/CBO of TauRx, whose alternative approach may yet succeed. Pharma is throwing all it can at the problem of Alzheimer’s Disease without any success to show for its efforts. Now the sixth leading cause of death across all age groups, […] April 10, 2017 - 7 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 3 Apr 2017 Meet the Co-Founder who says DNA is the Next Silicon DNA Script opens the door to a whole new age of manufacturing synthetic DNA. Thomas Ybert, was only 30 when he co-founded the company – here’s his story! Based in Paris, DNA Script produces synthetic DNA using a proprietary template-free enzymatic technology. Most of the manufactured DNA is currently synthesized by chemical means, but this startup […] April 3, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 27 Mar 2017 Meet one of the Most Successful Biotech Entrepreneurs in the UK Jonathan Milner is a rockstar biotech entrepreneur and founder of Abcam. He is still on the board of his baby Abcam, while investing in many young startups, nurturing the British biotech ecosystem and taking part in philanthropy. Here’s my chat with him on all these topics. “I was amazed by how you could order books […] March 27, 2017 - 7 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email