Podcast 1 Dec 2023
Ipsen drug gives hope for liver disease patients
On the podcast this week, we are looking at recent advances in treating certain liver diseases. Jennifer Schranz is senior vice president and global head of rare diseases in the…
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News and Trends 14 Jun 2018
Our Eyes Could Open A Window to Diagnosing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease
Spanish researchers have developed a way to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases by analyzing eye movements. The Madrid-based research team and its spin-off company Aura Innovative Robotics have developed a diagnostic test…
News and Trends 15 Sep 2022
New company formed to boost life sciences in Singapore
…and more accurate outcomes in molecular diagnostics across a wide range of diseases including infectious diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. It aims to improve lives by providing clarity and accessibility…
News and Trends 4 Sep 2017
Record Momentum for European Biotech
…market in Europe Geneuro, for example, is a Swiss company that focuses on diseases of the nervous system and autoimmune diseases. In 2016, it raised €33m (~ $39m) after its…
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Gene therapy: Making Rare Disease Therapies Less Rare
…therapies for patients with rare diseases. More than 70% of rare diseases are known to be caused by a single mutation, which makes them good candidates for gene therapy. Several…
News and Trends 29 Aug 2022
Marketing authorization granted for treatment of serious retinal diseases
The European Commission has granted marketing authorization to Ranivisio, a treatment for several serious retinal diseases. Polpharma Biologics Group BV, Formycon AG and their Swiss joint venture, Bioeq AG, announced…
News and Trends 21 Oct 2016
New Partnership comes to the Rescue in Neurological Diseases
Developing effective treatments for neurological diseases is a big challenge in medicine. But here come UCB and Evotec with a new partnership that could help those suffering from epilepsy and…
Podcast 6 Oct 2023
Beyond Biotech podcast 66 – treating rare diseases with tRNA
…are harnessing the unique biology of tRNAs to engineer a single tRNA medicine that could treat thousands of rare diseases that share the same genetic mutation. This year, Alltrna presented…
News and Trends 16 Oct 2017
Interview: On the Future of iPS Cells and why Partnering is so Important in this Field
…own defective cells. The second is in the broader field of drug discovery. Here, iPS cells are being used to explore the underlying causes of human diseases at a molecular…
News and Trends 23 Nov 2022
Khondrion’s mitochondrial diseases treatment producing positive results
Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, Khondrion, discovering and developing therapies targeting primary mitochondrial diseases announced yesterday (November 22) its wholly-owned lead asset sonlicromanol for MELAS spectrum disorder has demonstrated positive treatment results….
News and Trends 6 Jul 2023
£100M LifeArc program aims to help people living with rare diseases
…rare disease, with approximately 3.5 million people in the U.K. affected. With more than 7,000 rare diseases identified, there is a need for new treatments and technologies to speed up…
News and Trends 4 Jul 2019
Dutch Antibodies for Autoimmune Diseases Boosted by €15M Series A
The Dutch biotech Citryll has raised €15M to develop antibodies that could fight autoimmune and inflammatory diseases more effectively than current treatments by inhibiting the innate immune system. The Series…
