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News and Trends 11 Jan 2022

Sanofi Joins AI Gold Rush in €4.6B Drug Discovery Pact with Exscientia

As big pharma companies flock to drug discovery collaborations with artificial intelligence (AI) firms, the French giant Sanofi has sealed a €4.6B deal with the UK AI player Exscientia to develop oncology and immunology treatments. According to the deal’s terms, the partners will develop up to 15 small molecule drugs to treat cancer and immunological […]

January 11, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 10 Jan 2022

Leveraging Physics and Quantum Computing to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Novel computational techniques are revolutionizing the way we discover new drugs. Robert Marino, CEO and co-founder of Qubit Pharmaceuticals, discusses the potential of physics to accelerate drug discovery. Paris-based Qubit Pharmaceuticals was established in 2020 to commercialize the work of leading researchers in the computational chemistry space. This field uses computer modeling to predict how […]

January 10, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 7 Jan 2022

French Project to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance with Biotech and Economics

A team of French organizations led by the biotech firm Antabio has launched a €17M project to deploy therapeutic, diagnostic, and economic innovations in the battle against antibiotic resistance. The project, dubbed ARPEGE, involves four partners covering a variety of disciplines: the antibiotics developer Antabio; the diagnostics heavyweight bioMérieux; the university hospital group Hospices Civils […]

January 7, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 5 Jan 2022

The Top European Biotech Investments in December

December 2021 ended with a bang for biotech funding in Europe and Israel, with cultured meat and cell therapy startups attracting the biggest investment rounds. Biotech companies in Europe and Israel capped off 2021 with a very strong month of fundraising. Collectively, private companies and those launching initial public offerings (IPOs) banked almost €1.6B in […]

January 5, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Opinion 3 Jan 2022

Distributed Manufacturing of Cell Therapies Poses a Threat to Big Pharma

As medical institutions develop the infrastructure for decentralized manufacturing of cell therapies, they are positioned to outperform big pharma’s limited success with a centralized approach to manufacturing. A revolution is coming in the discovery, development and delivery of living medicines. This revolution is being led by well-funded, elite academic medical centers, such as the University […]

January 3, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 23 Dec 2021

Future Meat Lands €308M in Biggest-Ever Cultured Meat Investment

The Israeli firm Future Meat Technologies has raised a neat €308M ($347M) in the biggest financing round in the field of cultured meat to date. The company claims rapid progress in addressing scaling bottlenecks that slow the sector’s growth. A range of contributors pitched into the mammoth funding round including an undisclosed tech investor, ADM […]

December 23, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 22 Dec 2021

The Biggest European Biotech News of 2021

In spite of the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the European biotech industry has emerged stronger than ever this year. These were the key moments for the sector in 2021. The year 2021 has seen skyrocketing fortunes for many European biotech players. Investment firms, for instance, raised far more funding than in 2020, which […]

December 22, 2021 - 10 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 21 Dec 2021

Argenx’s Potential Blockbuster Gets FDA Nod for Autoimmune Disease

US regulators have approved the first-in-class drug efgartigimod for the treatment of the rare muscle disease generalized myasthenia gravis, opening up its developer argenx to billion-dollar revenues. Efgartigimod, to be marketed as Vyvgart, is an antibody fragment drug for use in adults with generalized myasthenia gravis. The FDA’s decision represents the first successful drug approval […]

December 21, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

Best in Biotech 20 Dec 2021

The Billion-Euro European Biotech Companies in 2022

Here’s a list of the public European biotech companies that are worth more than a billion euros in 2022. European biotech is growing steadily and this year we welcome a few new names to the list of billion-euro biotechs. However, we also had to say goodbye to some of them, including Cellectis, Autolus, and Orchard […]

December 20, 2021 - 12 minutesmins - By Larissa Warneck-Silvestrin

News and Trends 17 Dec 2021

UK Startup Lands €5M Seed Round to Produce Gene-Edited Crops with AI

Phytoform, a London- and Boston-based startup, has received a €5M ($5.7M) investment to develop gene-edited crops with the help of artificial intelligence tools. The firm expects to bring its first product, a weather-resistant tomato, to market in early 2022. The seed financing will fuel the development of Phytoform’s precision crop breeding platform, which specializes in […]

December 17, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Dan Samorodnitsky

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News and Trends 14 Dec 2021

ATP Blazes US Venture Capital Trail into European Biotech Startups

The US venture capital firm Apple Tree Partners (ATP) is making its first transatlantic foray by launching the UK immuno-oncology company Adrendra Therapeutics. This happens as US investors increasingly search for value-for-money opportunities in early-stage European biotech startups. Last week, the life science-focused investor ATP contributed €47M (£40M) to the Series A launch of immunotherapy […]

December 14, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

News and Trends 10 Dec 2021

European Biotech Investors Cap Off Record Year in Fundraising

The year 2021 is closing with a biotech investment rush as Eir Ventures, Apollo Health Ventures, and Merck’s venture capital arm M Ventures raise impressive funds to speed up life sciences innovation. This year is set to break records in terms of the money flowing into institutional life science investors. With 2021 not even finished, […]

December 10, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Sanofi Joins AI Gold Rush in €4.6B Drug Discovery Pact with Exscientia

Leveraging Physics and Quantum Computing to Accelerate Drug Discovery

French Project to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance with Biotech and Economics

The Top European Biotech Investments in December

Distributed Manufacturing of Cell Therapies Poses a Threat to Big Pharma

Future Meat Lands €308M in Biggest-Ever Cultured Meat Investment

The Biggest European Biotech News of 2021

Argenx’s Potential Blockbuster Gets FDA Nod for Autoimmune Disease

The Billion-Euro European Biotech Companies in 2022

UK Startup Lands €5M Seed Round to Produce Gene-Edited Crops with AI

ATP Blazes US Venture Capital Trail into European Biotech Startups

European Biotech Investors Cap Off Record Year in Fundraising

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