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News and Trends 4 Aug 2015

A 100% Successful Ebola Vaccine Available in a Record Time

It's a really good news in the fight against Ebola. A vaccine has shown 100% success to prevent the disease during the outbreak in Guinea! The vaccine, which has been tested…

August 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 4 Aug 2015

How Gene Therapy could Cure Deafness

Cochlear implants achieved a great success in the past. However, there is hope that patients suffering from hearing loss won't need to be dependent on an electronic device soon. Several…

August 4, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 3 Aug 2015

Sanofi’s CEO, Olivier Brandicourt takes stock of its Biotech pipeline

Olivier Brandicourt, new CEO of Sanofi since last April, has been interviewed by EuroBusiness Media on the company's last results. The successor of Chris Viehbacher took the opportunity to show the…

August 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 3 Aug 2015

€41M for a Rising Star of Synthetic Biology: Ginkgo Bioworks

Once will not hurt, we'll speak a bit about an inspiring US-based company. A synthetic biology start-up from the worlds biggest biocluster is on its road to success. Shortly after…

August 3, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 2 Aug 2015

Green light for Ascendis’ Phase III in Growth Hormone Deficiency

It seems like the €48M Series D financing and the public introduction on the NASDAQ have paid off. Danish Ascendis Pharma announced positive top-line results from a Phase II study…

August 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 31 Jul 2015

MorphoSys Tackles the Technical Challenge of GPCR-targeted Drugs

Germany-based MorphoSys AG announced today that its partner Heptares Therapeutics, has initiated a therapeutic antibody program arising from the alliance the companies entered into in February 2013. Heptares will use MorphoSys’s…

July 31, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 30 Jul 2015

UCB’s Lupus treatment breaks down in Phase III

Big disappointment for Belgian UCB. After 9 years of research, its lead candidate in Immunology, designed to treat Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, failed in Phase III. The drug was acquired from…

July 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Jul 2015

NASDAQ-listed Sprint Bioscience sells early-stage Cancer Treatment to Bayer

Just as Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer HealthCare expands its cancer portfolio this week. The German company is inclined to shell out €190M for a drug that interacts with the peculiar metabolism…

July 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Jul 2015

Boehringer Ingelheim signs €661M deal for New Lung Cancer Treatment

Boehringer Ingelheim puts a new pillar in its oncology pipeline. The German giant acquired a Phase II compound for the treatment of lung cancer from the Korean pharma company Hamni.…

July 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Jul 2015

How to create a late-stage Biotech company in record time? Ask Novartis!

Mereo BioPharma. This name doesn't ring a bell? From now on, you should keep it in mind as it could rapidly become a rising star on the European Biotech scene.…

July 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 29 Jul 2015

Erytech follows the path of DBV and Cellectis into the US stock exchange

Erytech Pharma, developer of an innovative ‘tumor starvation’ treatment, today announced that it plans to conduct a registered initial public offering in the United States and thus, plays in the major league…

July 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 29 Jul 2015

Effective Antibody from a Patient recovering from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Two months after the outbreak of the coronavirus in South Korea, researchers are presenting first results of an effective treatment for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The Swiss biotech…

July 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 28 Jul 2015

We met Antoine Hubert, CEO of Ynsect and awarded Innovator Under 35 by the MIT

Each year since 1999, MIT Technology Review, the journal from the top-rank US University, discovers new generations of Innovators Under 35. The awarded young leaders are developing new technologies to…

July 28, 2015 - 7 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

News and Trends 28 Jul 2015

Struggling AstraZeneca sells Rare Disease drug to Genzyme-Sanofi for €300M

The Pharma giant AstraZeneca is still struggling even if in better shape. It just sold one of his rare disease drug already on the market to THE rare disease Biotech…

July 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 28 Jul 2015

Allergan Continues its Serial Acquisitions to be a Giant Drugmaker

With Allergan's absorption by Actavis last year, we ask ourselves, will the newly formed company enter the World's Top Ten drugmaker companies worldwide? And it has been very active indeed, expanding its…

July 28, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 27 Jul 2015

Ablynx and MSD upgrade their €1.7Bn deal to gigantic €5.7Bn

Using camel antibodies as drugs, sounds crazy? Belgian Ablynx is exactly doing that and has been very successful so far. It's now moving to the next step. It already signed a…

July 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 27 Jul 2015

Roche exits €940M discovery alliance with Molecular Partners

Roche left the collaboration with Molecular Partners, walking away from a potential cancer treatment using the DARPin technology. The collaboration, entered in 2013, was worth up to €940M. Molecular Partners…

July 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 27 Jul 2015

Hunt for Hypercholesterolemia Drug Approval: Sanofi vs Amgen vs Pfizer

Cardiovascular diseases kill around 2.6 million people each year and embody one of the biggest healthcare markets in the World. Not surprising to see Big Pharmas/Biotechs overactive in this field. What are their plans?…

July 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 26 Jul 2015

Roche’s Deal pushes Vifor’s split from Galenica

Switzerland’s biggest pharmacy network, Galenica, wants to split off the specialty pharma company Vifor Pharma. This could be done earlier than expected, thanks to a lucrative Roche deal. Galenica has…

July 26, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 24 Jul 2015

MGB puts a new spin on fighting multi-resistant bacteria

MGB Biopharma wants to tackle multi-resistant bacteria with their newly developed anti-infectives. Its lead candidate, MGB-BP-3 is now entering Phase I. Biotech companies use several approaches when it comes to…

July 24, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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