News and Trends 15 Sep 2017 New British Biotech Enters the Clinic with Opioid Alternative for Chronic Pain Levicept’s Phase I study will test their new pain relief candidate’s safety and tolerability in healthy individuals and osteoarthritis patients. Levicept, based in Sandwich, UK, focuses on the development of its pain relief candidate, LEVI-04, a p75 neurotrophin receptor fusion protein (p75NTR-Fc). The Phase I study is the company’s maiden voyage into the clinic, and it will test the […] September 15, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 15 Sep 2017 Swiss-US Partners Reveal New Candidate for Autoimmune Disease Numab and Intarcia have a first candidate to combine a tri-specific antibody fragment with a mini-osmotic pump delivery system to fight autoimmune disease. Numab and Intarcia partnered in 2015 to develop a new form of treatment for diabetes, obesity and autoimmune diseases. After initial research, the team has now selected its first candidate for clinical […] September 15, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 15 Sep 2017 Bayer Launches Plant Microbiome Biotech with a Huge €84M Series A Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks are launching a new company that will develop new technologies for sustainable agriculture by engineering the plant microbiome. With the microbiome already gaining traction in the therapeutics field, Bayer has decided to take it to agriculture. In partnership with US synthetic biology upstart Ginkgo Bioworks, the German giant is creating a new […] September 15, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 14 Sep 2017 New Dutch Spin Out will Treat Stroke with RNA Therapy ProQR has spun out Amylon Therapeutics, a company that will treat central nervous system disorders with a lead candidate based on RNA technology. Amylon Therapeutics, a brand new spin-out from RNA company ProQR, has announced its first seed investment round. The funds, of an undisclosed amount, will help the new company kick off the development of its drug candidates. Based in Leiden, Amylon […] September 14, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 14 Sep 2017 Could Using Bacteria’s Own Killing Capacity be a Knockout Blow in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance? Scientists in the UK and US have identified how in-fighting between bacteria could provide a new treatment for hospital-acquired infections. Clostridium difficile is a common cause of hospital-acquired infections, which kill almost 4,000 people in Europe each year. Scientists at the University of Sheffield, the University of Glasgow, and California-based biotech AvidBiotics Corp have discovered that C. difficile uses nanomolecular […] September 14, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Interview 14 Sep 2017 Inside the Lab Building a Stem Cell Gun to Heal Skin Thomas Bold, CEO of RenovaCare, shares the story of how his team developed a futuristic stem cell gun to heal burns and wounds. Inside the building that used to be home to Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, whose abandoned runways are regularly visited by picnickers and skaters, an American and a German company are collaborating on the […] September 14, 2017 - 6 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Sep 2017 A Swedish-Spanish Team Takes on a New Immuno-Oncology Target Alligator Bioscience will collaborate with the University of Navarra, Spain, to study the potential of CD137 as a target for new cancer immunotherapies. Alligator Bioscience, based in Lund, Sweden, has teamed up with Prof. Ignacio Melero at the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) at the University of Navarra to study the biological effects of activating […] September 13, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Sep 2017 Italian Biotech Closes €7M Series B for Stem Cells to Treat Cancer Genenta Science has raised $8M (€7M) in the Series B fundraising round to continue investigating its use of hematopoietic stem cells to treat cancer. Based in Milan, Genenta can add €7M to the €10M secured in Series A of fundraising. Italian, British and Swiss private investors led the investment, and it will allow the biotech to start a second […] September 13, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Sep 2017 Epigenetics Drug Proves Effective in Phase I for Lethal Cancer 4SC’s partner Yakult Honsha has presented positive results at ESMO 2017 for the epigenetics drug resminostat in a Phase I trial run in Japan. The histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor resminostat has shown to induce tumor shrinkage or disease stabilization in all patients with biliary tract cancer in a Phase I trial. The goal was to determine […] September 13, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Sep 2017 Series D Boost will Bring Artificial Intelligence to Diagnostics Worldwide Sophia Genetics has raised $30M (€25M) in Series D that will be directed to growing and improving its artificial intelligence platform for genetic diagnostics. The Swiss company Sophia Genetics has announced today a new round of funding, led by Balderton Capital, and joined by 360º Capital Partners and existing investors Invoke Capital and Alychlo. The […] September 13, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Sep 2017 What You Need to Know About the EU’s New Data Protection Law The EU’s new data protection law is going to have a great impact on companies worldwide, including those involved in clinical trials. Here’s what you have to know and how to act! In May 2018, the European Union’s new data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is set to replace the current Data […] September 13, 2017 - 13 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Infographics 13 Sep 2017 The 10 Most Innovative HIV Treatments to Defeat AIDS This infographic gathers 10 of the best HIV treatments in Europe’s pipeline that will help doctors worldwide fight against AIDS better than ever before. With an estimated 36.7 million people living with HIV worldwide, the search for an effective treatment that can overcome the fast evolution of the virus is rapidly gaining traction. In Europe, […] September 13, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email