More News! 23 Aug 2017 Dutch Biotech could treat Dyslipidemia with Belgian Nanobody Argenx’ partner Staten Biotechnology has published results that present a drug licensed from the Belgian biotech as a promising approach to control blood lipid levels. Staten Biotechnology is a young biotech in Breda, the Netherlands, focusing on treating dyslipidemia and reduce cardiovascular mortality and backed by BioGeneration Ventures and Forbion Capital Partners as investors. Back […] August 23, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 23 Aug 2017 Update: British Biotech’s Gene Therapy for Rare ‘Bubble Baby’ Disease set on UK Fast-Track UPDATE (23/08/2017): The UK has also prioritized OTL-101 for review as a ‘Promising Innovative Medicine.’ This is the first step on the path to the Early Access to Medicine Scheme to bring it to market faster. Original Publication 24/07/2017 Orchard Therapeutics has received rare pediatric disease designation for OTL-101, a gene therapy for the treatment of […] August 23, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 22 Aug 2017 Eli Lilly Partners with German Biotech Against Autoimmune Disease Topas Therapeutics has signed a multi-year agreement with Eli Lilly to develop drug candidates for antigen-specific immunotherapy. The young Topas Therapeutics, a spin off from Evotec launched just last year, has managed to sign a research collaboration deal with big pharma Eli Lilly. The partners will work together on selecting external antigens that induce inflammation and autoimmune disease […] August 22, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 21 Aug 2017 First-in-Human Trial will test a New Cancer Therapy from Switzerland Cellestia Biotech will start human trials with CB-103, an anticancer drug targeting the Notch signaling pathway, known for its ubiquity in cancer. Cellestia Biotech, based in Basel, has announced it received full approval to start clinical trials in Spain with CB-103, a new class of drug that targets an ubiquitous cancer mechanism. The drug is a […] August 21, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 21 Aug 2017 German Biotech Starts Trials with a Personalized Cell Therapy for Multiple Cancers Immatics will start a first clinical trial to test IMA101, a personalized cell therapy with the potential to treat multiple types of solid tumors. Based in Tübingen, Germany, Immatics has announced today the start of its first clinical trial testing its cell therapy technology aimed at providing personalized treatments for multiple types of solid tumors. The […] August 21, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 21 Aug 2017 AstraZeneca Teams Up with German Biotech to Develop mRNA Therapy AstraZeneca and its R&D arm MedImmune have partnered with Munich-based Ethris to use its mRNA technology to develop treatments for respiratory disease. Ethris, located in the Munich biotech hub of Martinsried, has attracted the attention of AstraZeneca with its mRNA platform despite still being in an early development stage. The big pharma will pay Ethris €25M […] August 21, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 18 Aug 2017 Novo Nordisk’s New Type 2 Diabetes Drug Outperforms Eli Lilly’s Novo Nordisk has reported Phase III data that reveal its candidate semaglutide improved glucose control and weight loss in type 2 diabetes when compared with Eli Lilly’s dulaglutide. The results of the SUSTAIN 7 trial comparing the efficacy of Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide with Eli Lilly’s Trulicity (dulaglutide), already in the market, have revealed that Novo’s […] August 18, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 18 Aug 2017 Swedish Scientists Launch Online Pathology Atlas of All Known Cancer Genes A team of Swedish researchers has published today an interactive map for the visualization of the effects of individual cancer genes that supports personalized medicine. The new Pathology Atlas is an open access online resource containing genomic data from over 8,000 patients across 17 major cancer types. By typing in the name of any gene […] August 18, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 16 Aug 2017 Biosimilars Struggle to Substitute Brand-Name Drugs Despite bringing a significant price reduction, biosimilars might lag in taking over the market of the drugs they copy because of exclusivity policies set up by the owners of brand-name drugs. A report in Bloomberg Markets yesterday highlights the case of Inflectra, a biosimilar from Pfizer that imitates Johnson & Johnson’s rheumatoid arthritis blockbuster Remicade (infliximab). Despite bringing a price reduction […] August 16, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 16 Aug 2017 And the Winner for the BioPharm America 2017 FREE Ticket Giveaway is… Three weeks ago, on July 26th, we published the free ticket giveaway for the BioPharm America conference in Boston, Massachusetts, which is taking place from September 26th – 27th, 2017! Today, our randomizer selected Susanna Bächle from Addgene as the WINNER! Congratulations! Susanna was selected randomly from a long list of entries, so thank you to […] August 16, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Aug 2017 UK Pharma Pays Over €200M for a German Drug Against Biliary Cancer Mundipharma has acquired the rights to CAP7.1, a drug that could bring the first alternative to surgery and chemo for patients with biliary tract cancer. Cambridge-based Mundipharma has paid $250M (€212M) to the German biotech CellAct in exchange for the worldwide development, commercialization and manufacturing rights to CAP7.1. The candidate is a prodrug that, when metabolized, […] August 14, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 11 Aug 2017 Cancer Research UK Teams Up with London Startup in Immuno-oncology Biotecnol, based in London, has found a partner in CRUK to bring its immune-stimulating antibody into the clinic to tackle solid tumors. There will (probably) be a new immuno-oncology drug on the block soon: Cancer Research UK has gone in on London startup Biotecnol‘s antibody in a deal to bring it to an open-label Phase […] August 11, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Evelyn Warner Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email