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News and Trends 16 Jun 2016

This German Diagnostic company was sold for €50M to the World leading Molecular Diagnostic company

Sividon was a spin-off from Siemens, founded in July 2011 – and it was just sold to the American Myriad Genetics ($2.2Bn market cap) for €50M, even though the company raised only €5M over its lifetime. A clear success story that I discussed with Karlheinz Schmelig, partner of Sividon’s Lead investor Creathor Venture. Sividon worked in […]

June 16, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 15 Jun 2016

Eva Diagnostics: “We identified the pain points of the Blood testing market” #LBRefresh

Eva Diagnostics was one of the contestants at our Startup Battle during Labiotech Refresh. Take a second look with us at the pitch of Eva’s exciting diagnostic Tech… We had Sabine Dziemian, the head of data analysis at Eva Diagnostics, explain how this spin-off out of Imperial College London is joining the race for MedTech diagnostics. […]

June 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 15 Jun 2016

Boosting a Single Protein makes for a 50% more Productive Rice

Researchers from the John Innes Centre and Nanjing Agricultural University have identified a protein that can help plants regulate their cell pH – a seemingly small modification that can boost rice crop yields by 50%. Rice is one of the major crops in the world, along with corn and wheat (also under the microscope of science […]

June 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 15 Jun 2016

Dutch Fund raises €250M to invest in Late Stage Biotechs

Gilde Healthcare has raised €250M for its 4th fund in an oversubscribed round. The money will go to late-stage MedTech, digital health and therapeutics, which can join a portfolio with some of the European celebrity-Biotechs. Gilde Healthcare is based in Utrecht (Netherlands) and Cambridge (Massachussets), investing in healthcare companies on both sides of the Atlantic. This VC […]

June 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

Could this be the ‘Beginning of the end’ for Diabetes? Let’s Review.

Given the rates of diabetes reaching ‘epidemic proportions’, we figured it was time to have a better overview of biotech’s progress in the field. With some serious advances having been made in the treatment of the disease, we have to ask – how much further can biotech go in the treatment of diabetes? It is important […]

June 14, 2016 - 9 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

British Biotech startup shows 50% improvement in Atopic Dermatitis

Ziarco has received positive results from a Phase II trial with its leading candidate, which has shown to improve symptoms of atopic dermatitis by 50%, giving it the potential to fill the current need for a safe oral treatment for this inflammatory skin disease. Ziarco is a private biotech with a clinical-stage pipeline for inflammatory skin […]

June 14, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

Unlock the power of Text-mining tools

It has become clear that text mining is a great tool for rapid analysis of large volumes of biomedical literature. It delivers valuable information that helps to improve the accuracy and speed of the R&D process, as well as creating the opportunity to make more informed business decisions. As we’ve seen in our previous articles, text […]

June 14, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

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News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

New Biomarkers could make Personalized Medicine for Depression

Researchers from King’s College London have succeeded in developing a blood test that can help choose the best treatment for depression patients – a big improvement over the current trial-and-error approach. Depression doesn’t seem to be a particularly popular indication for biotechs, unlike other nervous systems diseases that reached significant milestones in the last year. Moreover, one […]

June 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

“A new generation of Bio-entrepreneurs is rising right now” – SynBio in Europe

Our SynBio panel had a really popular turn-out at Labiotech Refresh. Chaired by Cathal Garvey, the Program Director at IndieBio EU, we had some very diverse leaders in the field present, from Biohackers to the CEO of Biofuel giant, Deinove. Asides Cathal, on the panel we had Axel Polack, a General Partner at the Joint Polish […]

June 13, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

Italy cures Diabetes with new Engineered Mini-organs

Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda has succeeded in treating a patient with type 1 diabetes, using a new tissue engineering techniques for more effective islet transplants – something that could bring this diabetes cure to more patients. Biotech is tackling diabetes from several fronts – from mitigation of symptoms, for example, Avita’s skin spray, to medtech inventions […]

June 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

Immunocore has published key results for its new preclinical candidate for HIV, ImmTAV. This TCR-based immunotherapy has succeeded in targeting T-cells where HIV infection often ‘hides’ from drugs. Just after presenting promising results from its leading candidate at ASCO 2016 (read our coverage here), Immunocore is making headlines in another area – infectious disease. The […]

June 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 10 Jun 2016

Gates Foundation is funding EU Biotech to make Vaccines more affordable

Batavia Biosciences has won a €3.3M grant from the Gates Foundation, to fund new research in making cell culture cheaper – and drive down the price of some key vaccines. Within its goal of pushing science forward and bringing to developing countries, the Gates Foundation has outlined vaccine delivery as a key part of its strategy. […]

June 10, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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This German Diagnostic company was sold for €50M to the World leading Molecular Diagnostic company

Eva Diagnostics: “We identified the pain points of the Blood testing market” #LBRefresh

Boosting a Single Protein makes for a 50% more Productive Rice

Dutch Fund raises €250M to invest in Late Stage Biotechs

Could this be the ‘Beginning of the end’ for Diabetes? Let’s Review.

British Biotech startup shows 50% improvement in Atopic Dermatitis

Unlock the power of Text-mining tools

New Biomarkers could make Personalized Medicine for Depression

“A new generation of Bio-entrepreneurs is rising right now” – SynBio in Europe

Italy cures Diabetes with new Engineered Mini-organs

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

Gates Foundation is funding EU Biotech to make Vaccines more affordable

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