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News and Trends 17 May 2016

‘Ideal’ German Antibodies have promising data for Gastro Cancer

Ganymed is presenting promising results of its phase II trial in gastroesophageal cancer at the ASCO Annual meeting 2016 in Chicago, one of the leading Oncology conferences worldwide. Based in Mainz (Germany), Ganymed is a Biopharma developing immunotherapies to tackle cancer, having joined forces with BioNTech (Germany’s larget private Biotech) 2 years ago to create […]

May 17, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 17 May 2016

Rare Disease Biopharma can now sell Hemophilia treatment across whole of EU

Sobi has received market approval by the European Comission for Alprolix, a long-duration protein therapy that protects hemophilia B patients from uncontrolled bleeding. With a focus on rare diseases, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi) has clinical programmes in diseases like alkaptonuria, tyrosinaemia and hemophilia – a disease with which Sobi is particularly invested. Its candidate for hemophilia […]

May 17, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 17 May 2016

New Italian Drug is FDA approved for trials in Rare Neurological Disease

Newron sees its Investigational New Drug application approved by the FDA. It can now begin clinical trials for Rett Syndrome patients – a rare neurological disorder. Based near Milan (Italy), Newron is a Biopharma developing therapies for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). Last year it raised over €23M to advance its pipeline, which features candidates […]

May 17, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 16 May 2016

Interviewing the Founder of the World #1 Microbiome Investment fund

Isabelle De Cremoux is the CEO and President of French VC fund Seventure Partners, famous for having opened Health for Life Capital, a €160M fund dedicated to the Microbiome. Having previously worked in the business development team of Pfizer as well as Fournier/Abbott, Isabelle created the lifesciences department when joining Seventure, which she manages as CEO […]

May 16, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 14 May 2016

What Happened this Week? Lupus fight, CRO, Plant charger

1. Today is World Lupus Day! Meet the people who are fighting this Rare disease 2. This UK Company told us how they Optimise Drug Development and turn a Profit 3. Meeting the startup which uses Plants to charge your Smartphone 4. This Dutch Gene Therapy is on the shelf and seems to Work. But nobody is […]

May 14, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 13 May 2016

First and only antibody for Multiple Myeloma approved in EU

Bristol-Myers Squibb and AbbVie have announced that their co-development project for an antibody therapy against Multiple Myeloma has been approved in the EU after a successful Phase III trial. Empliciti (elotuzumab) has been developed for the treatment of multiple myeloma as combination therapy in patients who have received at least one prior therapy, now making it […]

May 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 13 May 2016

Biotech of the Week: Avexxin, reducing inflammatory diseases from far up in Norway

We’re not going particularly far this week and we aren’t even leaving Scandinavia! From Stockholm, we are crossing the border to Norway and go up North. Sadly it’s not the see the Northern Lights but to visit Trondheim, where Avexxin, our Biotech of the Week is located. City: Trondheim (Norway) Founded: 2005 Employees: 8 (as of […]

May 13, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 12 May 2016

German Biotech achieves next step for Gene Therapy production of Viral Vectors

Cologne based Cevec specialises in producing tailor-made recombinant glycoproteins and gene therapy vectors. Now it has announced a breakthrough in their adenoviral vectors used in Gene Therapy. The increasing number of gene therapy-based discovery programs in the biotech and pharma industry is driving a greater need for the scalable production of gene therapy vectors. Vectors are needed […]

May 12, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 12 May 2016

Sperm Cells Enlisted as Nanobot Delivery Guys

Reserchears at IFW Dresden were trying to create a nanorobot for drug delivery and even gene manipulation. They ended up using one of the motors created by nature – the flagella of sperm cells. Drug delivery is a key part in the development of new drugs, and an active field of research with academy-industry partnerships. Examples of ideas […]

May 12, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 12 May 2016

Oxford Spin-Out Raises Record €21M to Re-Program Stem Cells

OxStem’s strategy for stem cells therapy inside the body could have a big impact in regenerative medicine – and it has raised €21.4M, a record for a UK spin-out. A spin-out of Oxford University, OxStem is developing cell programming therapies that could treat a range of usually age-related conditions – dementia, heart failure, macular degeneration, […]

May 12, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 11 May 2016

Artificial enzymes to be developed in Munich with new Synbio Programme

Biological systems that could produce insulin out of greenhouse gas – this is one of the goals of the new €11.5M Synthetic Biology programme, at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has many research highlights, including CAR-T research with impressive results. It has recently created the TUM School of Bioengineering […]

May 11, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 11 May 2016

EuropaBio: “We as an industry should be proud of what we do”

We just partnered with the European Biotech Week, which is a good reason to talk to its secretary general, Nathalie Moll. I asked her more about the event, the reasons for organising it and her vision for the future of Biotech in Europe. The event is a week of Biotech related seminars and activities from September 26th to October 2nd organised by […]

May 11, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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