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News and Trends 3 Feb 2016

When the Llama met the Lion: Antibodies Unlock Milestone Payment for Skin Disease

ArGEN-X in Ghent (Belgium) combines the diversity of the llama immune system with a clinical antibody pipeline which Leo Pharma (Denmark), is developing to treat inflammatory skin conditions. These llama mAb platforms allow arGEN-X to unlock novel and complex targets and develop antibody-based drugs designed for longer duration of effect and greater efficacy. This is a similar approach to which Ablynx […]

February 3, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 3 Feb 2016

France’s 3rd Largest Pharma Company Finally Opens up to Biotech Innovation

Open Innovation is now everywhere, even Pharma. So, just today in France, the opening of the Pierre Fabre Fund for Innovation for biotech startups has been announced. Most Big Pharma have their own program. Boehringer-Ingelheim for example is partnering with BioMedX to run a new program with researchers from Heidelberg. Now the 3rd largest Pharma company in France, […]

February 3, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 3 Feb 2016

Meet the CEO of Europe’s Leading Microbiome Biotech

We met Pierre Belichard, the CEO of Enterome, last week to discuss the increasingly famous trend in the Human Microbiome and how this is impacting therapeutics in Crohn’s disease, the understanding of Medical Microbiomics and investment in this field of Biotech. Enterome, established in 2012, is a French biotech that is hot at the moment, […]

February 3, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 2 Feb 2016

From Belgium: 3D-Bioprinted ‘Waffle’ to Fix Broken Bones

Bone Therapeutics (Belgium) is a cell therapy biotech working on bone fracture repair which has now extended its collaboration with Kasios (France), to develop next-generation bone disease therapy with 3D-Bioprinting technology. The current standard-of-care in the Bones field involves major surgeries and (consequently) long recovery time. Bone Therapeutics is, therefore, developing a range of regenerative products containing osteoblasts (bone-forming cells), which […]

February 2, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 2 Feb 2016

New €210M Life Sciences Fund is Launched in UK

Medicxi Ventures, Formerly Index Ventures Life Sciences, Launches as an Independent Venture Capital Firm and Announces Closing of a €210M Fund including GSK and Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Medicxi Ventures is based in London, Geneva and Jersey and has been investing in the Life Sciences field for over 20 years. It comprises all of the legacy portfolio […]

February 2, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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In Depth 2 Feb 2016

The Unlimited Biotech Potential of Algae

Is the Future of Biotech…Green? The Algae Industry ranges from Biofuels to Nutrition to Fashion and Microalgae hold lots of potential for the industry to expand. But why? And do Venture Capitalists agree? Microalgae have already been established as incredibly valuable to the biotech industry, in part due to their ancient genetic diversity and resilience, providing […]

February 2, 2016 - 9 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

Huge Milestone: UK Approves CRISPR Editing on Human Embryos

This could be a HUGE game-changer for Europe’s research on stem cells, and more broadly Gene Editing…. Research on human embryos is a very touchy subject. And when you want to allow the use of the most powerful gene-editing tool on them, it’s becomes even touchier. Research on human embryos has been forbidden almost everywhere (with exception to China […]

February 1, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

Cancer Research UK has teamed up with MSD (Merck) and the Wellcome Trust to co-develop some Inhibitors for both Cancerous and Non-cancerous blood disorders from the Australian Academia-Biotech Network. The Australian Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) in Melbourne has a range of investigational inhibitors for blood disorders – including Leukemia. CTx is collaborative partnership […]

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

World CAR-T Leader Starts New Program with a UK Biotech

Pretty impressive CAR-T news coming from across the Channel… Oxford BioMedica just launched a second collaboration with Novartis, which has shown tremendous Phase II results – and the most advanced in CAR-T therapy in development so far (read our review on how CAR-T works and who else is working the field). This collaboration covers the […]

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Jan 2016

What happened this week? 5 Fantastic Biotech Years, Galapagos, Biotech on French TV

Monday: Nature’s Machines: Biohacking Evolution to Destroy Pollutants Tuesday: 2011-2015: What a Fantastic 5 Years for European Biotech Wednesday: French Investor Leads €60M Financial Round for the Future of DNA Synthesis Thursday: This Young CEO is Making Biotech Popular in France Friday: Pei-Ying Lin’s BioArt: Stunning Smallpox, Nutritious NanoFood and Microbial Fractals Bonus: 10 Interesting European […]

January 30, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 29 Jan 2016

Pei-Ying Lin’s BioArt: Stunning Smallpox, Nutritious NanoFood and Microbial Fractals

Pei-Ying Lin founded the Taiwanese BioArt community with her Science-Humanities and programming background to tackle complex BioArt statements all across the EU. Lin is a Scientist-turned-artist, with her fascination in BioArt having stemmed from a Life Sciences degree from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and a Masters at the Royal College of Art in London. She’s also […]

January 29, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Jan 2016

Biotech of the week: Vivia Biotech, the Spanish Pioneer in Personalised Medicine

This week we leave the cold winds of Sweden and head south, to warmer weather and say ¡Hola! to Spain and the location for this week, Madrid. This vibrant city is famous for one of the best football teams in the world, the oldest restaurant in the world (opened in 1725!) and is home to the […]

January 29, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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When the Llama met the Lion: Antibodies Unlock Milestone Payment for Skin Disease

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New €210M Life Sciences Fund is Launched in UK

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Huge Milestone: UK Approves CRISPR Editing on Human Embryos

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

World CAR-T Leader Starts New Program with a UK Biotech

What happened this week? 5 Fantastic Biotech Years, Galapagos, Biotech on French TV

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