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News and Trends 12 Jan 2016

Microbiomics and Nestlé: €1.7Bn for New TransAtlantic Drug Development Program

Microbiomics is a hot area for biotech. Now US Seres Therapeutics and Nestlé Health Sciences have signed a massive drug development deal for bowel diseases and C.difficile infections. By correcting the fundamental microbiome dysbiosis that is the root cause of many diseases, Seres Theraputics in Cambridge (US) is creating a profoundly new and important way […]

January 12, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 12 Jan 2016

10 Hot European Biotechs to watch in 2016

Looking forward to 2016, I wondered which Biotechs I would watch closely. Here’s my list (which is not meant to be extensive and is in no particular order): 1. Immunocore – Oxford, UK Immunocore is developing TCR-based immuno-oncology treatments and has raised nearly €300M ($320M) in its last round of private fundraising – a pure anomaly […]

January 12, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

TROD’s MedTech for Prostate Cancer Kills Tumor Cells with Radio Waves

TROD Medical, the medical device company developing tools for focal ablation, today announced that it has received CE Mark Approval for its Encage device. Encage is a breakthrough in treatment for prostate cancer, one of the most common soft tissue cancers in the world with around 240,000 new cases every year in the US alone. […]

January 11, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

A French Biotech is Monopolising Immuno-Oncology with Big Euro Deals

Marseille’s Innate Pharma is building an Immuno-Oncology Monopoly, deal by deal. Selling to the French Pharma Giant, Sanofi, this 112 employee biotech has used their Sanofi-income to buy up Lyon-based Orega Biotech‘s checkpoint inhibitor program. Sanofi and Innate Pharma will work together on the generation and evaluation of up to two bispecific NK cell engagers, […]

January 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

How about the $100M Holy ‘GRAIL’ in Cancer Diagnostics? A Universal Test Start-up Faces German Competition

Illumina, the €22Bn Market cap NGS specialist, and Bill Gates pooled a $100M to fund the startup, ‘Grail’, which will be used to find a universal cancer detection test for Doctors. The startup will be based in San Francisco (US) with additional financial backing to include Bill Gates amongst others. The tests in question are […]

January 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

Transgene shares jump 50% in 2 days After Announcing Phase III Trial for Liver Cancer

This multinational Phase III Trial for an Oncolytic Immunotherapy for Advanced Liver Cancer could be what really defines French Transgene as the underdog which finally sprang to fame. Transgene, in Strasbourg, was founded in 1979, as France’s oldest Biotech (only 3 years after Genentech was born on the other side of the Atlantic). However, unlike Genentech, […]

January 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 9 Jan 2016

What happened this week? mRNA Review, Genes for Longevity, Audi loves Biofuels

Monday: Genomics Holy Grail: The Secret to Super-Longevity Lies in your Genes… Tuesday: Ultimate Review: How Could mRNA Overtake all other Biologicals in Medicine? Wednesday: Audi Strengthens Collaboration with French Biotech for the Future of Automotive Biofuels Thursday: Collaboration is Key to Microbiomics: New Deal with The Janssen Human Microbiome Institute Friday: BioArt in Berlin: […]

January 9, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 8 Jan 2016

Epigenetics Baby of Proteros is Signing Up with Top US Neurology Specialists

Founded in just 2013 by German Proteros and the US Atlas Ventures, Rodin Therapeutics is working epigenetics into discovery of novel therapies for Neurological diseases. Now they have hooked one of the largest players in the field, Biogen, into a €446M partnership. Since its inception within Atlas Venture’s company-creating seed program in March 2013, Rodin […]

January 8, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 8 Jan 2016

Biotech of the week: Glycotope, the Biggest Biotech in Berlin

After the Christmas and New Year, we continue our journey across Europe to have a glimpse of it’s vast number of Biotechs. This week, we leave Finland behind and head South-West across the Baltic Sea and back to our home town, Berlin, to visit our biotech of the week, Glycotope. City: Berlin, Germany Founded: 2001 Employees: 200 (as of […]

January 8, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 8 Jan 2016

BioArt in Berlin: Making Dystopia Beautiful with Prostheses and the Transhuman Life

I met the curators of a BioArt Gallery in Berlin very recently and they invited me to their latest of exhibition ‘Prostheses: Transhuman Life’ by the Artist Susanna Hertrich. The exhibition, hosted by Christian De Lutz and Regine Rapp (the wonderfully warm curators of Art Laboratory Berlin) presented ‘wearable tech’ devices made to trigger emotions, […]

January 8, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 7 Jan 2016

3 French Bioentrepreneurs are Awarded for Being Stubborn

Building a company is extremely difficult and obstination is sometimes needed to reach success. The organisation, France Biotech, has given a price to the founder of Innate-Pharma, OSE Pharma and Effimune for their respective success. Why? From left to right, Hervé Brailly, CEO & Founder of Innate-Pharma, Denis Lucquin, Managing Director of Sofinnova Partners, Maryvonne Hiance, […]

January 7, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 7 Jan 2016

Collaboration is Key to Microbiomics: New Deal with The Janssen Human Microbiome Institute

The Janssen Human Microbiome Institute, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and Johnson & Johnson Innovation AND Takeda are signing up to collaborate with the Paris biotech Enterome to help accelerate Microbiomics research into Crohn’s Disease. The collaboration is based on initial findings by the INRA showing that some commensal (symbiotic) bacteria elicit […]

January 7, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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