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News and Trends 18 Dec 2015

Finally! Galapagos New Mystery Partner to Replace AbbVie Revealed in €2Bn Deal

At last! We now know the fate of Galapagos Phase III Rheumatoid Arthritis drug after AbbVie‘s shocking abandonment. The Mystery replacement partner has now been revealed as Gilead! Galapagos will receive an upfront payment of €670M from California’s Gilead, consisting of a license fee of €277M and a €393M equity investment in Galapagos. In addition, […]

December 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 18 Dec 2015

Biotech of the week: Forendo Pharma, Finland hasn’t only got Santa Claus!

This week we leave Copenhagen but stay in Scandinavia, pass through Norway and arrive at this week’s destination, Finland. This country is famous being the home of Santa Claus (very fitting for this time of year), it’s large number of heavy metal bands and for inventing the sauna. It is also the residence of our […]

December 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 17 Dec 2015

The Assault on Solid Tumors: How ‘Blinding’ Cancer is an Attractive Therapeutic Approach

The Dutch Oncology VC Specialist Aglaia has invested €3.4M in the Swiss Start-Up Inthera Bioscience for their Small molecule platform against solid tumors. Aglaia is a venture capital firm based in Bilthoven (NL) which has 3 funds under their management for specialist investment into Oncology research. Last year they raised over €50M as part of […]

December 17, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 16 Dec 2015

Ovarian Cancer Kills 50,000 Every Year. Now a French Biotech has Bagged €15M to Fight it.

GamaMabs from France (Paris & Toulouse) has secured a €15M Series B Fundraising round for its Antibody targeting Gynecological cancers. GamaMabs Pharma is a French biotechnology company developing innovative monoclonal antibodies in cancer. GamaMabs’ lead project is the monoclonal antibody (mAb) GM102 (formerly known as 3C23K), and they have previously partnered with Curie Cancer Institute […]

December 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 16 Dec 2015

Global NGS Leader’s Influence in European Bioinformatics Field is Spreading Interest in Microbiomics

BioMérieux (France) is a diagnostics tech company which has partnered with the US Bioinformatics Giant Illumina to produce a novel Microbiological genetics sequencing kit: the bioMérieux EpiSeq. BioMérieux is a worldwide leading provider of diagnostic solutions (reagents, instruments, software) which determine the source of disease and contamination to improve patient health and reduce risk of hospital […]

December 16, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 15 Dec 2015

Berlin Biotech Breakthrough: Myelo is Only 3 Years old and Already Starting a Phase II Trial for Breast Cancer!

Myelo Therapeutics in Berlin (Germany) has been approved for a phase II trial for its Chemo-induced Neutropenia therapy for Breast cancer after completing a successful series B financing round. A reduced level of neutrophils (a type of leukocyte) is called neutropenia. It can leave a patient vulnerable to infection and to developing febrile neutropenia, a […]

December 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 15 Dec 2015

Latest Small Molecule against Alzheimer’s Disease Success in Phase I Trials

Probiodrug‘s phase I tolerability and efficacy trial for Alzheimer’s didn’t quite go as planned, although results are in and it is still good news for this small molecule candidate. Probiodrug in Halle (Germany) is pioneering immunotherapy approaches to eliminate pyroglutamated (pGlu) Abeta, a highly toxic peptide that has been linked to the progression of Alzheimer’s […]

December 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

Best in Biotech 15 Dec 2015

Becoming Cyborg: 10 Amazing MedTech Inventions in the Biotech Industry

There have been some truly amazing Med-tech developments this year, each sounding like they’re right out of Science fiction (Fringe, anyone?!). Here’s a few seriously worth talking about. Gradually, we too are becoming turning bionic in our attitude to medicine – and due to accessibility of manufacturing platforms, creative innovators like those in the Biohacking […]

December 15, 2015 - 8 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 14 Dec 2015

World’s First Microbiome Fund Swells to €160M With Major Pharma Also Chipping In

The French VC firm Seventure‘s Health for Life Capital investment fund for Microbiome and Biotech has had an additional €60M pumped into it by Swiss Pharma Giant Novartis and other investors. Health for Life Capital is the first and unique microbiome focused investment vehicle. Now it has been announced that Novartis and other investors have also become […]

December 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 14 Dec 2015

Red Blood Cells to Carry Drugs? A US Start-Up Inspired by French Biotech to Focus on Rare Metabolic Disease

Erytech (France) is working on a drug-transportation system using red blood cells. Now US Rubius Therapeutics joins Erytech on this new approach to drug delivery, backed by the huge VC in the States; Flagship Ventures. Flagship Ventures has yet again shown its comprehensive portfolio in biotech through another EU inspired Biotech start-up. Rubius Therapeutics in […]

December 14, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 12 Dec 2015

What happened this week? Ultimate CAR-T Review, Infographic, Healthcare Disruptors

Monday: Organs-on-chips: Will They Lead to the End of Animal Testing? Tuesday: Ultimate Review: CAR-T is The Game-changer in Cancer Treatments Wednesday: Here are the 6 Healthcare Disruptors We met in Paris Thursday: Infographic: The Anatomy of Biotech Friday: “Structural Biology is changing the way we design drugs” P.S I was at the big UK […]

December 12, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 11 Dec 2015

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

London’s Desktop Genetics and their remote CRISPR and digital genetics platform has caught the eye of US Illumina – the US Competitor to German Giant QIAGEN in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)… Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) is an online service that researchers can use to design CRISPR gene editing experiments, purchase reagents and find commercial entities to […]

December 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Finally! Galapagos New Mystery Partner to Replace AbbVie Revealed in €2Bn Deal

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Ovarian Cancer Kills 50,000 Every Year. Now a French Biotech has Bagged €15M to Fight it.

Global NGS Leader’s Influence in European Bioinformatics Field is Spreading Interest in Microbiomics

Berlin Biotech Breakthrough: Myelo is Only 3 Years old and Already Starting a Phase II Trial for Breast Cancer!

Latest Small Molecule against Alzheimer’s Disease Success in Phase I Trials

Becoming Cyborg: 10 Amazing MedTech Inventions in the Biotech Industry

World’s First Microbiome Fund Swells to €160M With Major Pharma Also Chipping In

Red Blood Cells to Carry Drugs? A US Start-Up Inspired by French Biotech to Focus on Rare Metabolic Disease

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