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News and Trends 19 Nov 2015

Why has the Universal CAR-T Treatment For Leukemia Hooked TWO Big Pharmas at Once?

French Servier and Pfizer have already had independent partnerships with Cellectis on various R&D areas. But now the two have signed a joint partnership on Cellectis’s leading product UCART19 for blood cancer. This unusual move only further feeds the rumours of Pfizer’s potential future acquisition of Cellectis. As we’ve discussed before, Cellectis has moved most […]

November 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Nov 2015

“The Next Generation of Biologicals will be Cell-based”

That’s what Zami Aberman, CEO of one of the world-leading cell-therapy company Pluristem told me during our lunch at Berlin this week. An enthusiastic statement for a sector that could indeed be the next blockbuster after the monoclonal antibodies. Pluristem is an Israel based Biotech company developing off-the-shelf cell therapies for a variety of human diseases. What makes […]

November 19, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Nov 2015

This 10,000 Employee French Pharma is Finally Entering the Biotech Partnership Race

Biotech is getting more and more about partnering rather than doing everything alone. Some conservative Pharmas, which worked to more of a ‘Silo model’, are now branching out in a more open approach; the last one being the Pharma company from the south-west of France Pierre Fabre. The company, named after its iconic founder Pierre Fabre, […]

November 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 18 Nov 2015

Biotech ‘al dente’ – Italy Inaugurates its First Biotech Accelerator

Sofinnova Partners, one of the leading European venture capital firms has helped launch the country’s first ever Biotech accelerator – BiovelocITA. This brand new enterprise intends to boost the Italian biotech market to boom to the same degree it has in countries like Germany and France. Milan launches BiovelocITA, the first Italian accelerator dedicated to […]

November 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 Nov 2015

The UK Catapults Cell Therapy Manufacture into Europe with a €78.5M New Facility

The UK Government’s Innovate has invested over €78.5M into a new Cell-therapy manufacturing facility for the major UK biotech Catapult Cell Therapy to be located in the growing Biotech cluster in Stevenage. Catapult is a big deal in the UK Biotech scene (apparently) and their division in Cell therapeutics founded in 2012 already has a […]

November 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 18 Nov 2015

Nanomedicine Inside Out: A Nestlé Advance in Cuboid Drug Delivery Systems

A New feat in Nanomedicine: The Cubosome drug delivery system has now been 3D-mappped and studied internally by Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and University of Coimbra (Portugal) at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne (Switzerland). What are Cubosomes? These small nanostructures are ‘crystalline liquid phases’ engineered in bulk to hold […]

November 18, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 17 Nov 2015

What will Happen now the Microbiome Hype has Broken into the Immuno-Oncology Field?

The Microbiome and Immuno-Oncology fields are hugely trendy in the Biotech Industry – and now a marriage between the two has finally occurred… The Microbiome field is still very new, with the launch of the US Human Microbiome Project just happening in 2008. Nonetheless, some start-ups are moving fast up the microbiome ranks, as well […]

November 17, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 17 Nov 2015

Epigenetics Drug Discovery has a New Champion!

Last week at BIO-Europe 2015 in Munich, I had the opportunity to meet Torsten Hoffmann, CSO of Proteros who told me more about the recent incursion of his company in the Epigenetics space! Proteros is a leader of the Structural Biology field. So, what is this field exactly? Usually, when a Pharmaceutical company is looking […]

November 17, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 16 Nov 2015

Interview with the CEO of Genfit – The Billion Euro Liver Biotech on its phase III NASH Drug

Interview with Jean-François Mouney (Chairman and CEO of Genfit) at the ‘Liver Meeting 2015‘ congress for the American Association for the study of Liver disease (AASLD) on Friday in San Francisco (US). Genfit is the European leader in NASH research (Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), today making the news again at AASLD in San Francisco. The company, which […]

November 16, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 16 Nov 2015

Swissmedic Approves Zambon and Newron Therapy against Parkinson’s

Italian Pharma Newron and its partner Zambon (from Milan) have been granted a license by Swissmedic (the regulatory agency in Switzerland) for Xadago, a new combo ‘add-on’ therapy for Parkinson’s Disease. Zambon, is a Pharmaceutical Company with a strong commitment in central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Its partner, Newron Pharmaceuticals, is a research and development biotech from northern […]

November 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 16 Nov 2015

What are Money-Magnet Moderna’s future plans? French Founding CEO explains here

Before the end of the mRNA conference in Berlin, I had to interview Stephane Bancel, the French founding CEO of Moderna…one of the biggest deals in Biotech today. Moderna is the mRNA therapies companies from Cambridge/Boston (US), most famous for having raised over 900 million dollars in VC money. I met Stephane one and a […]

November 16, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 14 Nov 2015

What happened this week? mRNA Therapies, TCR & Algae Beer

Monday: Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer Tuesday: What the FUGT? We tried the Algae Bar Beer for the TransArt Fest in Copenhagen! Wednesday: Using Algae and NanoTech to Kill Cancer: An Australian-German Collaboration Thursday (two interviews): Interview: The ‘RNA’ People’s Pioneering Strategy to get mRNA Therapies onto the Market EU’s Largest Private […]

November 14, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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Why has the Universal CAR-T Treatment For Leukemia Hooked TWO Big Pharmas at Once?

“The Next Generation of Biologicals will be Cell-based”

This 10,000 Employee French Pharma is Finally Entering the Biotech Partnership Race

Biotech ‘al dente’ – Italy Inaugurates its First Biotech Accelerator

The UK Catapults Cell Therapy Manufacture into Europe with a €78.5M New Facility

Nanomedicine Inside Out: A Nestlé Advance in Cuboid Drug Delivery Systems

What will Happen now the Microbiome Hype has Broken into the Immuno-Oncology Field?

Epigenetics Drug Discovery has a New Champion!

Interview with the CEO of Genfit – The Billion Euro Liver Biotech on its phase III NASH Drug

Swissmedic Approves Zambon and Newron Therapy against Parkinson’s

What are Money-Magnet Moderna’s future plans? French Founding CEO explains here

What happened this week? mRNA Therapies, TCR & Algae Beer

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