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News and Trends 26 Sep 2015

Replimune smashes Oncolytic viral €26.8M series A financing round

Replimune is an Oxford (UK) biotech baby, having only been founded in April this year a spin-off of former US BioVex. Nonetheless, this hasn’t stopped its Series A finance round reaching up to €26.8M. Replimune’s focal research is in developing new immuno-oncology therapies using oncolytic viruses, inspired by BioVex-Amgen’s T-VEC success. Replimune was founded by […]

September 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 25 Sep 2015

This week’s major stories outside the EU you NEED to read! (Martin Shkreli, Biolimb, OrbiMed)

Happy Saturday everyone! This week was full of so many good articles, we’re doing a top 7 top stories outside the EU you need to know! Yes, you heard correctly, seven of the best articles for your reading pleasure, you are most welcome ;). THE CEO WHO JACKED UP THE PRICE OF A DRUG BY 5000% […]

September 25, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 25 Sep 2015

Two French Biotechs are fighting in court…for nothing

We are all familiar with stories of lawsuits in the tech sector (e.g. remember the Apple and Samsung debacle?) but it’s less well known for Biotechs to butt heads. Nonetheless, the French-Danish Biotech oncology company Onxeo, and Eurofins (a huge 19K employee group which deals in clinical services) fought it out in Paris’ commerce court: to […]

September 25, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 25 Sep 2015

Roche’s patent halts an Amgen biosimilar debut

Amgen has had great success with its Avastin biosimilar, used as an inhibitor of angiogenesis in tumor growth. However, despite smashing the phase III trials, the Amgen-Allergan partnership still has to wait until 2022 for Roche’s European Avastin patent to expire. Amgen partnered up with Dublin based Allergan (Ireland) for a comprehensive oncology biosimilars pipeline […]

September 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 24 Sep 2015

Heart Attacks: TiGenix advances its cardiac stem-cell therapy

Belgian TiGenix NV released the phase I results of their cardiac stem-cell therapy at the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in London earlier this month. In July, TiGenix acquired the smaller biotech CoreTherapix with the AlloCSC-01 pipeline. This stem-cell therapy is for regeneration of heart muscle following a heart attack, and is currently […]

September 24, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 24 Sep 2015

Crowdsourcing for Innovation: BioMed X has just the right Recipe

Ever heard of BioMed X? If you are curious about innovation crowdsourcing, you should definitely check them out. BioMed X is one of the first companies to use crowdsourcing to discover new innovation in the life sciences, through which a biotech team has been assembled and financed to develop a new treatment for COPD. Chronic obstructive pulmonary […]

September 24, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

Inside Labiotech 23 Sep 2015

Labiotech.eu is 1 year old: Discover our Entrepreneurial Journey!

Hi there, Yesterday, with 30 guests from Berlin, we celebrated the first year of Labiotech.eu! Not only that we survived but we also have now more than 15,000 people visiting our website each month. Thank you all, that makes us the Europe’s leading digital media for Biotech! I am extremely proud of what we achieved and […]

September 23, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 23 Sep 2015

British Bionic Pancreas controlled by iPhone to revolutionize Type I Diabetes treatment

It’s finally happened; a research team from the University of Cambridge (UK) has managed to develop a closed loop beta-cell based insulin delivery system for diabetes type I. This bionic pancreas prototype has been constructed for human trials using an iPhone app which monitors blood glucose levels. There are 3 components to the bionic pancreas; […]

September 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 23 Sep 2015

NovoCure, the Israeli tumor specialist announces NASDAQ €170M IPO

NovoCure, originally from Haifa (Israel) is planning an IPO on NASDAQ with a target of €170M to make from its 12.5M shares on offer. It is hoped this financial injection will further commercialize its FDA-approved tumor treating field (TTField) medical device Optune. NovoCure is a commercial stage oncology biotech specialising in trials for solid-tumor treatments. Founded […]

September 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 22 Sep 2015

Francis Crick Institute pushes to do human embryo research

The Francis Crick Institute from London has announced its application to conduct non-clinical purpose research on human embryos. The Francis Crick Institute is a cutting-edge collaboration of the UK’s leading medical research organisations: the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, various London academic institutions and the Wellcome Trust. Currently still under construction, it is based in […]

September 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 22 Sep 2015

UniQure’s cure for rare Lysosomal disease ready for phase III trial

UniQure from the Netherlands has promising results for its enzyme replacement therapy phase Ib/II trial targeting a rare Lysosomal disease. This has granted fast-track approval to launch its phase III trial for children with Sanfilippo Type B (MPS-III) in collaboration with France’s Institut Pasteur. UniQure is the Amsterdam gene-therapy biotech with a lot going on. Last year […]

September 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 22 Sep 2015

Selvita moves in: The biggest Polish biotech on the Boston Block

Welcome to the US! Polish Selvita has announced its new US HQ in Cambridge (MA), which they hope will better integrate their drug-discovery work into the US market. Selvita, from Krakow (Poland) is the largest Polish biotech with 265+ employees, 86 of which hold PhDs. Having been built on offering pre-clinical services to over 50 US/EU […]

September 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Two French Biotechs are fighting in court…for nothing

Roche’s patent halts an Amgen biosimilar debut

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Crowdsourcing for Innovation: BioMed X has just the right Recipe

Labiotech.eu is 1 year old: Discover our Entrepreneurial Journey!

British Bionic Pancreas controlled by iPhone to revolutionize Type I Diabetes treatment

NovoCure, the Israeli tumor specialist announces NASDAQ €170M IPO

Francis Crick Institute pushes to do human embryo research

UniQure’s cure for rare Lysosomal disease ready for phase III trial

Selvita moves in: The biggest Polish biotech on the Boston Block

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