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News and Trends 29 Sep 2015

Will Roche lose its Worldwide Leading position in Cancer treatments?

Roche is the worldwide leader in cancer treatments, but it’s threatened by the increasing competition of biosimilars and the development of next-generation cancer drugs. Is there a risk for the “biggest Biotechnology company worldwide” to lose its leading position on the lucrative anti-cancer business? The Swiss giant makes massive amount of cash with its cancer treatments, […]

September 29, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 28 Sep 2015

Sanofi and Regeneron’s Praluent succeeds at final hurdle with EU authorisation

Regeneron (NY, USA) has finally brought alirocumab (trade name Praluent) to the finish line with collaborator Sanofi, today announcing that the European commission has granted its hypercholesterolemia drug a marketing license for the EU. Having already been approved by the FDA in July, this completes Praluent’s launch into the Western pharma market. New-York based Regeneron […]

September 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Sep 2015

Bio-mining the Diversity of Deserts: A Biotech industry Goldmine

Deserts can be either hot or cold according to their geographical location, leading to the evolution of extremophilic organisms which are adapted to withstand such hostile living conditions. Here, we explore some of the potential industrial biotech applications of desert microbes, from bioremediation of pollutants such as PCP, to the investigation of novel anti-cancer compounds. […]

September 28, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 28 Sep 2015

AbbVie abandons Galapagos phase III and stock plummets 39% (and still dropping)

What was AbbVie thinking? Backing out of a $1.4Bn deal to support Belgian biotech Galapagos’ rheumatoid arthritis candidate through its phase III, means NASDAQ stock is plummeting in value since Friday. With plans to work on its own phase II candidate instead, AbbVie is losing out on the potential of filgotinib, which will surely have […]

September 28, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Sep 2015

New Smart Collaboration of Nestlé and AC Immune Against Alzheimer’s disease

Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) is teaming up with the Swiss AC Immune to develop a new minimally invasive Tau diagnostic assay for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease has a new case every three seconds, totaling up to 9.9 million new cases of dementia every year. To combat this, AC Immune will […]

September 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 27 Sep 2015

What Happened this Week? Human Embryos Back on the Bench, Stem Cells in your Heart and New Antibiotics

Monday: Nabriva Therapeutics launched its $100M IPO on the NASDAQ to develop new antibiotics Tuesday: the Francis Crick Institute announced its application to conduct new research on human embryos Wednesday: Israeli NovoCure announced an IPO on NASDAQ with a target of €170M Thursday: Belgian TiGenix NV released the phase I results of their cardiac stem-cell therapy […]

September 27, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

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

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Will Roche lose its Worldwide Leading position in Cancer treatments?

Sanofi and Regeneron’s Praluent succeeds at final hurdle with EU authorisation

Bio-mining the Diversity of Deserts: A Biotech industry Goldmine

AbbVie abandons Galapagos phase III and stock plummets 39% (and still dropping)

New Smart Collaboration of Nestlé and AC Immune Against Alzheimer’s disease

What Happened this Week? Human Embryos Back on the Bench, Stem Cells in your Heart and New Antibiotics

Replimune smashes Oncolytic viral €26.8M series A financing round

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

Two French Biotechs are fighting in court…for nothing

Roche’s patent halts an Amgen biosimilar debut

Heart Attacks: TiGenix advances its cardiac stem-cell therapy

Crowdsourcing for Innovation: BioMed X has just the right Recipe

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