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News and Trends 24 Jun 2016

Cost-effective diagnostics for cancer? Only with VolitionRx!

Aberdeen, we say goodbye to you! We’re leaving Scotland this week and are heading down to Belgium. Besides being the place where most of the European Union action happens, Belgium also has a strong and interesting biotech scene. That’s why in Namur we’re visiting VolitionRx, our Biotech of the Week. City: Namur (Belgium) Founded: 2010 Employees: 11-50 employees […]

June 24, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 23 Jun 2016

Alzheimer’s closer to a Vaccine with new Slovakian Phase II Trial

Axon Neuroscience is starting a Phase II trial with its immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease, which redirects the immune system against defective Tau proteins, thought to be the main cause of this major disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the cause of up to 70% of dementia cases, according to WHO, which translates in over 30 million patients […]

June 23, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 23 Jun 2016

‘Snake-bite Jesus’ pitched at Labiotech Refresh

VenomAb made quite an impression at the Startup Battle of Labiotech Refresh. Want to know what makes a biotech audience gasp unanimously? Then take a look at VenomAb’s pitch… We had Andreas Laustsen, founder of VenomAb, pitch his startup’s mission to bring antivenoms out of the 1900s into the modern age of biotech. The idea really captured […]

June 23, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 23 Jun 2016

How did we grow from 0 to 40,000 Monthly Visitors in 18 Months?

The first 18 months of our startup have been a marathon for us, where each new visitor was like one more kilometer to conquer. Growing a digital media is not an easy task, especially if you want to build a good reputation based on the quality of your content. In this article, I share the […]

June 23, 2016 - 7 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 23 Jun 2016

Cellectis gets paid for a first Milestone, Investors are pleased

After successfully ‘saving’ two babies with terminal-stage acute Leukemia, Cellectis finally treated the first patient in its Phase I trial. A major milestone that could confirm the potential of its lead candidate UCART-19. It’s once again a success for the French biotech company! As it announced on Monday, the first patient has been treated in […]

June 23, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 22 Jun 2016

What is Microsoft doing with this French Precision Medicine Biotech?

Median Technologies is partnering up with software giant Microsoft to integrate big data into its oncology imaging systems – and deliver Precision Medicine from the cloud. Medical imaging is an important part of the rise of digital medicine. Cool projects in the field include the aortic graft simulation of EVARplanning (one of the startups at Italian incubator […]

June 22, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 22 Jun 2016

World’s first CRISPR Clinical trial has just been Approved!

CRISPR has received a regulatory green light in what could be the first clinical trial with the “scientific discovery of the century”. It’ll be used to improve cancer cell therapies. CRISPR has already revolutionized biotech, quickly overtaking the field of gene editing. It also has immense potential in the therapeutic field, so it’s not surprising there’s a lot […]

June 22, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 22 Jun 2016

Massive Round: Novel Antifungals get €53M from Top-Notch Investors

F2G has raised €53M to advance its news class of treatments for life-threatening fungal infections, including invasive aspergillosis. The technology has attracted some of the major biotech investors in Europe. Based in Manchester (UK), F2G focuses on developing therapies for invasive fungal infections such as aspergillosis. This type of infections mostly affect patients that are […]

June 22, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

Best in Biotech 22 Jun 2016

11 Biotech Leaders you should meet in Munich

I guess you’ve read some of our tops lately (VCs, Paris, Unicorns). Those were mainly about specific companies or regions. Now, we wanted to try a new format and focus on people instead. For this first edition, we decided to focus on Munich, one of Europe’s top biotech regions. I asked some biotech leaders in Munich […]

June 22, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 21 Jun 2016

Allergy Immunotherapy Knocked Out in Phase III by an ‘Overperforming Placebo’

Circassia’s pipeline takes a major step back as its therapy for cat allergy gets disappointing results — it had the same effect as the placebo. Stocks promptly sank by 65%. The Oxford-based Circassia has been a major European player in the field of allergy immunotherapies. It made a splash when it raised €267.7M in the London Stock […]

June 21, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 21 Jun 2016

“The Microbiome will be as big as Biotech in 10 Years”

Isabelle de Cremoux, the CEO of Seventure Partners, was at Labiotech Refresh to tell us when and how she fell in love with the microbiome and what the future holds for this exciting field. De Cremoux is the person behind Seventure, one of the top European VCs and the first in the world to focus mainly […]

June 21, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 21 Jun 2016

UK Partnership is looking for new Epigenetic targets in Respiratory Disease

AstraZeneca and MRC Technology are launching an initiative to find new epigenetic targets in respiratory disease. By picking promising academic research, the two parties expect to lock in new drugs for diseases like asthma. After partnering up with genomics elite for a new biobank, AstraZeneca is again preparing to tap into collaborations with academia. This […]

June 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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