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News and Trends 2 Feb 2016

New €210M Life Sciences Fund is Launched in UK

Medicxi Ventures, Formerly Index Ventures Life Sciences, Launches as an Independent Venture Capital Firm and Announces Closing of a €210M Fund including GSK and Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Medicxi Ventures is based in London, Geneva and Jersey and has been investing in the Life Sciences field for over 20 years. It comprises all of the legacy portfolio […]

February 2, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

In Depth 2 Feb 2016

The Unlimited Biotech Potential of Algae

Is the Future of Biotech…Green? The Algae Industry ranges from Biofuels to Nutrition to Fashion and Microalgae hold lots of potential for the industry to expand. But why? And do Venture Capitalists agree? Microalgae have already been established as incredibly valuable to the biotech industry, in part due to their ancient genetic diversity and resilience, providing […]

February 2, 2016 - 9 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

Huge Milestone: UK Approves CRISPR Editing on Human Embryos

This could be a HUGE game-changer for Europe’s research on stem cells, and more broadly Gene Editing…. Research on human embryos is a very touchy subject. And when you want to allow the use of the most powerful gene-editing tool on them, it’s becomes even touchier. Research on human embryos has been forbidden almost everywhere (with exception to China […]

February 1, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

Cancer Research UK has teamed up with MSD (Merck) and the Wellcome Trust to co-develop some Inhibitors for both Cancerous and Non-cancerous blood disorders from the Australian Academia-Biotech Network. The Australian Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) in Melbourne has a range of investigational inhibitors for blood disorders – including Leukemia. CTx is collaborative partnership […]

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

World CAR-T Leader Starts New Program with a UK Biotech

Pretty impressive CAR-T news coming from across the Channel… Oxford BioMedica just launched a second collaboration with Novartis, which has shown tremendous Phase II results – and the most advanced in CAR-T therapy in development so far (read our review on how CAR-T works and who else is working the field). This collaboration covers the […]

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Jan 2016

What happened this week? 5 Fantastic Biotech Years, Galapagos, Biotech on French TV

Monday: Nature’s Machines: Biohacking Evolution to Destroy Pollutants Tuesday: 2011-2015: What a Fantastic 5 Years for European Biotech Wednesday: French Investor Leads €60M Financial Round for the Future of DNA Synthesis Thursday: This Young CEO is Making Biotech Popular in France Friday: Pei-Ying Lin’s BioArt: Stunning Smallpox, Nutritious NanoFood and Microbial Fractals Bonus: 10 Interesting European […]

January 30, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 29 Jan 2016

Pei-Ying Lin’s BioArt: Stunning Smallpox, Nutritious NanoFood and Microbial Fractals

Pei-Ying Lin founded the Taiwanese BioArt community with her Science-Humanities and programming background to tackle complex BioArt statements all across the EU. Lin is a Scientist-turned-artist, with her fascination in BioArt having stemmed from a Life Sciences degree from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and a Masters at the Royal College of Art in London. She’s also […]

January 29, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Jan 2016

Biotech of the week: Vivia Biotech, the Spanish Pioneer in Personalised Medicine

This week we leave the cold winds of Sweden and head south, to warmer weather and say ¡Hola! to Spain and the location for this week, Madrid. This vibrant city is famous for one of the best football teams in the world, the oldest restaurant in the world (opened in 1725!) and is home to the […]

January 29, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 28 Jan 2016

This Young CEO is Making Biotech Popular in France

Biotech is often a touchy subject for conversation, which is not always understood by the general public, and even less appreciated… Xavier Duportet, the 28-year-old French founder of Eligo Bioscience (read Our interview here) was this week on the hugely popular French TV-show Le Petit Journal to talk about Biotech. This program is the most popular such medium […]

January 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 28 Jan 2016

Sweden and Switzerland Join in on Microbiome Hype with New Karolinska Research Centre

Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland) and the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) announce a collaboration on a new research centere exploiting the human microbiome. The Karolinska Institutet has a deep understanding of the human microbiome, and the institute actually accounts for over 40% of the medical academic research conducted in Sweden (not to mention their long-standing ties with the Nobel Prize […]

January 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Jan 2016

Viral Immunotherapy Trial Failure Causes French Biotech Stocks to Drop 43%

Genticel (France) is a clinical biotech developing a cervical cancer immunotherapy against the Human papillomavirus. However, their 24-month phase II trial has failed to meet primary endpoint at its halfway point, and their stocks dropped 43% overnight. Around 70% of cervical cancer cases are caused by 2 types of Human papillomavirus (HPV): 16 and 18. And among the 300 million women around the […]

January 28, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 27 Jan 2016

French Investor Leads €60M Financial Round for the Future of DNA Synthesis

Twist Bioscience is a San Francisco Biotech accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis piece of tech. And now, Twist has completed a $61 million Series D round. An improved silicon-based design compared to the traditional 96-well plates could do wonders for DNA synthesis, including major improvements in cost and time of the process. And the […]

January 27, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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