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News and Trends 15 Feb 2016

Europe’s Richest Microbiome Biotech Acquires Irish Start-up To Accelerate!

Have you ever heard of 4D pharma (UK)? Well, it’s become one of the biggest and cash-rich players in the European Microbiome scene. Perhaps the acquisition of this Irish Chronic disease spin-off will bring their name to the spotlight… 4D pharma in Leeds (England) acquired Tucana, a spin-off from the University College Cork (UCC), to complement its therapeutic platform […]

February 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 12 Feb 2016

World’s Largest Genome Sequencing Project partners with Global Leader in NGS

Genomics England (UK) today announce a partnership with the Next-Generation Sequencing Giant, Illumina (US), to develop a platform that can be used to improve and automate genome interpretation as part of the 100,000 Genome Project. The tools will operate within the Genomics England secure database to enable researchers and clinicians to access information and reports more readily. […]

February 12, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 8 Feb 2016

The European Union Finances the Future of CAR-T Manufacturing

CAR-T is the way forward in Cancer therapeutics, which is one of the leading causes of Mortality in the Western world. Now this European consortium has amassed €6M for a more unified approach to CAR-T under a European Union Commission program. In response to this major health issue Miltenyi Biotec (Germany) coordinates the new EU-funded project […]

February 8, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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

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 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 27 Jan 2016

New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas

AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and the 3 world-leading universities (Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Cambridge) have joined forces to found the ‘Apollo’ Bridge. This pioneering new joint venture, the Apollo Therapeutics Fund, will support the translation of ground-breaking academic science from within these universities into innovative new medicines for […]

January 27, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 25 Jan 2016

This Potential First in Class Cancer Therapy Could Help Patients Avoid Eye Surgery

Immunocore in Oxford (UK) has been Granted Orphan Drug Designation for a Phase I Super rare Eye cancer drug by the FDA. Uveal melanoma is a rare disease in which cancer cells form in the tissues of the eye, and comprises approximately 3% of all melanomas. It is actually the primary intraocular malignancy of the adult eye and currently, […]

January 25, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Jan 2016

Novozymes Spawn World’s First Recombinant Albumin Biotech in Denmark

Novozymes in Bagsværd (Denmark) has just announced it has separated its biopharma activities into an independent company, called Albumedix. Novozymes is almost purely industrial biotech, as the World’s leading enzyme manufacturer. However, they also have some expertise in Health, which has now budded off (like yeast!) to become a wholly owned subsidiary, Albumedix. Albumedix is […]

January 19, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 14 Jan 2016

World First: Scotland and Norway have Founded a Unique Oceanic Algae Plant

GlycoMar (Scotland) and MicroA (Norway) are Algae specialists in the Biotech industry which have now funded a joint Venture, Prasinotech, which is the first in the world to refine the production of polysaccharides from microalgae. GlycoMar is based at the European Centre for Marine Biotechnology, near Oban (Scotland), and is a specialist biotech developing new […]

January 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Europe’s Richest Microbiome Biotech Acquires Irish Start-up To Accelerate!

World’s Largest Genome Sequencing Project partners with Global Leader in NGS

The European Union Finances the Future of CAR-T Manufacturing

New €210M Life Sciences Fund is Launched in UK

Huge Milestone: UK Approves CRISPR Editing on Human Embryos

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

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

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

New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas

This Potential First in Class Cancer Therapy Could Help Patients Avoid Eye Surgery

Novozymes Spawn World’s First Recombinant Albumin Biotech in Denmark

World First: Scotland and Norway have Founded a Unique Oceanic Algae Plant

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