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News and Trends 16 Apr 2016

First Euronext Biotech IPO of 2016 is Swiss, and for Multiple Sclerosis!

We last wrote about GeNeuro in January, when they announced the launch of an IPO for their Multiple Sclerosis phase IIb trial. Now, as of yesterday they are listed on the Euronext Paris market. GeNeuro (in Geneva) is developing therapies and diagnostic tools for diseases associated with the expression of the human endogenous retrovirus MSRV, such […]

April 16, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 9 Mar 2016

Boehringer Ingelheim Gets €540M upfront for the next Potential Antibody Blockbuster

Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany) has entered a new collaboration with AbbVie (US) to develop two new candidates for immune diseases, including psoriasis and Crohn’s disease. Therapies for immune diseases continue to attract Pharma’s attention (and money). This time, two of 25 leading Big Pharma worldwide, AbbVie and Boehringer Ingelheim, have partnered to develop 2 different immunological candidates. […]

March 9, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 22 Feb 2016

Can this Positive Phase III Immunotherapy End Spinal Fractures due to Osteoporosis?

UCB (Belgium) has a monoclonal antibody candidate (romozumab) which has met its primary endpoints for a phase III Osteoporosis trial, FRAME in partnership with Amgen. The drug showed 75% improvement (compared to placebo) and few side effects. UCB in Brussels is developing immunotherapies for a range of chronic diseases, which has now gotten good phase III results for an […]

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

News and Trends 16 Feb 2016

World’s Best Journal in Medicine Publishes on Phase II Llama Antibodies

Ablynx, the llama antibody biotech in Belgium, has now proven to be on solid ground regarding their orphan drug for a rare blood disease. Now the New England Journal of Medicine has published their phase II results. Ablynx often makes our biotech headlines, be it with the curious science of their nanobody platform or with their partnerships with […]

February 16, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 15 Feb 2016

Celebrating the 10th Birthday of this German Infectious Disease Biotech with the CEO

AiCuris is a Biotech company based on the Bayer Life Sciences park in Wuppertal (Germany). It is working on new anti-infective drugs and is a former spin-off of Germany’s biggest Pharma Company. It’s celebrating its 10th birthday this year, which is good reason to interview the CEO… So AiCuris is working on anti-infective drugs for […]

February 15, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 5 Feb 2016

Biotech of the week: Effimune, the French Success-story in autoimmune disease

This week, we leave central Spain and head North-East, across the Pyrenees and head to the largest city in ‘Traditional Brittany’, France, and also the this week’s location, Nantes. This picturesque city was voted the most Green in EU (2013), is famous for the production of Muscadet wine and is home to our biotech of […]

February 5, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 3 Feb 2016

When the Llama met the Lion: Antibodies Unlock Milestone Payment for Skin Disease

ArGEN-X in Ghent (Belgium) combines the diversity of the llama immune system with a clinical antibody pipeline which Leo Pharma (Denmark), is developing to treat inflammatory skin conditions. These llama mAb platforms allow arGEN-X to unlock novel and complex targets and develop antibody-based drugs designed for longer duration of effect and greater efficacy. This is a similar approach to which Ablynx […]

February 3, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 21 Jan 2016

Fighting Lupus with an Autoimmune Disease Vaccine that Uses Limpet Proteins

Neovacs in Paris (France) investigates immunotherapies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and today signed a partnering agreement with the molluscan protein manufacturer, Stellar Biotechnologies (US). This joint venture will operate under the name of Neostell SAS, and it will be owned 30:70, the majority going to Neovacs. Neovacs is a biotech focused on an active immunotherapy technology platform (Kinoids) […]

January 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 3 Dec 2015

Meet the Company Fighting Autoimmune Diseases with a Novel Immunotherapy

BIO-Europe 2015 was a good opportunity for us to meet people who are playing a key role in the Biotech industry. I had the opportunity to meet Miguel Sieler, CEO of Neovacs, a company that can potentially be the first to develop a therapeutic vaccine for lupus patients! Neovacs is a French biotechnology company developing […]

December 3, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 22 Oct 2015

For when it actually is Lupus: New Autoimmune Crisis Drug reaches Human Trials

ArGEN-X from Ghent (BE) and Breda (NL) has initiated its phase I human trials for Auto-immune diseases such as systemic lupus erythmatosus (SLE) – a rare chronic disease which has had little progress in the last 50 years. Here is the story behind SLE… As a rare disease, Dr. House and his fictional diagnostics team […]

October 22, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Sep 2015

Apitope relocates to Wales after €12M series B financing round

Now, as we’ve recently discussed here at Labiotech, there doesn’t appear to be many Welsh biotechs…however, this is all about to change, with major Autoimmune disease focused Apitope relocating it’s HQ to Wales. This is following a €12M series B fundraiser led by the Wales Lifesciences Fund for its monoclonal antibody pipeline. Aptiope are currently […]

September 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Jul 2015

UCB’s Lupus treatment breaks down in Phase III

Big disappointment for Belgian UCB. After 9 years of research, its lead candidate in Immunology, designed to treat Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, failed in Phase III. The drug was acquired from Immunomedics in 2006 and costed at least $38M. Epratuzumab is a monoclonal antibody for the treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, developed by Immunomedics. For the […]

July 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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