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More News! 15 Nov 2022

Sequana Medical has positive results for heart failure therapy drug

Sequana Medical has had some very positive top-line results from a phase 2a study, that the company says reinforces its view that direct sodium removal (DSR) is a potential disease modifying heart failure therapy. The study called SAHARA was testing its first-generation DSR product, DSR 1.0. Data from ten evaluable diuretic-resistant heart failure patients with […]

November 15, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

More News! 14 Nov 2022

BioSenic’s autoimmune disease platform adapting to meet unmet medical needs

BioSenic’s systemic autoimmune disease platform, originally designed by Medsenic, is now developing controlled dosages and new formulations adapted to a significant number of important indications with unmet medical needs. BioSenic specializes in serious autoimmune and inflammatory diseases as well as cell repair. The update follows the announcement of the merger between Bone Therapeutics and Medsenic […]

November 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 4 Nov 2022

Novadip Biosciences raises €40M for bone defect treatments

Novadip Biosciences has raised an additional €40 million ($39.2 million) in a series B equity round and non-dilutive funding. The clinical-stage biopharma company is developing a new class of regenerative tissue products to accelerate healing of large bone defects and injuries in a single treatment. The funding will accelerate the clinical development of two of […]

November 4, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Oct 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 20: BioWin, eTherapeutics, CMT Research Foundation

This week, we have three interviews, and four guests. We chatted with Keith Fargo, chief scientific officer at the CMT Research Foundation; François Colery, head of the Talent Now initiative and Sylvie Ponchaut, managing director, from BioWin; and e-therapeutics’ CEO, Ali Mortazavi. We also have our weekly contribution from global commercial real estate services company […]

October 28, 2022

News and Trends 19 Oct 2022

Domain Therapeutics to start clinical trials of solid tumor treatment

Domain Therapeutics says its immuno-oncology candidate has been cleared in Belgium and France, leading to a phase I clinical trial. It has cleared its clinical trial applications with the ANSM (Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé) in France and the AFMPS (Agence Fédérale des Médicaments et des Produits de Santé) […]

October 19, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 10 Oct 2022

Biocartis starts European commercialization of liver cancer test

Biocartis Group NV has started the commercialization in Europe of the HepatoPredict test as a CE-IVD marked manual kit. The test, developed by Portuguese biotech company Ophiomics, is a prognostic diagnostic test that supports the decision of liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Herman Verrelst, chief executive officer of Biocartis, said: “We are […]

October 10, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Oct 2022

Ziphius and UZ Ghent collaborating on manufacture of saRNA-based vaccines

Ziphius Vaccines, a biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines and therapeutics based on self-amplifying RNA (saRNA), and UZ Ghent have entered a public-private collaboration for the scale up and manufacturing of prophylactic self-amplifying RNA vaccines based on GMP (good manufacturing practice) standards. The collaboration is a first in Europe where a university hospital produces GMP grade prophylactic […]

October 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 22 Sep 2022

Study data for glioblastoma treatment confirms safety and tolerability profile

The final results of a phase 1/2 study of a therapy in recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have been reported by Australian-based Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. The therapy, TLX101 (4-L-[ 131I] iodo-phenylalanine, or 131I-IPA) administered with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and the primary objective was to evaluate and test the safety and tolerability profile of the intravenous therapy […]

September 22, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 12 Sep 2022

PDC*line Pharma presents results from phase I/II trial

PDC*line Pharma, a clinical stage biotech company developing a new class of potent and scalable active immunotherapies for cancers, has revealed the first results of its PDC-LUNG-101 phase I/II clinical trial with PDC*lung01. PDC*lung01 is the company’s therapeutic off-the shelf cancer vaccine candidate for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The preliminary data was presented at […]

September 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 7 Sep 2022

The biggest private biotech investments in August 2022

The healthcare-focused companies Orna Therapeutics, F2G and Sironax bagged the biggest biotech investments in August 2022, with mRNA vaccines, genomics and fermentation technology attracting big funding rounds. As many took a well-deserved vacation in the month of August 2022, the world of biotech remained busy with fundraising. Sit back and browse our lists of the […]

September 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 25 Aug 2022

KU Leuven spin-off AstriVax raises €30M for vaccine platform – first stop, yellow fever

A Belgian university spinoff has generated the biggest seed capital financing in the institution’s history. Closing with €30 million ($30 million), AstriVax will draw on technology developed at the KU Leuven Rega Institute to develop novel vaccines that are easy to produce, have reduced cold chain requirements, and offer broad and long-lasting protection against various […]

August 25, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Optics11 Life receives €5 million in funding for drug development

News and Trends 24 Aug 2022

Millions in funding and new board members for Belgian mRNA company

The mRNA technologies company eTheRNA has raised €39 million ($38.7 million) in series B2 financing. Belgium-based eTheRNA will use the money to expand investment in its integrated mRNA technology platform and further pursue its new initiatives for a partnership-driven business strategy. The round was led by Novalis LifeSciences LLC with participation from Professor Kenneth Chien, […]

August 24, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Sequana Medical has positive results for heart failure therapy drug

BioSenic’s autoimmune disease platform adapting to meet unmet medical needs

Novadip Biosciences raises €40M for bone defect treatments

Beyond Biotech podcast 20: BioWin, eTherapeutics, CMT Research Foundation

Domain Therapeutics to start clinical trials of solid tumor treatment

Biocartis starts European commercialization of liver cancer test

Ziphius and UZ Ghent collaborating on manufacture of saRNA-based vaccines

Study data for glioblastoma treatment confirms safety and tolerability profile

PDC*line Pharma presents results from phase I/II trial

The biggest private biotech investments in August 2022

KU Leuven spin-off AstriVax raises €30M for vaccine platform – first stop, yellow fever

Millions in funding and new board members for Belgian mRNA company

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