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Best in Biotech 26 Dec 2017

Interviews, Reviews and Tops: Our Best Biotech Articles from 2017

We love hearing from our readers, and we listen to what they like! Here are the long reads from our best biotech articles of 2017. We gave you a list of books to read this holiday season, but do you need something lighter for the post-Christmas daze? We’ve collected our most popular long articles of […]

December 26, 2017 - 6 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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Interview 20 Sep 2017

A Peek Inside Europe’s Best Incubator: A Conversation with Babraham’s Chief Executive

Derek Jones is at the helm of Babraham Bioscience Technologies. I caught up with him to talk about strategies for biotech startups. Confusion is common when it comes to navigating the various organizing entities of Babraham, a life science campus just a few kilometers southeast of Cambridge. It’s famously home to a number of standout […]

September 20, 2017 - 9 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 26 Jun 2017

Videos: Who won the Refresh Early-Stage Startup Battle? The Bonsai goes to…

As you might have read in our recap, we had not one but two startup battles for the last edition of Refresh. Watch the companies’ pitches below! Up first was Cambridge Cancer Genomics, which uses AI to design personalised DNA-based tests to help clinicians to better track their patients’ responses to cancer drugs in order to make […]

June 26, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 6 Jun 2017

Imperial College Moves its Startup Incubator to a Bigger Facility in West London

Last Friday, the Duke of York opened Imperial’s newest facilities in the White City campus, where the university is relocating its startup incubator. Imperial College’s startup incubator, previously located at Imperial’s South Kensington campus, just got a significant upgrade with brand new facilities that opened last week in Imperial College’s White City campus. The new space, aptly renamed the White City […]

June 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 13 Apr 2017

Coming from Behind: How Italy is Revamping its Biotech Industry

Italy’s biotech industry lags behind in Europe, but the situation is starting to change with coordinated efforts in research, finance and organization. While ‘European biotech’ brings to mind France, Germany and the UK, Italy is cultivating its own thriving ecosystem. It claims internationally renowned scientific research institutions, including the University of Perugia and the San Raffaele […]

April 13, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

In Depth 23 Aug 2016

5 Expert Tips to Success When Building a Biotech Startup

Succeeding as an entrepreneur is tough, you will have to deal with failure and learn from it along the way. Many new biotech startups face similar problems during their early steps, here are some expert tips on how to avoid them. Last week, I had the opportunity to meet Mark Hammond and Dominic Falcao, who […]

August 23, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 12 Apr 2016

What sort of Biotech Startups are coming out of Italy at the moment?

BioUpper in Milan has launched the first acceleration platform for new entrepreneurs in the field of biotech and Medicine. Here are 3 of the winners awarded €50,000 each in funding. The project is funded by Novartis and Fondazione Cariplo – the Italian cultural and Scientific grant foundation now worth over €8Bn. The aim of the project is to enhance promising projects and finance […]

April 12, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 21 Mar 2016

Ferment the Next Bio-Revolution with IndieBio Accelerator

IndieBio is an accelerator program for new ideas in Synthetic Biology – to transform them into startups during a Summer in Ireland. The potential of Synthetic Biology ranges from biofuels to perfumes to healthcare – and it will be at the forefront of the biotechnological revolution. The concept is already implemented by big Biotechs (with a big presence in France) […]

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

News and Trends 18 Nov 2015

Biotech ‘al dente’ – Italy Inaugurates its First Biotech Accelerator

Sofinnova Partners, one of the leading European venture capital firms has helped launch the country’s first ever Biotech accelerator – BiovelocITA. This brand new enterprise intends to boost the Italian biotech market to boom to the same degree it has in countries like Germany and France. Milan launches BiovelocITA, the first Italian accelerator dedicated to […]

November 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 3 Sep 2015

Startups receive €25K investment as part of Merck’s brand new Accelerator Program

Merck – the German healthcare company has announced the 3 start-ups it plans to adopt into its in-house accelerator program. Two of the participants focus on e-health, while the third, Sulfotools, has developed a cleaner and cheaper method of solid-phase protein synthesis (SPPS). Merck has awarded these start-ups with a €25K investment as a ‘silent’ investor as […]

September 3, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Jun 2015

GSK’s undercover incubator baked three new Biotechs

The partnership between GlaxoSmithKline and Avalon Ventures launched three early-stage life science companies. Adrenergics, CadheRx Therapeutics and Calporta Therapeutics will each receive up to €8.9M in a Series A financing, aside from support from their two godfathers. Three new companies were launched today as a result of Avalon’s fruitful collaboration with GSK. The partnership, which […]

June 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 3 Jun 2015

Keregen: Winner of the world’s largest Biotech Start-up Accelerator!

OneStart 2015, the world’s largest life sciences and health care startup accelerator program has just rewarded Keregen from the UK with €137.8K (£100K) and Ligadon with €134.6K ($150K) for respectively winning OneStart Europe and OneStart Americas. So, who is this promising European upcomer? Keregen, based in London, develops first-in-class medicines for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative […]

June 3, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexandre Lowrey

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