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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 25 Jan 2016

Nature’s Machines: Biohacking Evolution to Destroy Pollutants

The Concept of artificially ‘Driving Evolution’ is as contagiously controversial as it is captivating for Biotechs, DIY Biologists and iGEM teams alike. How can we harness an ‘Evolution Machine’ for the Greener Good and ‘create’ microbes to break down pollutants? At the Digital Biology (“Do it Together”) Conference last week (a European consortium for DIY Biologists and […]

January 25, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 21 Jan 2016

Mologen Joins the Rapidly Growing List of EU Partners with the No#1 US Cancer Hospital

MD Anderson (US) and the Berlin Biotech Mologen (Germany) have now partnered on for an Immuno-Oncology program fighting colorectal and small-cell lung carcinoma. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is ‘One of the world’s most respected centres‘ devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education and prevention. Having partnered with various European research institutions, medical centres […]

January 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 20 Jan 2016

Swiss Biotech Merger: Bones + Oncology + Vaccines?

Kuros Biosurgery in Zürich (Switzerland), the bone remodelling biotech for trauma patients, today officially acquired Cytos Biotechnology in Schlieren, the two of which are now to be rebranded ‘Kuros Biosciences’ in a Swiss Stock Exchange merger. Kuros is developing innovative products for tissue repair and regeneration. The company is a spin-off of the Swiss Federal […]

January 20, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Jan 2016

Top 8 Deadliest Cancers and their Potential Cures

With more than 200 types of cancer, the possibility of developing a Universal Cure is in reality, a myth. However, the fight against the World’s Deadliest Cancers is far from being lost…and there lies hope in the Biotech Industry. Simply by having a quick look through our articles, we can easily confirm that cancer is […]

January 19, 2016 - 7 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Jan 2016

Biotech of the week: Kiadis Pharma, Immuno-therapy made in Amsterdam

This week we say ‘auf Wiedersehen’ to Germany and head West to the Netherlands and it’s capital city, Amsterdam. This city really does have it all, whether you’re looking for history, architecture or something more indulgent… it is also the location of our biotech of the week: Kiadis Pharma City: Amsterdam, Netherlands Founded: 1997 Employees: 23 (as of 12/2015) […]

January 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 13 Jan 2016

UK Biotech starts 2016 by signing a (Massive?) Immuno-Oncology Deal with AbbVie

This year has started with a rush of deals for many Biotechs. F-Star another such company, now signing up for an Immuno-Oncology deal with AbbVie using Bispecific Antibodies. Financial terms were not disclosed but in regards to the hype of the Immuno-Oncology field, it could be pretty high. F-Star is a Cambridge company based at the Babraham […]

January 13, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 12 Jan 2016

Cellectis has Discovered an ‘On-Switch’ to Make CAR-T Safer and Better Controlled

Cellectis researchers have managed to come up with a new CAR architecture with a small-molecule triggered ‘on-switch’, permitting better control and safety in CAR T-cell therapy, as published in Nature. As we discussed during our interview with Andre Choulika, CEO of Cellectis, last month, one major drawback to CAR-T treatment for cancer is the lack of […]

January 12, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

TROD’s MedTech for Prostate Cancer Kills Tumor Cells with Radio Waves

TROD Medical, the medical device company developing tools for focal ablation, today announced that it has received CE Mark Approval for its Encage device. Encage is a breakthrough in treatment for prostate cancer, one of the most common soft tissue cancers in the world with around 240,000 new cases every year in the US alone. […]

January 11, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

A French Biotech is Monopolising Immuno-Oncology with Big Euro Deals

Marseille’s Innate Pharma is building an Immuno-Oncology Monopoly, deal by deal. Selling to the French Pharma Giant, Sanofi, this 112 employee biotech has used their Sanofi-income to buy up Lyon-based Orega Biotech‘s checkpoint inhibitor program. Sanofi and Innate Pharma will work together on the generation and evaluation of up to two bispecific NK cell engagers, […]

January 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

How about the $100M Holy ‘GRAIL’ in Cancer Diagnostics? A Universal Test Start-up Faces German Competition

Illumina, the €22Bn Market cap NGS specialist, and Bill Gates pooled a $100M to fund the startup, ‘Grail’, which will be used to find a universal cancer detection test for Doctors. The startup will be based in San Francisco (US) with additional financial backing to include Bill Gates amongst others. The tests in question are […]

January 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

Transgene shares jump 50% in 2 days After Announcing Phase III Trial for Liver Cancer

This multinational Phase III Trial for an Oncolytic Immunotherapy for Advanced Liver Cancer could be what really defines French Transgene as the underdog which finally sprang to fame. Transgene, in Strasbourg, was founded in 1979, as France’s oldest Biotech (only 3 years after Genentech was born on the other side of the Atlantic). However, unlike Genentech, […]

January 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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

Nature’s Machines: Biohacking Evolution to Destroy Pollutants

Mologen Joins the Rapidly Growing List of EU Partners with the No#1 US Cancer Hospital

Swiss Biotech Merger: Bones + Oncology + Vaccines?

Top 8 Deadliest Cancers and their Potential Cures

Biotech of the week: Kiadis Pharma, Immuno-therapy made in Amsterdam

UK Biotech starts 2016 by signing a (Massive?) Immuno-Oncology Deal with AbbVie

Cellectis has Discovered an ‘On-Switch’ to Make CAR-T Safer and Better Controlled

TROD’s MedTech for Prostate Cancer Kills Tumor Cells with Radio Waves

A French Biotech is Monopolising Immuno-Oncology with Big Euro Deals

How about the $100M Holy ‘GRAIL’ in Cancer Diagnostics? A Universal Test Start-up Faces German Competition

Transgene shares jump 50% in 2 days After Announcing Phase III Trial for Liver Cancer

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