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News and Trends 1 Jul 2015

mRNA Therapies: CureVac Outperformed the Money Magnet Moderna

Everybody has already heard about Boston-based Moderna Therapeutics, the most highly valued venture-backed private Biotech, but CureVac, its German competitor, remains much more understated. This could rapidly change as CureVac just demonstrated that its technology beats Moderna’s. mRNA technologies could theoretically disrupt the whole drug industry. Imagine that you can directly inject mRNA into patients to make them produce their own therapeutic proteins. Unfortunately, […]

July 1, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 30 Jun 2015

Oldest French Biotech Transgene is One Step Closer to Bankruptcy

Transgene, the oldest French Biotech company announced just yesterday that it will cut 120 jobs on its current 300 employees. The company will shut down its manufacturing facility in order to focus on the Research and Development of its therapeutic vaccine candidates. Wise move or final last words? Back in 1976, Robert Swanson and Herbert Boyer founded […]

June 30, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 29 Jun 2015

6 Things the Digital Revolution already Disrupted in the Biotech Industry

2 weeks ago, I was at NOAH15 in Berlin, one of the biggest European events on Digital, gathering key opinion leaders such as Eric Schmidt from Google or Ariana Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post. They all talked about the impact of the recent digital wave, internet and the post-pc area in different industries. Biotech […]

June 29, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 25 Jun 2015

BioNTech and Siemens to build a new Production plant for Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Personalized medicine is the next thing and immunotherapy expert BioNTech is determined to build its place in this competitive field. With this purpose in mind, the German biotech will partner with Siemens to build a new production plant for personalized cancer vaccines. Founded in 2008, the BioNTech Group has become one of the fastest-growing biotechnology […]

June 25, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 19 Jun 2015

Servier disburses €114 Million for Taiho’s Colorectal Cancer treatment

Servier is fattening up its oncology assests with the acquisition of Taiho Pharmaceutical’s treatment of refractory mestatic colorectal cancer. The French laboratories will commercialize the molecule in Europe and other countries. Taiho Pharmaceutical and Servier come to an agreement for the development and commercialization of TAS-102 in Europe. The drug is an oral combination anticancer drug […]

June 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 17 Jun 2015

Innovate UK accelerates Sareum’s fight against Leukemia

Innovate UK, the country’s innovation agency, keeps promoting technology in the British islands. The latest beneficiary is Sareum, a cancer specialist biotech with a strong autoimmune disease programme. The company received €195.5k to fight an early-age type of leukaemia. T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia is a rare type of leukaemia that most often occurs in late […]

June 17, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 15 Jun 2015

Jonhson&Jonhson hurries up Genmab’s myeloma treatment

Genmab and its partner Jonhson&Jonhson, through its subsidiary Janssen Biotech, are trying to speed up daratumumab. The companies initiated a rolling submission for the candidate that targets multiple myeloma. The German-American partnership is trying to accelerate the arrival of daratumumab to the market, only just after the presentation of optimistic results of MOR202’s phase I/IIa. […]

June 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Jun 2015

Polaris, a new Nordic leader in Immuno-Oncology

Immuno-oncology is a busy market to take on by yourself due to the existing fierce competition. Targovax and Oncos Therapeutics have decided to merge to earn a spot in the field. Polaris, the combined business, contemplates a private placement of around €15M to fund the freshly baked company. Finland and Norway never were this close as Oncos […]

June 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 10 Jun 2015

French collaboration to develop Oncology-targeted Therapy

PEP-Therapy and CleveXel Pharma will co-develop targeted therapy in oncology. The product is based on an innovative technology involving bi-functional peptides that penetrate cells, and specifically block pathological mechanisms without affecting physiological mechanisms. The drug candidate is a cell-penetrating peptide that targets an interaction between two intracellular proteins, Caspase-9 and PP2A. It has been validated […]

June 10, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 5 Jun 2015

NuCana’s potent anti-cancer completed Phase I/II

Good news just keeps on coming from ASCO Annual Meeting. Edinburgh-based NuCana presented in two abstracts the last data from Acelarin, the company’s first anti-cancer agent, produced on its ProTide developing platform. ProTides are NuCana’s new class of anti-cancer agents, which are specifically designed to overcome key cancer resistance mechanisms that severely limit the action […]

June 5, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 4 Jun 2015

MorphoSys is safe and sound after the promising results of Celgene’s dumped project

MorphoSys has presented at ASCO optimistic results of MOR202’s phase I/IIa study, a candidate treatment against multiple myeloma. The project was doubted after Celgene’s abandon, but now, safety and efficacy data have shown that there is nothing to worry about. MOR202 is a fully human monoclonal HuCAL antibody targeting CD38, a highly expressed and validated target […]

June 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 4 Jun 2015

[Update] AstraZeneca to buy a CAR-T expert?

[Update] Bloomberg announced that they make wrong conclusions from their discussion with AstraZeneca’s CEO Pascal Soriot. The CEO was not talking about the specific acquisition of Juno Therapeutics but about a potential acquisition of a CAR-T expert. Juno’s shares rose as much as 15.8 % just after the rumor was released by Bloomerg. Here is the first version […]

June 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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mRNA Therapies: CureVac Outperformed the Money Magnet Moderna

Oldest French Biotech Transgene is One Step Closer to Bankruptcy

6 Things the Digital Revolution already Disrupted in the Biotech Industry

BioNTech and Siemens to build a new Production plant for Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Servier disburses €114 Million for Taiho’s Colorectal Cancer treatment

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