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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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

June 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 3 Jun 2015

Erytech successfully completed its Phase III to ‘starve’ cancer cells to death

Erytech Pharma reported optimistic Phase III results of its pivotal program with GRASPA, an original treatment that targets cancer cells…

June 3, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 2 Jun 2015

Genticel aims to prevent Cancer caused by the Human Papillomavirus

Genticel is a step closer to prevent cancer caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). The French biotech announced positive results…

June 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 2 Jun 2015

Immuno-oncology race gets bloodier: BMS is suing its former executive now working for AstraZeneca

Immuno-oncology has gone from a competition to a battlefield. Bristol-Meyer Squibb launched a lawsuit against David Berman, a former researcher…

June 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 1 Jun 2015

DNA Therapeutics presents positive results for its breakthrough Advanced Cancer Therapy

ASCO Annual Meeting keeps bringing positive results of European companies that cross the ocean to present their clinical trial outcomes.…

June 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 1 Jun 2015

Eisai receives Europe’s OK for its Thyroid Cancer treatment

Lenvatinib, Eisai’s treatment of thyroid cancer, has received the marketing authorization of the European Commission. The Japanese company is increasing…

June 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 31 May 2015

AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly Combine their Innovative Drugs for Cancer Treatment

The big pharma companies Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca will combine two of their cancer drugs to make the perfect cocktail…

May 31, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 31 May 2015

Who are the European Cancer Champions?

Cancer makes no difference… Children, elderly, healthy, disabled, black, white, etc… the disease randomly selects its targets. One of…

May 31, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexandre Lowrey

News and Trends 25 May 2015

Invectys focuses on Telomers to develop a Universal Cancer Vaccine

French startup Invectys believes to have found the solution to cancer: one vaccine to cure them all! By targeting telomerase, this new immunotherapy…

May 25, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 22 May 2015

Fluorescent antibodies to guide Cancer surgery

French oncologist SurgiMab has started a first-in-human phase I study for its molecule SGM-101 launched at the Montpellier Cancer Institute. SurgiMab is developing…

May 22, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme