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News and Trends 23 Jan 2018

Another Huge Acquisition Sees CAR-T Stocks Jump – Except for Celyad

Most CAR-T stocks rose on the news that Big Biotech Celgene has plans to acquire Juno: Cellectis rides the wave but Celyad misses it. Shortly after the mega-acquisition of Kite by Gilead, the second prettiest girl at the CAR-T party, Juno Therapeutics, has accepted the advances of Celgene in a $9Bn (€7.4Bn) acquisition. This represents a bullish […]

January 23, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 18 Jan 2018

France Gets Ready to Test CAR-Treg Cells to Avoid Transplant Rejection

TxCell has received a €1.2 loan from Bpifrance to complete preclinical trials with its CAR-Treg technology for transplant rejection and start human testing. French biotech TxCell is finalizing the preparations to take its first cell therapy to clinical trials. The treatment, called HLA-A2 CAR-Treg, is intended for the prevention of chronic rejection after organ transplantation. […]

January 18, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 4 Jan 2018

German Biotech Raises Record $270M Series A for Individualized Cancer Therapies

BioNTech will dedicate its huge fundraising to develop personalized cancer immunotherapies using CAR-T, TCR and mRNA technologies. BioNTech is kicking off the new year with great news. The company has closed its Series A with $270M (€225M) — a record amount in Germany for such an early funding round. The fundraising was led by the […]

January 4, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Best in Biotech 27 Dec 2017

The Biggest Biotech News of 2017: What Happened This Year?

Still catching up on news? We’ve picked out the most exciting things that happened besides clinical results and finance. Here’s the biggest biotech news of 2017. We’ve been recapping the year with the most stellar biotechs, most heartening clinical successes and most disappointing failures in biotech. But what else happened this year? There’s more news […]

December 27, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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

News and Trends 20 Dec 2017

How to Deal with Regulations to Get Approval for CAR-T Cells

The biotech industry is diving into the field of highly individualized gene and cell therapy products. The first CAR-T therapy has just been approved in the US and other breakthrough technologies like mRNA and CRISPR have a foot in the door. But getting to the market is not straightforward, not only for developers but also for […]

December 20, 2017 - 8 minutesmins - By Timothé Cynober

Best in Biotech 18 Dec 2017

Smile! Here are the 12 Biggest Biotech Clinical Successes of 2017

Now that we’ve got the bad news out of the way, we’re here to spread some Christmas cheer with the biggest clinical successes in biotech over the past 12 months. It’s unlikely that one whole year will ever pass without a single hiccup, especially in a field as complex as biotech. For that reason, we […]

December 18, 2017 - 9 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 13 Dec 2017

Off-the-Shelf CAR-T Cells Struggle to Improve Cancer Treatment

Data presented at ASH 2017 shows that Servier and Pfizer’s UCART19, an allogeneic CAR-T therapy originally developed by Cellectis, might struggle to outperform autologous CAR-T cells. CAR-T cell therapy has proved to be effective at treating cancer in patients for whom scarce hope was left. Yet pricing is still a big concern. Companies like Cellectis are trying […]

December 13, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 7 Dec 2017

Scottish Biotech and Bluebird Bio to Develop Next Generation CAR-T Cells

TC Biopharm has scored a deal with bluebird bio for the development of the next generation of CAR-T cells, a technology giving new hope to cancer patients. With the first two CAR-T therapies now in the market, the way we treat cancer is changing. This technology has shown to be effective in a high percentage of patients […]

December 7, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Interview 4 Dec 2017

Meet the CEO Leading Italy’s Charge to Become a Major Biotech Player

Riccardo Palmisano is CEO of MolMed, the most important Italian biotech, which focuses on gene and cell therapies. We chatted about the company, which hopes to give the cancer therapies field a boost. You may have come across MolMed before, possibly in our recent piece on the top biotechs in Milan. The company was founded […]

December 4, 2017 - 7 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 14 Nov 2017

This British Biotech Could Treat T-Cell Lymphoma without Leaving the Body Unprotected

Autolus has revealed a new strategy to treat T-cell lymphoma without harming healthy, protective T cells. The therapy is expected to start human tests soon. T-cell lymphoma is a form of cancer that affects the cells responsible for protecting our body against infections. Unlike it’s done with cancer types that affect other blood cells, it’s […]

November 14, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 19 Oct 2017

The FDA Approves a Second CAR-T Therapy, Cheaper than Novartis’

Gilead’s CAR-T cell therapy Yescarta has been approved by the FDA, making it the first competitor for Novartis’ CAR-T Kymriah. Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel, or axi-cel for short) has become the second CAR-T therapy to be approved in the US. The FDA has authorized its use to treat aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in patients for whom at least two […]

October 19, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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Another Huge Acquisition Sees CAR-T Stocks Jump – Except for Celyad

France Gets Ready to Test CAR-Treg Cells to Avoid Transplant Rejection

German Biotech Raises Record $270M Series A for Individualized Cancer Therapies

The Biggest Biotech News of 2017: What Happened This Year?

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

How to Deal with Regulations to Get Approval for CAR-T Cells

Smile! Here are the 12 Biggest Biotech Clinical Successes of 2017

Off-the-Shelf CAR-T Cells Struggle to Improve Cancer Treatment

Scottish Biotech and Bluebird Bio to Develop Next Generation CAR-T Cells

Meet the CEO Leading Italy’s Charge to Become a Major Biotech Player

This British Biotech Could Treat T-Cell Lymphoma without Leaving the Body Unprotected

The FDA Approves a Second CAR-T Therapy, Cheaper than Novartis’

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