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A Cure for Cancer? How CAR-T Cell Therapy is Revolutionizing Oncology

CAR-T therapy has been hailed as a cure for cancer, but what really is this ‘miraculous technology’ and what can we actually expect from it? The field of immuno-oncology is booming with billions of euros in investment. The ability to rewire our own immune system to fight cancer has certainly created huge expectations. After the […]

October 11, 2021 - 10 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 28 Aug 2019

Celgene and Immatics Sign Deal Worth Over €1.35B to Develop Cancer Immunotherapies

The US company Celgene has obtained options to three cancer immunotherapy programs from the German biotech Immatics in a deal worth more than €1.35B ($1.5B). Immatics is to receive an upfront payment of €67.5M ($75M), along with up to €455M ($505M) in developmental milestones and royalties for each immunotherapy program. In each program, Immatics will […]

August 28, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 21 Mar 2019

Celgene and Exscientia Sign the Largest Deal in AI for Drug Discovery

In a deal with €22M paid upfront and undisclosed “substantial milestones and royalties,” Exscientia will use its artificial intelligence technology to help Celgene speed up the discovery of drug candidates for cancer and autoimmune diseases. “It is the largest AI drug discovery deal done in the industry to date,” said Andrew Hopkins, CEO of Oxford-based […]

March 21, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 25 Jan 2019

Swiss-Italian Biotech Bags Antibody Deals with Three Big Pharma

The Swiss-Italian company Philogen has announced three different partnerships with Novartis, Celgene, and Janssen to develop new forms of immunotherapy and small molecule drugs. Philogen develops immunocytokines, which are antibodies that are fused with proteins that modify the immune system to fight diseases such as cancer. For example, this treatment can bind to tumors and activate […]

January 25, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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 16 Oct 2017

Interview: On the Future of iPS Cells and why Partnering is so Important in this Field

In our first part of the interview with Dr David Hallett, Executive Vice President at Evotec, we discussed the uniqueness of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS Cells), novel developments occurring in iPS Cell research, and the challenges researchers face. Let us have a short recap of what we have learned so far: iPS Cells were […]

October 16, 2017 - 9 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 19 Dec 2016

Evotec closes the year partnering with Celgene to treat Alzheimer’s

Evotec is closing a fantastic financial year with another top-level partnership; Celgene has decided to trust in its iPSC platform to develop drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. Evotec is a successful drug discovery CRO based in Germany that has managed to sign partnerships with some of the biggest names in Biotech. In addition to previous deals with Bayer, Merck, […]

December 19, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 30 Jun 2016

11 Hot Companies to Meet this Year at BioSpain

Spain has a lot of great stuff – paella, tapas, siesta! But how is Spanish biotech doing? With BioSpain 2016 approaching, we took a look at some of the most important biotechs operating in Spain and attending the event. Bonus: here is a promotional code to have a discount of 10% on your ticket BIO2016 As one […]

June 30, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 4 Nov 2015

Transformational deals that shaped the Biotech industry in 2015 #BIO-Europe 2015

The Biotech industry relies a lot on partnering and deals. And 2015 has already been an active year. This was the theme of the second keynote conference from BIO-Europe 2015. It gathered four high-level speakers: The roundtable started with a summary of each companies’ activity in deals. Everyone has been busy, but Celgene seemed to […]

November 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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A Cure for Cancer? How CAR-T Cell Therapy is Revolutionizing Oncology

Celgene and Immatics Sign Deal Worth Over €1.35B to Develop Cancer Immunotherapies

Celgene and Exscientia Sign the Largest Deal in AI for Drug Discovery

Swiss-Italian Biotech Bags Antibody Deals with Three Big Pharma

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

Interview: On the Future of iPS Cells and why Partnering is so Important in this Field

Evotec closes the year partnering with Celgene to treat Alzheimer’s

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Transformational deals that shaped the Biotech industry in 2015 #BIO-Europe 2015

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