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News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

Immunocore has published key results for its new preclinical candidate for HIV, ImmTAV. This TCR-based immunotherapy has succeeded in targeting T-cells where HIV infection often ‘hides’ from drugs. Just after presenting promising results from its leading candidate at ASCO 2016 (read our coverage here), Immunocore is making headlines in another area – infectious disease. The […]

June 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 10 Jun 2016

CRISPR Thx in yet another Collaboration, this time for Muscle Dystrophy

CRISPR Therapeutics has struck a deal with Anagenesis Biotechnologies, which has key technology for muscle stem cells. Together, they will tackle muscle disorders – including the rare disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). CRISPR Therapeutics (Basel, Switzerland) is the European champion of gene editing for health applications, a field that promises to revolutionize therapies – even if […]

June 10, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 9 Jun 2016

Brain Cell Transplant could help with incurable Neurodegenerative Disease

Researchers from Copenhagen and the US have succeeded in slowing the progression of Huntington’s disease in mice with a transplant of healthy human brain cells. This provides a new route to tackle this incurable fatal disease. Cell therapies are promising for some of the most serious diseases, from their role in cancer treatment (one of the […]

June 9, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 19 May 2016

Bone Therapeutics switches to allogeneic for Universal Bone Cell Therapy

Bone Therapeutics is moving forward with a new phase II trial targeting severe osteroporosis – but this time with its allogeneic bone cell therapy (ALLOB). This type of therapy is easier to administrate, and could reach more patients in need. Bone Therapeutics is based in Gosselies (Belgium) and is developing cell therapies to treat conditions […]

May 19, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 8 Apr 2016

Biotech of the Week: Activartis Immuno-Oncology in Vienna

This week, we leave Milan and head once again towards the East. Vienna: Austria’s palatial and stunning capital city is our destination, and is also where our Biotech of the week, Activartis, is located. City: Vienna (Austria) Founded: 2003 Employees: 11 – 50 (as of 12/2015) Financial Data: N/A CEO: Thomas Felzmann Mission: Currently in phase II clinical […]

April 8, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 30 Mar 2016

Dutch Startup gets €7M for New Cancer Immunotherapy Platform

Gadeta has raised €7M in a series A round, which will fuel the clinical development of its novel TCR platform, starting with a leukemia cell therapy trial. Gadeta is a spin-out of immuno-oncology research at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht). It was founded in 2015 by the researchers and Utrecht Holdings, the technology transfer […]

March 30, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 17 Mar 2016

GSK partners to Scale Manufacturing of CAR-T Therapies

Production of CAR-T therapies seems to be one of the biggest challenge of this promising technology. Miltenyi Biotec (Germany) and GSK have entered a new partnership to combine the clinical development of cell and gene therapies with manufacturing expertise. Milteniy is a German company of 1600 employees developing products for biomedical research and cellular therapy. It’s not the first […]

March 17, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 18 Feb 2016

This Bone Cell Therapy Could Make it to a Shelf Near You

Bone Therapeutics (Belgium) is almost finished with the phase IIa trial for a Spinal cell therapy. The 12 people treated for degenerative bone conditions show no complications – a gold star for the safety check of this off-the-shelf product. This Belgian biotech is developing two different osteoblastic cell therapies, PREOB and ALLOB, to treat a variety of […]

February 18, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 27 Jan 2016

New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas

AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and the 3 world-leading universities (Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Cambridge) have joined forces to found the ‘Apollo’ Bridge. This pioneering new joint venture, the Apollo Therapeutics Fund, will support the translation of ground-breaking academic science from within these universities into innovative new medicines for […]

January 27, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 9 Dec 2015

Squeezing Cells: A Revolutionary Cancer Drug Delivery Platform for €455M?

The MIT spin-off SQZ Biotech has an invention (Cell SQueeZe) which could make vector drug delivery in Cancer a thing of the past… Roche thinks so too, and has now acquired this small biotech for €455M upfront. MIT Professors Klavs Jensen, Robert Langer and PhD Student Armon Sharei were focused on developing a more effective system for […]

December 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 27 Nov 2015

Could this new TCR Lung Cancer Trial Save Adaptimmune from a Volatile Stock Situation?

Adaptimmune has initiated a phase I/II safety and tolerability study of its affinity enhanced T-cell therapy targeting the NY-ESO-1 cancer antigen in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Adaptimmune is developing the affinity enhanced T-cell therapy targeting the NY-ESO-1 antigen under a collaboration agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Located in Oxford (UK) this clinical stage […]

November 27, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Nov 2015

“The Next Generation of Biologicals will be Cell-based”

That’s what Zami Aberman, CEO of one of the world-leading cell-therapy company Pluristem told me during our lunch at Berlin this week. An enthusiastic statement for a sector that could indeed be the next blockbuster after the monoclonal antibodies. Pluristem is an Israel based Biotech company developing off-the-shelf cell therapies for a variety of human diseases. What makes […]

November 19, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

CRISPR Thx in yet another Collaboration, this time for Muscle Dystrophy

Brain Cell Transplant could help with incurable Neurodegenerative Disease

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Biotech of the Week: Activartis Immuno-Oncology in Vienna

Dutch Startup gets €7M for New Cancer Immunotherapy Platform

GSK partners to Scale Manufacturing of CAR-T Therapies

This Bone Cell Therapy Could Make it to a Shelf Near You

New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas

Squeezing Cells: A Revolutionary Cancer Drug Delivery Platform for €455M?

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