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News and Trends 14 Nov 2015

What happened this week? mRNA Therapies, TCR & Algae Beer

Monday: Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer Tuesday: What the FUGT? We tried the Algae Bar Beer for the TransArt Fest in Copenhagen! Wednesday: Using Algae and NanoTech to Kill Cancer: An Australian-German Collaboration Thursday (two interviews): Interview: The ‘RNA’ People’s Pioneering Strategy to get mRNA Therapies onto the Market EU’s Largest Private […]

November 14, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 9 Nov 2015

Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer

Cell-based Immune-oncology therapies continue to deliver amazing results. After Cellectis wondersaving from last week, Oxford’s Adaptimmune has some surprisingly good results too. Adaptimmune is a British, Oxford-based immuno-oncolgy company. It held a massive IPO last year, raising up to €150M on the NASDAQ, and its CEO was interviewed by BIO (video here) where he seemed […]

November 9, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 4 Nov 2015

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

Sanofi is now the latest Biotech lining up to partner with BioNTech from Mainz (Germany), for license of their mRNA Immuno-oncology platform in a€1.37Bn long-term development deal. Novel mRNA targets in Immuno-onology is a top-shelf cancer R&D area, with Germany’s CureVac also attracting another €100M yesterday for their mRNA platform (which targets lung and prostate […]

November 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 16 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

This week, we’re leaving Paris and heading East to a city that’s 9 times bigger than the capital of France, it’s also the city we all call home here at Labiotech, Berlin. When someone thinks of Berlin, they think of the wall, the Fernsehturm (television tower) and its amazing nightlife (I can personally agree with this 😉 […]

October 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

Louvain-la-Neuve: A Belgian temple for success in cell therapy

Artificial three-dimensional tissues to regenerate bones and soft tissues: Novadip Biosciences’ dream is a step closer to reality after successfully closing a €28M Series A round. The spin-off of Université Catholique de Louvain coexists with Celyad and Promethera in a biotech cluster where cell therapy is the key protagonist. The financing round, led by New […]

September 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 22 Jul 2015

Adaptimmune’s TCR Therapy Proves its Superiority over its Immuno-oncology Competitors

Adaptimmune Therapeutics, an oxford-based company focusing on the use of T-cell therapies to treat cancer, announced today that data from its Phase I/II study in patients with multiple myeloma has been published in Nature Medicine. This is the first report on TCR engineered T-cell therapy that shows durable persistence in patients! After its successful intoduction on […]

July 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 22 Jun 2015

Medigene plans to fund its T-cell program with €50 Millions

Munich-based Medigene is planning to raise cash through existing shareholders’ investments. The company targets up to €50M to propel its immune-oncology program with T-Cell Receptors and Dendritic Cells vaccines assets. Medigene plans a cash capital increase with subscription rights for existing shareholders by offering a new batch of shares. The company is going to present […]

June 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 24 May 2015

Pluristem accelerates its Cell Therapy program thanks to the EMA

Pluristem Therapeutics has good reasons to celebrate: its PLX cell program in critical limb ischemia is taking the fast line to the market. The program is the first to have been selected for the European Medicines Agency’s Adaptive Pathways pilot project, which aims at accelerating the access for patients to new medicines. The purpose of Europe’s Adaptive Pathways is […]

May 24, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 May 2015

[UPDATE] Adaptimmune raised €156.7M in its IPO

Oxford-based Adaptimmune has launched its IPO on NASDAQ, where the immunotherapist plans to raise about €156.7M. The company is focused on novel cancer immunotherapy products based on T-cell receptors. [UPDATE]: The company successfully raised the quantity expected. Adaptimmune is focused on the use of T-cell therapy to treat cancer. It aims to utilise the body’s own machinery, T […]

May 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 May 2015

US-based Juno Therapeutics purchased a German biotech

Juno Therapeutics has purchased Stage Cell Therapeutics, a privately held biotechnology company, based in Munich and Göttingen, Germany. The acquired technologies will support the development of the next generation CAR-T and TCR-T products, bringing Juno one step closer to beating cancer. The transaction further underlines Juno’s strategy of becoming a world leader in process development and in […]

May 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 24 Jan 2015

Important Bilateral Academic Agreement for the Future of iPS Cell Therapy

The UK Cell Therapy programme Catapult, which is focused on the development of the UK cell therapy industry to increase the nation’s health and wealth, has signed a patent licence agreement with iPS Academia Japan. It represents a pivotal step in the development of the UK’s GMP induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell bank. Under the […]

January 24, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Nov 2014

Promethera Biosciences Raised €25,33M to Treat Liver Diseases

Promethera Biosciences, a Belgian biotechnology company developing Promethera HepaStem, a cell-based therapy for the treatment of in-born errors of metabolism and acquired liver diseases, raised 25,33 million euros. The major innovation of Promethera HepaStem is based on Heterologous Human Adult Liver Progenitor Cells (HHALPC). It is a potential to treat a wide variety of congenital […]

November 25, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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What happened this week? mRNA Therapies, TCR & Algae Beer

Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

Louvain-la-Neuve: A Belgian temple for success in cell therapy

Adaptimmune’s TCR Therapy Proves its Superiority over its Immuno-oncology Competitors

Medigene plans to fund its T-cell program with €50 Millions

Pluristem accelerates its Cell Therapy program thanks to the EMA

[UPDATE] Adaptimmune raised €156.7M in its IPO

US-based Juno Therapeutics purchased a German biotech

Important Bilateral Academic Agreement for the Future of iPS Cell Therapy

Promethera Biosciences Raised €25,33M to Treat Liver Diseases

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