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News and Trends 23 Dec 2016

The 8 Biggest Biotech Medical Fails of 2016 in Europe

Although 2016 has brought plenty of good news in medical advances, biotech is an industry where failure is part of the game. Here’s a list of medical fails in biotech to learn from this year. Unfortunately, 2016 has not been a good year for pharma, with revenues in the top companies falling, the lowest number […]

December 23, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 20 Dec 2016

These are our 10 Most Read Biotech Articles of 2016

From the hottest research areas to the most popular city for biotech, which biotech articles have managed to hook our readers the most this year? After an exciting journey of 2 years, Labiotech.eu is now the leading biotech media in Europe, with over 50k monthly readers. To celebrate the end of another amazing year, we wanted […]

December 20, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 20 Dec 2016

What Does ‘Anti-Aging Treatment’ Mean in Biotech?

Beyond filling in wrinkles with cosmetics, how do you solve a problem like aging? Here’s how biotech is sinking its teeth into the challenge. “Aging is… broadly [defined] as the time-dependent functional decline that affects most living organisms.” Maria Blasco, Hallmarks of Aging. Can we treat aging directly with medicine? “For the past decade, pharma and […]

December 20, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 9 Dec 2016

Paris takes the lead in Digital Health for Diabetes Type 2

The smell of freshly baked baguettes and good news from the capital have brought us this week to France. Voluntis has received market approval for a device that could change the life of millions of people with diabetes type 2, check out this cool company! City: Paris, France Founded: 2001 Employees: 100 Financial data: Total of €29.8M raised in […]

December 9, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Interview 28 Nov 2016

Needle-Free Diabetes Monitoring: Interview with the Co-Founder of GlucoWise

The needle-free revolution for diabetes is coming! We interviewed Panos Kosmas, co-founder of MediWise, to get the juicy details of GlucoWise. This revolutionary wireless device could free the more than 422 million people living with diabetes worldwide from the daily pain of conventional glucose monitoring. Panos Kosmas is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of MediWise, a […]

November 28, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 7 Nov 2016

The Mind Behind the Artificial Pancreas that Could Change the Lives of Diabetics

We had the opportunity to talk with Roman Hovorka, from The University of Cambridge, who’s working on a revolutionary medical device that can automatically improve glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes. An artificial pancreas is a device that measures glucose levels and responds by injecting the right amount of insulin required at any […]

November 7, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 24 Oct 2016

A €103M Target to Reduce Drug Dosage with a Slow-Release Tech

Ascendis aims to raise €103M ($112M) for Phase III trials in Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) that offer children a weekly alternative to daily injections. After its IPO on NASDAQ last year, the Danish Ascendis is making an underwritten public offering in the US that aims to raise €103M ($112M) to advance its TransCon pipeline. The funds will be directed to […]

October 24, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 12 Sep 2016

Sanofi & Google Joint Venture could Revolutionize Diabetes

Sanofi and Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, have signed a deal to form a €444M joint venture, Onduo. Its aim is to integrate medicine and microelectronics to tackle diabetes. Steve Jobs prophesied that “the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology,” and it appears that Verily, a division of […]

September 12, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 22 Aug 2016

Sanofi loses lead on new Diabetes drug, because of… an user-unfriendly Pen

Sanofi and Novo Nordisk have been in a tight race to put their new insulin GLP-1 combination drugs for Type 2 Diabetes on the market. Sanofi now suffers a short (but critical) setback, as the FDA is not impressed with its drug delivery system. Sanofi and Novo Nordisk have both strong positions in the diabetes […]

August 22, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 18 Aug 2016

This Icelandic Start-Up just raised Money to turn injections into Eye-Drops

Oculis just closed its Series A fundraising with the help of Icelandic investors. The money will help get its first eye-drops in the market, to treat diabetic macular edema (DME) without injections or implants. Based in Reykjavik, Oculis was founded in 2003 to develop a new drug delivery platform. This technology consists of solubilizing nanoparticles (SNP), which […]

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

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News and Trends 19 Jul 2016

Poxel raises €26.5M to support Phase III trial in Diabetes

Poxel has closed a capital increase on the Euronext Paris, raising €26.5M. The money is intended to fund its plans to tackle the $4Bn Japanese market for Type 2 diabetes. Biotech is tackling diabetes with many different approaches, from new oral drugs to MedTech and cell therapy. In particular, type 2 diabetes (connected to a […]

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

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News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

Could this be the ‘Beginning of the end’ for Diabetes? Let’s Review.

Given the rates of diabetes reaching ‘epidemic proportions’, we figured it was time to have a better overview of biotech’s progress in the field. With some serious advances having been made in the treatment of the disease, we have to ask – how much further can biotech go in the treatment of diabetes? It is important […]

June 14, 2016 - 9 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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