News and Trends 11 Sep 2024
Can Europe revive its biopharma innovation leadership?
Find out if the biotech runner-up, Europe, can step up to boost research and revive its innovation leadership.
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Podcast 16 Aug 2024
Challenging the European biotech funding status quo
Explore the latest trends in biotech investments and funding strategies in Europe with insights from 4BIO Capital’s Dima Kuzmin.
Overcoming obstacles as advanced therapies continue to evolve in Europe
Discover strategies to overcome the challenges in advanced therapy development in Europe’s evolving biopharmaceutical landscape.
Expert Advice 1 Feb 2024
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive: Is the life sciences industry ready?
2024 will be the first year when biotechs will have to report on their sustainability data under the CSRD. But is the industry prepared?
In Depth 11 Dec 2023
European patents in biotech: how to prevent invalid patents?
The ongoing patent battle between COVID-19 vaccine giants, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, has seen a new development when the European Patent Office (EPO) invalidated one of Moderna’s patents related to “respiratory virus vaccines.” BioNTech, in collaboration with Pfizer and Sanofi, opposed the patent, leading to its invalidation. The European patent process is complex but essential. As […]
News and Trends 18 Sep 2023
Rebuilding relations: U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe to boost funding opportunities
The U.K. is rejoining the European Union’s (EU’s) $100 billion research program Horizon Europe, after being locked out of the deal amid post Brexit tensions for more than two years. This comes after months of negotiations between the U.K. government and the EU, in an attempt to broaden opportunities for researchers in the U.K.. British […]
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Best in Biotech 29 Aug 2023
Are these 10 biotech recruiters on your radar this year?
The process of hunting for recruits can be a struggle for many companies, particularly when they have an ideal candidate in mind. And many at times, for the life science/biotech industry, due to the highly competitive landscape – for both recruiters and job seekers – hiring has been made more difficult. While some believe that […]
Best in Biotech 15 Mar 2023
7 biotechs in Hungary you should know about
Hungary is famous for many things: thermal baths, goulash, beautiful architecture and, of course, the Rubik’s cube. But, what is going on in the country’s biotech industry? The answer is: more than you might think. Did you know that Hungary could be considered the birthplace of European biotechnology? A Hungarian agricultural engineer was the first […]
News and Trends 10 Feb 2023
Europe approves childhood epilepsy treatment
UCB’s FINTEPLA (fenfluramine) oral solution has been approved in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) as an add-on therapy to other anti-epileptic medicines for patients two years of age and older. The approval by the European Commission (EC) was based on safety and efficacy data from a […]
News and Trends 10 Feb 2023
Beyond Biotech podcast 33: Astellas Pharma, Innovation Agency Lithuania, 4basebio
This week, our guests are Romualda Stragienė, director at Innovation Agency Lithuania and Andrius Sliuzas, export key account manager of high tech industries at Innovation Agency Lithuania; 4basebio CEO Heikki Lanckriet; and Yoshitsugu Shitaka, chief scientific officer at Astellas. 4basebio 4basebio, a spinout of 2Invest AG in 2020, is a life sciences company engaged in […]
In Depth 6 Feb 2023
The biggest private biotech investments in January 2023
The companies Asimov, BioRay Pharmaceuticals and Colossal Biosciences bagged the biggest biotech investments in January 2023. Around the world, synthetic biology players and firms developing treatments for hormonal disorders attracted the biggest funding rounds. 2023 began with a bang in terms of biotech funding, and there are signs of stabilization in biotech stocks after two […]
News and Trends 12 Jan 2023
JPND launches €16.5M call for research on OMICS data for neurodegenerative diseases
The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) initiative has issued a call for multinational research on large scale analysis of OMICS data for drug-target finding in neurodegenerative diseases. Neurodegenerative diseases are debilitating and largely untreatable conditions that are strongly linked with age. Worldwide, there are estimated to be 50 million people with Alzheimer’s […]
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