News and Trends 23 Mar 2023
Gut microbiota to be harnessed as a tool to diagnose diseases
A recent study at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland compared the gut microbiota and gut-derived metabolites between healthy controls…
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News and Trends 23 Feb 2023
New promising targeted drug for a rare leukemia
Targeted drugs have been developed to supplement chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. These drugs only affect cancer cells, leaving…
News and Trends 9 Feb 2023
TILT Biotherapeutics closes €22M financing for oncology immunotherapy trials
TILT Biotherapeutics (TILT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies, has closed its €22 million ($23.8 million) round. This follows…
News and Trends 19 Jan 2023
Hundreds of genetic discoveries from FinnGen study
New results from the FinnGen research consortium include previously unknown genetic risk factors for many debilitating diseases. These findings have…
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News and Trends 20 Dec 2022
Watch: Valo Therapeutics at Bio-Europe
Valo Therapeutics Oy is a Finnish immunotherapy company developing antigen-coated oncolytic viruses and vaccine vectors as innovative immunotherapy approaches against…
News and Trends 20 Dec 2022
Watch: SwedenBIO leading the way
SwedenBIO is the national non-profit association for the life science industry in Sweden, with more than 300 members.
News and Trends 5 Dec 2022
Faron Pharmaceuticals provides cancer treatment update
Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy has given an update on its phase I/II BEXMAB study, investigating bexmarilimab. Bexmarilimab is Faron’s wholly owned…
News and Trends 2 Dec 2022
Partnership to deliver oncology workflow for 7 European hospitals
A BC Platforms (BCP) partnership that includes Finland’s Euformatics and Hungary’s Oncompass Medicine has been awarded a contract for the…
News and Trends 10 Nov 2022
Promising drug candidate discovered for prevention of type 1 diabetes
According to a new study in Finland, type 1 diabetes could be prevented by inhibiting a gene associated with the…
News and Trends 26 Oct 2022
Singapore approves gas fermentation-powered protein
A food ingredient developed by the Finnish startup Solar Foods has earned its first market approval in Singapore. The product…
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News and Trends 14 Oct 2022
Beyond Biotech podcast 18: BiotechX, Cultivated Biosciences, EPFL, Faron Pharmaceuticals
This week, we have four interviews. Our guests are: Juho Jalkanen, COO of Faron Pharmaceuticals; Ardemis Boghossian and Melania Reggente…
News and Trends 7 Oct 2022
AI model study may lead to identifying skin cancer from blood test
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts which skin cancer patients will benefit from a treatment that…
More News! 29 Sep 2022
Removing binding sites for an oncogene can slow cancer cell growth, researchers say
Cancer cell growth could be slowed down by removing binding sites for an oncogene, researchers from the University of Helsinki…
News and Trends 26 Sep 2022
TILT and MSD working on immunotherapy trial for non-small cell lung cancer
TILT Biotherapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies, has signed a second clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with…
News and Trends 20 Sep 2022
Biopharma company Faron announces escalation data cancer treatment study
A clinical stage biopharma company has announced further dose escalation data from its phase 1/2 study looking at the safety…
News and Trends 16 Sep 2022
Beyond Biotech podcast 14: Nordic Life Science NLS Days 2022
This week’s podcast is dedicated to Nordic Life Science Days, otherwise known as NLS Days. This year’s version is an…
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News and Trends 13 Sep 2022
Faron Pharmaceuticals’ Traumakine data shows promise for military applications
Faron Pharmaceuticals Ltd presented data from its preclinical salvage, preservation, and advanced resuscitation through endothelial stabilization (SPARES) study at the…
News and Trends 8 Sep 2022
Onego Bio secures extra funding for egg white production technology
Onego Bio is a biotech spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The company uses a commercially proven Trichoderma…
News and Trends 6 Sep 2022
Finnish researchers use machine learning to unlock clinical cancer samples’ genomic code
A new paper from the University of Helsinki, published in Nature Communications, suggests a method for accurately analyzing genomics data…
News and Trends 22 Aug 2022
BioInnovation Institute supports three start-ups
The BioInnovation Institute (BII), an international commercial non-profit foundation incubating and accelerating life science research, has invested in three international…