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More News! 27 Jun 2017

Green Biotech Enters Partnership to Advance the Infinite Recycling of Plastics

Carbios has teamed up with TechnipFMC in order to move Carbios’ enzymatic recycling process for PET plastics from the laboratory to the pilot scale. French Carbios is looking to combat the limits of current thermo-mechanical recycling processes using an enzyme-based degradation process that paves the way to infinite recycling of PET. The annual production of PET, one […]

June 27, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

More News! 23 Jun 2017

French Biotech Raises Over €22M to Launch a Gene Therapy to Restore Sight

Gensight Biologics has announced a capital increase that totals €22.5M and will support the launch of its gene therapy for blindness in Europe and the US. Gensight has decided to give an additional financial push to its lead candidate, GS010, a gene therapy to restore sight in patients with the rare genetic disease Leber hereditary optic […]

June 23, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Startup Scout 23 Jun 2017

This Newly Founded French Biotech is All About Vaccines

This week we visited the biotech hub Lyon, where one of our top biotechs Imaxio has recently founded Osivax to advance the development of its innovative vaccine candidates. Mission: Osivax was formed as a spin-off of Imaxio’s R&D department and develops a number of clinical and preclinical vaccine candidates based on its OligoDOM technology. This approach fuses specific immunogenic domains to […]

June 23, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 22 Jun 2017

French Nonprofit Partners with Big American Name to Advance a Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy

Noble Généthon has teamed up with ignominious Sarepta to develop a gene therapy for the Duchenne variety of the muscle wasting disease. Dedicated to rare diseases since 1990 and more recently to gene therapy, Généthon is one of very few not-for-profit companies in European biotech. Though it has not yet brought a drug to market, it is […]

June 22, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

Ose Immunotherapeutics bpifrance milestone bowel disease

News and Trends 22 Jun 2017

Immunotherapy for Bowel Disease Gets €2.6M Milestone Payment from Bpifrance

OSE Immunotherapeutics has successfully completed the necessary milestones to bring a treatment for autoimmune disease to the clinic, triggering a milestone payment from its partner Bpifrance. OSE Immunotherapeutics, based in Nantes, France, has received €2.6M from the French public investment agency Bpifrance after completing another milestone in the development of a therapy for inflammatory bowel disease. […]

June 22, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 19 Jun 2017

This Company Uses the Human Microbiome to Discover New Disease Mechanisms

A whole new avenue to human health and disease could soon be accessible, thanks to the human tissue microbiome. Vaiomer has found a way to make it possible! Has anyone else ever been unsettled by the idea that the human body hosts about 10 times more microbes than human cells? Although this might seem an […]

June 19, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 14 Jun 2017

French Hepatitis Cure is on Track with Positive Phase I Results

Enyo Pharma has announced that its lead candidate EYP001, indicated for the treatment of hepatitis B, successfully cleared a Phase Ia trial. Enyo Pharma is one of the hottest biotechs in Lyon that is developing new treatments against viruses, including hepatitis B or severe influenza infections. Its key asset, EYP001, is a farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonist indicated […]

June 14, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 6 Jun 2017

French Biotech Strikes Deal with Novo Nordisk for New Cancer Drug

Novo Nordisk has handed over its anti-cancer antibody to Innate Pharma in a new deal that could earn the diabetes specialist up to €370M in milestones. The immuno-oncology biotech Innate Pharma has in-licensed a new clinical-stage antibody candidate from Novo Nordisk to reinforce its position in the crowded space. In exchange for its anti-C5aR antibody, IPH5401, […]

June 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

Startup Scout 2 Jun 2017

This French Biotech Wants to Reinvent DC-based Immunotherapies

This week we had the chance to visit both Grenoble and Liège, where the French-Belgian biotech hybrid PDC*line Pharma has its two headquarters. The company is progressing new types of immunotherapies based on dendritic cells (DCs). Mission: PDC*line Pharma emerged from an R&D program of the French Blood Bank (EFS, Etablissement Français du Sang), where […]

June 2, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 24 May 2017

French Biotech Enters New Agreement to Advance its IBD Immunotherapy

OSE Immunotherapeutics has teamed up with Selexis in a new license agreement to support the development of its IL-7 antagonist for the treatment of IBD. In the end of last year, French OSE Immunotherapeutics joined forces with Servier to develop and commercialize its interleukin-7 antagonist (Effi-7) in a deal that could earn the biotech up […]

May 24, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

Interview 18 May 2017

#Live# Labiotech Hangout: Join our first webcast on anti-aging therapies!

As we grow as a company, our content is growing too! Hang out with us and anti-aging VC managing partner, James Peyer, online next week. Join Now! We can’t wait for an event to produce videos for our readers, and we realized we don’t have to! Next week, we’re trying out a new feature and bringing additional […]

May 18, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 17 May 2017

Danish Biotech Targeting Ion Channels Completes Private Placement

The biotech company Saniona has announced the issue of new shares to Swedish and international investors, raising a total of €3.6M. Saniona, a Danish biotech listed on the Nasdaq First North Premier, just completed a private placement that raised €3.6M (SEK 35M) before issue costs. The funds are intended to provide the company with more flexibility […]

May 17, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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