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Interview 12 Feb 2018

MorphoSys’ CEO Tells Us What’s Next for Europe’s Antibody Expert

After 25 years, MorphoSys finally got over the line in 2017 with the FDA approval of its first antibody. CEO Simon Moroney tells us how the company hopes to build on its recent success. It may have started out as a tech provider, but MorphoSys now stands as one of the leading German biotechs, specializing […]

February 12, 2018 - 8 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 29 Jan 2018

London Tops Europe for Life Sciences Investment in 2017

Investment in London’s life sciences companies reached almost £1B in 2017, beating the likes of Berlin and Paris to top spot. A new study has found that London’s life sciences industry received the most investment out of any city in Europe in 2017. Over the last 5 years, companies in the capital have raised £2.8Bn (€3.2Bn), with £909M […]

January 29, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 29 Jan 2018

Mapping of the Axolotl’s Genome Boosts the Regenerative Medicine Field

Salamanders have long been a useful model for regenerative medicine due to their ability to regrow entire limbs. Now, scientists have found the genes that drive the process. Scientists in Vienna, Dresden, and Heidelberg are the first to completely map the genome of the axolotl salamander. Despite its popularity as a biological model and use for […]

January 29, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

Interview 29 Jan 2018

Meet the CEO of the Other Big Biotech Acquisition Target in 2017

Christian Schetter’s company, Rigontec, was acquired by MSD last year for nearly half a billion euro. How did he and the company do it, with only one early-stage candidate? There were exactly two notable biotech acquisitions in Europe last year: Actelion and a smaller startup based in Munich called Rigontec, which had an RNA candidate […]

January 29, 2018 - 9 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 17 Jan 2018

Here’s Your New Year’s Resolution: Get Your Immune System in Shape

If you’re having trouble deciding on a New Year’s resolution, why not train up your immune system? Scientists believe this could help prevent the side effects of chemotherapy. Researchers at Technische Universitaet Dresden believe that by ‘training’ the immune system, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy could be spared some of the trauma. The study, published in Cell, […]

January 17, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 15 Jan 2018

This is Why You Should Avoid Eating too Much Junk Food

Following last week’s article about the importance of eating plenty of fruit and vegetables, German researchers have unearthed another link between junk food and diabetes and heart disease. Researchers from the University of Bonn, Germany, have found that an unhealthy diet can cause the immune system to act as if it is responding to bacterial […]

January 15, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 11 Jan 2018

German Biotech Gets FDA Approval to Start an Ulcerative Colitis Phase II Study

The FDA will allow Immunic Therapeutics to commence a Phase II clinical trial to test its oral investigational drug, IMU-838, for the treatment of ulcerative colitis. Immunic Therapeutics, which closed a €31M Series A last September, specializes in the development of drugs for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. At the moment, the company has two ongoing […]

January 11, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 9 Jan 2018

Scancell and BioNTech Will Combine Their Expertise to Fight Cancer

Scancell has brought in BioNTech to develop T-cell receptors against specific target proteins in cancer cells, opening the door to new cancer treatments that target them. Scancell works on immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and it has announced that it will come together with Europe’s largest private biopharma, BioNTech, to develop T-cell receptor (TCR)-based therapies. […]

January 9, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 4 Jan 2018

Boehringer Ingelheim Doubles its Venture Fund for Exciting Biotech

Boehringer Ingelheim has committed to continue helping young companies grow by doubling the size of its venture fund to €250M, which will allow it to expand its focus. Boehringer Ingelheim is a big pharma hoping to drive the development of new and effective medicines. Today, the company announced that it has more than doubled the size of […]

January 4, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 4 Jan 2018

German Biotech Raises Record $270M Series A for Individualized Cancer Therapies

BioNTech will dedicate its huge fundraising to develop personalized cancer immunotherapies using CAR-T, TCR and mRNA technologies. BioNTech is kicking off the new year with great news. The company has closed its Series A with $270M (€225M) — a record amount in Germany for such an early funding round. The fundraising was led by the […]

January 4, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 21 Dec 2017

Scientists Find New Immune Target to Stop Progression of Alzheimer’s

Scientists have described a new mechanism by which the immune system can drive Alzheimer’s and shown that blocking it can prevent the disease in mice. A study published yesterday in Nature details how a molecule involved in the innate immune response can promote the aggregation of amyloid-β plaques that appear in the brains of patients […]

December 21, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 19 Dec 2017

Schizophrenia and Drug Delivery Biotechs Sign a Major Pharma Partner

Santa Claus is not the only busy one in the weeks leading up to Christmas this year, with Boehringer Ingelheim signing collaborations with Autifony and Evox Therapeutics. In the last couple of days, Boehringer Ingelheim has agreed to collaborate with two exciting British biotechs. On Monday, a deal worth up to €627.5M was agreed with CNS disorders specialist, […]

December 19, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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