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Is an HIV Cure Possible? The Future of HIV Therapy

HIV research has come a long way since the virus was discovered in the 1980s. Antiretroviral therapy was a major milestone that has changed the lives of millions; the goal now is to find an HIV cure. Back in 2008, Timothy Ray Brown was the first person to be cured of HIV. Known as the […]

December 1, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Best in Biotech 20 Dec 2021

The Billion-Euro European Biotech Companies in 2022

Here’s a list of the public European biotech companies that are worth more than a billion euros in 2022. European biotech is growing steadily and this year we welcome a few new names to the list of billion-euro biotechs. However, we also had to say goodbye to some of them, including Cellectis, Autolus, and Orchard […]

December 20, 2021 - 12 minutesmins - By Larissa Warneck-Silvestrin

Best in Biotech 28 Dec 2020

A Year to Remember: The Biggest European Biotech News in 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic caused huge disruption for European biotech in 2020, but the industry pulled through. Let’s look back at some of the top moments in the last 12 months. After the many drug approvals, startup foundations, and venture capital highs we saw in 2019, it looked like 2020 was going to be a comfortable […]

December 28, 2020 - 12 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 17 Sep 2020

The Top 10 Biotech Companies Brewing at Oxford

Here are the top biotech companies in Oxford, a city in the U.K. with an old scientific tradition and an enormous output of biotech applications. Oxford is well known for its university, one of the oldest in Europe and considered to be one of the best in the world. Recently, the University of Oxford has […]

September 17, 2020 - 8 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 4 Mar 2020

Immunocore Raises €117M to Develop Immunotherapies for Cancer and Hepatitis B

UK biotech Immunocore has raised €116.7M in Series B funding to develop drugs that harness the body’s immune cells to fight cancer, viral infections, and autoimmune diseases. This latest funding round for the company, which specializes in redirecting and activating T-cells, includes an international group of new investors led by the US private equity firm […]

March 4, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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News and Trends 20 Nov 2018

Genentech and Immunocore Expand Partnership to Develop Cancer Immunotherapy

Immunocore and the US biotech giant Genentech are building on their existing partnership to boost the clinical development of Immunocore’s immunotherapy for treating solid tumors. In the agreement, Genentech, a member of the Roche group, will pay UK-based Immunocore €87.3M ($100M) in an upfront payment and further undisclosed milestone payments as the immunotherapy progresses towards […]

November 20, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 20 Feb 2018

Money, Money, Money! Europe’s Best-Funded Biotechs in 2018

Besides struggling with ambitious New Year’s resolutions and post-holiday diets, January is a time where many of us re-examine our finances and budget for the year ahead. With money on the brain, we thought it would be a good time to do a roundup of Europe’s best-funded private biotechs. With over €400M raised to date, […]

February 20, 2018 - 11 minutesmins - By Karen O’Hanlon Cohrt

Best in Biotech 27 Dec 2017

The Biggest Biotech News of 2017: What Happened This Year?

Still catching up on news? We’ve picked out the most exciting things that happened besides clinical results and finance. Here’s the biggest biotech news of 2017. We’ve been recapping the year with the most stellar biotechs, most heartening clinical successes and most disappointing failures in biotech. But what else happened this year? There’s more news […]

December 27, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 12 Dec 2017

Immunotherapy for Uveal Melanoma is on Track for Early Access in the UK

The UK grants Immunocore access to a fast-track scheme that will make its immunotherapy IMCgp100 available to patients with uveal melanoma before approval. The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has deemed Immunocore’s technology worth being used by patients before it’s approved. The regulatory agency has granted Promising Innovative Medicines (PIM) designation to IMCgp100 for […]

December 12, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 13 Nov 2017

World Antibiotic Awareness Week: Here are Biotech’s Top 5 Strategies to Overcome Resistance

This week marks the WHO’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week. We had a look at some of the best work being done by biotechs to fight resistance. An estimated 154 million prescriptions for antibiotics are written each year, but up to 30% are unnecessary. The World Health Organization has set up World Antibiotic Awareness Week to tackle this. This year’s theme is […]

November 13, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 13 Nov 2017

Biotech Unicorn’s T-Cell Receptor Therapy “Nearly Doubles” Survival in Uveal Melanoma

Immunocore, one of the only three European biotech unicorns, has presented Phase I results for its TCR immunotherapy IMCgp100 in patients suffering from metastatic uveal melanoma. Results are positive, but perhaps not to the level of expectation for a company with such a high valuation. On Saturday, Immunocore presented its latest clinical results at the Society […]

November 13, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 18 Sep 2017

British Unicorn Gets $40M Boost from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have injected $40M (€33M) into Immunocore to accelerate the development of its immunotherapies for infectious diseases. Investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support the development of Immunocore’s ImmTAV and ImmTAB TCR-based technologies, which help the immune system to target virally and bacterially infected cells, respectively. In particular, […]

September 18, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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Is an HIV Cure Possible? The Future of HIV Therapy

The Billion-Euro European Biotech Companies in 2022

A Year to Remember: The Biggest European Biotech News in 2020

The Top 10 Biotech Companies Brewing at Oxford

Immunocore Raises €117M to Develop Immunotherapies for Cancer and Hepatitis B

Genentech and Immunocore Expand Partnership to Develop Cancer Immunotherapy

Money, Money, Money! Europe’s Best-Funded Biotechs in 2018

The Biggest Biotech News of 2017: What Happened This Year?

Immunotherapy for Uveal Melanoma is on Track for Early Access in the UK

World Antibiotic Awareness Week: Here are Biotech’s Top 5 Strategies to Overcome Resistance

Biotech Unicorn’s T-Cell Receptor Therapy “Nearly Doubles” Survival in Uveal Melanoma

British Unicorn Gets $40M Boost from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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