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In Depth 5 Jan 2016

Ultimate Review: How Could mRNA Overtake all other Biologicals in Medicine?

What if we could send the body an instruction to produce its own drug? That’s what messenger RNA (mRNA) could achieve. A whole new area of therapeutics could be opened. Let’s try to get an overview of how… So for those who don’t know what a mRNA is, here are some basics. This diagram below […]

January 5, 2016 - 7 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

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News and Trends 17 Nov 2015

What will Happen now the Microbiome Hype has Broken into the Immuno-Oncology Field?

The Microbiome and Immuno-Oncology fields are hugely trendy in the Biotech Industry – and now a marriage between the two has finally occurred… The Microbiome field is still very new, with the launch of the US Human Microbiome Project just happening in 2008. Nonetheless, some start-ups are moving fast up the microbiome ranks, as well […]

November 17, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 16 Nov 2015

What are Money-Magnet Moderna’s future plans? French Founding CEO explains here

Before the end of the mRNA conference in Berlin, I had to interview Stephane Bancel, the French founding CEO of Moderna…one of the biggest deals in Biotech today. Moderna is the mRNA therapies companies from Cambridge/Boston (US), most famous for having raised over 900 million dollars in VC money. I met Stephane one and a […]

November 16, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 10 Sep 2015

CureVac, the mRNA Therapy Leader, is invading Moderna’s Homeland!

One more hit to Moderna Therapeutics struck by its German competitor CureVac! The Tübingen-based company just announced the opening of its subsidiary in Boston – hometown of Moderna – and a research collaboration with the U.S. non-profit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) to develop a mRNA-based HIV treatment. CureVac, today announced the official launch of its U.S. operations in […]

September 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 31 Aug 2015

Review: The Future of Biomarkers in Immuno-Oncology

Immuno-oncology is a Biotech field that is more than just hype – it could solve one of humanity’s biggest health challenges: Cancer. In order to bring more effective treatments with fewer side-effects, Biomarkers will play a key role. I wanted to get an expert view on the subject, so I called Bernhard Sixt, CEO of the […]

August 31, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 8 Jul 2015

CureVac’s mRNA Therapy is Working Against Prostate Cancer

mRNA based immunotherapies are no pipe dream anymore. Germany’s CureVac just presented encouraging results of its Phase IIa clinical study. The firm’s lead mRNA candidate CV9103 is well tolerated and immunogenic in patients with prostate cancer. Based on the favorable data, CureVac initiated a Phase IIb study with a follower prostate cancer vaccine. Just recently, […]

July 8, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 1 Jul 2015

mRNA Therapies: CureVac Outperformed the Money Magnet Moderna

Everybody has already heard about Boston-based Moderna Therapeutics, the most highly valued venture-backed private Biotech, but CureVac, its German competitor, remains much more understated. This could rapidly change as CureVac just demonstrated that its technology beats Moderna’s. mRNA technologies could theoretically disrupt the whole drug industry. Imagine that you can directly inject mRNA into patients to make them produce their own therapeutic proteins. Unfortunately, […]

July 1, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 4 Feb 2015

And now, Moderna signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur

Moderna is the Biotech company that raised the biggest VC round ever ($450M) and which signs deals almost every week. It signed a $50M deal with Merck two weeks ago, and now signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur from Paris through its new Venture Valera. Moderna is developing a proprietary mRNA therapeutics platform. Instead […]

February 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 6 Jan 2015

The largest VC investment in a single Biotech company has just been made

Wow, 2015 starts in a rush for the biotech industry. Moderna Therapeutics, Boston-based company led by French co-founding CEO Stephan Bancel just raised $450M (€380M) in VC investment. According to The Wall Street Journal, it is the largest VC-Investment ever made in a Biotech company. Moderna was founded only in 2011 and is an awesome company […]

January 6, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 22 Sep 2014

Is a new revolution in lung cancer drug treatment coming ?

A new revolutionary treatment could help cure lung cancer. It is based on mRNA instead of antibodies and chemotherapy. Instead of delivering the protein or the drug, only a message is delivering and the body will produce the therapeutics. Curevac, the historic and one of the leading Biotech company in this field announced a 465 million […]

September 22, 2014 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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