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News and Trends 18 Dec 2015

64 Million RSV Infections Per Year: Perhaps Alpaca Nanobodies Will Save Infant Lives

Ablynx, the Alpaca Nanobody Biotech from Belgium, has completed target enrollment of the first-in-infant Phase I/IIa study with its anti-Respiratory Syncytial virus, which is linked to 3,000-8,500 infant deaths each year. ALX-0171 is a wholly-owned Nanobody drug candidate administered through inhalation (nebulisation), for the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in infants. The candidate […]

December 18, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 26 Nov 2015

Ablynx Top Trumps: Adding Danish Diabetes Giant Novo Nordisk to its Biotech Deck

Ablynx – the Belgian Nanobody biotech (which uses monoclonal antibodies of Alpacas) has entered a new and exclusive partnership with the Danish Novo Nordisk on a mysterious disease… Ablynx are famously well connected in the biotech industry, with many huge pharmas licensing out their Alpaca-nanobody tech. Partnerships include AbbVie (Immunology), Boehringer Ingelheim, Genzyme (Multiple Sclerosis/CNS), […]

November 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Oct 2015

Ablynx richly rewarded for MSD’s Nanobody Proof in Immuno-Oncology

Ablynx – the Belgian nanobody biotech (which uses monoclonal antibodies of Alpacas), has now achieved it’s first pre-clinical milestone in its immuno-oncology partnership with MSD (Merck & Co). Now Ablynx has achieved proof of concept for one of the 17 Nanobodies being studied. Ablynx has therefore received the first €3.5M in milestone payments from MSD […]

October 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 1 Oct 2015

Asceneuron’s latest stab at the Alzheimer’s challenge with Sofinnova

Paris based Sofinnova continues to invest in the Alzheimer’s fight, with a €27.5M pot given to Swiss Asceneuron (originally a spin-off from Merck-Serono). Sofinnova therefore joins other investors such as JJDC in the new and optimistic biotech wave of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). The last decade has been fairly […]

October 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Sep 2015

Could an Alpaca’s monoclonal antibodies be used to treat an ultra-rare blood disease?

Ablynx‘s Nanobody platform has used the smaller than human monoclonal antibodies from an alpaca to develop the phase III Orphan designated drug Caplacizumab. A phase III study ‘Hercules’ is now pioneering Caplacizumab as the first ever anti-Von Willebrand factor (vWF) nanobody for treating an ultra-rare blood clotting disorder. Caplacizumab is a pioneering monoclonal antibody (mAb) […]

September 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 20 Aug 2015

DNA to play an essential role in the future of Computers?

You can do terrific things with DNA – convicting a murderer, confirming the right father … and building computers! As biomolecular computing is ever-growing, scientists from the University of East Anglia found a new way to convert DNA in a switching mechanism. This could be used in new bio-computers built from DNA. The structure of […]

August 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 27 Jul 2015

Ablynx and MSD upgrade their €1.7Bn deal to gigantic €5.7Bn

Using camel antibodies as drugs, sounds crazy? Belgian Ablynx is exactly doing that and has been very successful so far. It’s now moving to the next step. It already signed a €1.7Bn deal with Merck & Co. in February 2014 and now upgrades it to a gigantic €5.7Bn! Ablynx is a biotech company developing Nanobodies for immune-oncology […]

July 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 May 2015

Genzyme joins the never-ending list of Ablynx’ partners

Genzyme is joining Ablynx’ partner list, which already includes AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eddingpharm, Merck & Co, Merck Serono and Novartis. The Sanofi subsidiary now wants to try out the Nanobody technology of Ablynx against a target at the origin of multiple sclerosis. Genzyme wants to investigate nanobodies against a target that specifically aligns with Genzyme’s early-stage multiple […]

May 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 15 May 2015

Ablynx gets tangled up in partnerships with Big Pharma companies

The Belgium-based company is leading more than 20 pre-clinical and clinical programmes with several partners to put the Nanobody technology on the market. Companies such as AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eddingpharm, Merck & Co, Merck Serono and Novartis are part of Ablynx’s dream team. Ablynx is a biotech company developing Nanobodies. Nanobody technology was originally developed […]

May 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 9 Apr 2015

Exclusive interview with Laurent Levy, CEO of Nanobiotix, Leading European Nanomedicine Biotech

Nanomedicine could be the next revolution in healthcare and Paris-based Nanobiotix is one of the leading biotech in the field. It started from a vision in 2003 and now counts 50 employees after having raised over €70M. I had the chance to chat with Laurent Levy, founding CEO of the company, and will give you an […]

April 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Aug 2014

Ablynx gain €2.1m to develop a novel Nanobodies for Ocular applications

Ablynx is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of Nanobodies, a novel class of therapeutic proteins based on single-domain antibody fragments, for a range of serious human diseases, including inflammation, haematology, oncology and pulmonary disease. Ablynx today announced that it has been awarded a €2.1 million grant by the Flemish Agency for […]

August 19, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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