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News and Trends 10 Jul 2015

First-in-human successful Phase I for an Alzheimer’s vaccine

AXON Neuroscience has completed a pioneer Phase I that offers new hope for millions of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. This makes AXON the first company to successfully complete this clinical trial for a vaccine that targets diseased tau proteins, which cause neural degeneration. Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the presence of prejudicial forms of protein […]

July 10, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 2 Jul 2015

Biogen is back home with its $1Bn Swiss production plant

Biogen is coming back home. The American company is opening a production plant in Switzerland that will employ 400 professionals. To this aim, the company will invest €0.9Bn ($1Bn) into the project. Biogen was founded back in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland, and now aims at expanding its manufacturing network by opening a biopharmaceutical plant in […]

July 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Jun 2015

A Dutch entrepreneur curing his ALS disease became BIO’s Superhero

Each year, BIO Philadelphia awards the Everyday Superheroes of Biotech Industry. Here’s the story of Bernard Muller, co-founder of Treeway, a Dutch biotech company focused on the treatment of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Bernard Muller is an extraordinary person, being himself a ALS patient and an entrepreneur who started his own Biotech company. Last week, we were talking […]

June 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 13 Mar 2015

Get prepared: Pi day is coming!

Pi day, the unofficial annual holiday commemorating the math constant π, has this year a special significance. It is celebrated on March 14th, or 3/14 in the month/day date format, as the three first numbers of the constant. Furthermore, a sequential time will also happen tomorrow, on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53, when the clock will display […]

March 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 Feb 2015

Unstoppable Ferring after the Acquisition of a novel Oral Drug Delivery Technology

Ferring Pharmaceuticals signed an agreement with South Korean CTCBIO to acquire rights to a novel oral drug delivery technology. The Swiss company is growing more and more rapidly with plenty of updates since the begining of the year. Ferring’s success in developing oral formulations for peptide drugs including the world’s first orally active peptide, desmopressin […]

February 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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