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News and Trends 11 Apr 2017

French Microbiome Startup Gets a Series A Funding Boost to Regulate Appetite

The French biotech startup TargEDys has extended its series A funding initiated in April 2016 by €3.5M to accelerate the development of its pipeline. After raising an initial €5.8M in a series A funding round from big names like Seventure Partners, TargEDys has now raked an additional €3.5M from the Zaluvida group. The company has also appointed Christoph […]

April 11, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 12 Jan 2017

Antibody Treatment for Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes enters Phase II

Novartis is initiating Phase II trials with an antibody licensed from German biotech MorphoSys that tackles the obesity and diabetes epidemic. MorphoSys is a billion euro biotech that develops therapeutic antibodies for big names like Bayer, Pfizer, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche and Janssen. The company is now adding type 2 diabetes to its long list of indications; bimagrumab will start Phase […]

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

News and Trends 9 Jan 2017

Top European VC and CRO fund Young Metabolic Disease Biotech

Eternygen has received €8M in a Series A round led by Epidarex Capital that will be used to advance its pipeline in collaboration with Evotec. Eternygen is a young biotech in Berlin focusing on the treatment of metabolic diseases. The company has now raised €8M in Series A, led by Scottish biotech VC Epidarex Capital. Among the […]

January 9, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

obesity microbiome research kings college

News and Trends 5 Oct 2016

New Link found between the Microbiome and “Genetic Obesity”

Researchers at King’s College London have found a new link between gut microbiome diversity (or, more specifically, the lack of it) and a particularly troubling kind of obesity. This finding could also help explain the inheritability of this disease. The explosive growth of the Microbiome field promises a whole new type of therapies, but this […]

October 5, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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French Microbiome Startup Gets a Series A Funding Boost to Regulate Appetite

Antibody Treatment for Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes enters Phase II

Top European VC and CRO fund Young Metabolic Disease Biotech

New Link found between the Microbiome and “Genetic Obesity”

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