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Startup Scout 9 Feb 2018

This Polish Biotech Uses AI to Help Others Speed Up Precision Medicine Development

Following on from BioNext’s software last week, we’re in Kraków to visit Ardigen. This biotech develops technology to help us decipher the huge amount of data generated by research. Mission: Ardigen came to our attention when it finished 2nd place in the prestigious NCI-CPTAC DREAM-Proteogenomics Challenge – a competition with more than 500 competitors. Universities and research institutes […]

February 9, 2018 - 1 minutemin - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 29 Jul 2016

Polish Selvita’s Inflammation Research used to start new Biotech in Scotland

The new Biotech Nodthera will be based in Edinburgh and focus on the discovery and development of novel small molecule candidates to treat inflammation in a range of autoimmune diseases. Founded by Epidarex Capital, it will work alongside Selvita (Poland) in a series of deals worth up to €6.35M. The technology behind Nodthera’s focus is built on […]

July 29, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 18 May 2016

Polish Bioinformatics company backs US movement into Microbiome Research

In Kraków, the Bioinformatics company Ardigen has now partnered up with a US based Microbiome startup, EpiBiome, which is looking for the answer to antibiotic resistance. This is another example of cross-Atlantic collaboration in the Microbiome world, just as President Obama pledges €105M ($121M) to the up and coming field of therapeutics. It’s a growing area of research, and as […]

May 18, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 22 Mar 2016

5 Cool Biotechs in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is home to fascinating culture and rising economies, but how is the Biotech scene developing there? Here are some of the companies that caught our eye. Due to popular demand, we have updated the Labiotech Map to also include Eastern European Biotechs – which we published just last month. We were not sure what we were […]

March 22, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 22 Sep 2015

Selvita moves in: The biggest Polish biotech on the Boston Block

Welcome to the US! Polish Selvita has announced its new US HQ in Cambridge (MA), which they hope will better integrate their drug-discovery work into the US market. Selvita, from Krakow (Poland) is the largest Polish biotech with 265+ employees, 86 of which hold PhDs. Having been built on offering pre-clinical services to over 50 US/EU […]

September 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

Will bacteriophages solve the antibiotic resistance problem in the EU?

French Pherecydes Pharma has launched the first EU clinical bacteriophage phase I/II trial to fight hospital acquired infections (HAIs) in military hospitals and burn units. In collaboration with two other French biotechs, the Phagoburn project aims to combat the stigma against human bacteriophage therapies in the EU and US in order to battle the oncoming […]

September 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 8 Jun 2015

Biosimilars will land in Poland thanks to a European loan

Biosimilars will have their Polish guarantor. Polpharma, the largest Polish producer of medicines, is the first benefactor of a €45M loan granted by the European Investment Bank. The loan was granted for research and development of biosimilars and is part of InnovFin, the EU fund for innovators. The production of biosimilars involves numerous difficulties in […]

June 8, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Mar 2015

Life Sciences have a new big player: Joint Polish Investment Fund Management

Poland’s first Institutional Venture Capital Fund dedicated to Life Sciences announced today the first closing of its new venture capital fund at €38.5M. Joint Polish Investment Fund Management (JPIF), headed by Dr. Marek Orłowski, is the first institutional venture capital fund operating out of Poland that is completely dedicated to life science investments. The fund […]

March 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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