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News and Trends 24 Mar 2023

Microbiome therapeutics biotech mbiomics raises €13M

mbiomics GmbH, a German microbiome biotech company developing the first generation of effective microbiome-based therapeutics has closed €13 million ($ 15 million) of a series A financing round led by MIG Capital. High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital joined the funding round together with a pool of private seed investors. mbiomics uses its proprietary, tailored high-resolution […]

March 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

Flare Therapeutics sees $123M oncology boost

Flare Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company targeting transcription factors to discover precision medicines for cancer and other diseases, has announced a $123 million Series B financing. The financing was co-led by GordonMD Global Investments LP and Pfizer Ventures, with participation from existing investors Boxer Capital, Casdin Capital, Eventide Asset Management, Invus Financial Advisors, Nextech Invest […]

March 23, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 8 Mar 2023

Should pharma be listening to social media to drive drug development?

By Thierry Escudier, consultant and strategic leader at The Pistoia Alliance The move towards patient centricity is gathering momentum, and digital technology is playing a huge role in this shift. Decentralized clinical trials that employ mobile apps and wearable devices to monitor patients and make results gathering easier are a particularly successful example of how […]

March 8, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 28 Feb 2023

Life changing treatments for rare disease – a beacon of hope

By Sander Slootweg, managing partner, Forbion More than 300 million people around the globe are affected by a rare disease. This number does not even take into account the impact on these individuals’ support units that includes family, friends and caregivers. A rare disease is defined as a disease that affects no more than 1 […]

February 28, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 24 Feb 2023

Researchers discover how tumor cells become resistant to colorectal cancer chemotherapy

Platinum-based chemotherapy, which is used to treat advanced colorectal cancer, accumulates in the healthy cells surrounding the cancer cells and, as a result, can reduce tumor sensitivity to treatment. This is demonstrated by a study published in the journal Nature Communications by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), in collaboration with […]

February 24, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Feb 2023

Certa scleroderma study shows improvement in more than 60% of patients

Certa Therapeutics has announced what it says are ground-breaking clinical trial data for FT011, its novel therapy for the treatment of serious inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. Certa Therapeutics has recently completed a global phase 2, multi-centre, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study of the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamic effects, and safety, of oral FT011 in patients with scleroderma. […]

February 7, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 1 Feb 2023

Expanding the world of biomarkers with proteogenomics

By Michael Pisano, executive vice president, proteomics, Discovery Life Sciences In oncology, characterizing genetic markers is a powerful tool, but it only tells part of the story. A burgeoning field called proteogenomics is helping uncover downstream biomarkers that represent the functional changes resulting from gene expression that will launch research and development of new, targeted […]

February 1, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 1 Feb 2023

Advancing cancer care with 3D genomics

By Oxford BioDynamics Cancer care is in urgent need of effective tests to determine the best approach for personalized medicine. Practical, new solutions exploiting the power of 3D genomics are emerging. Cancer is a vastly complex, multidimensional disease marked by the uncontrolled proliferation of cells. Many intertwined layers of biological systems give rise to the […]

February 1, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Sysnav and Roche partner on movement tracking technology

Sysnav Healthcare and Roche have partnered to develop industry standard outcome measurements in diseases associated with movement impairments, as well as designing the next generation of wearable technology based on Sysnav’s technology. Patients living with a neuromuscular disorder often suffer from movement impairments that fundamentally impact their daily life. Reliable, objective measurements of a patient’s […]

January 26, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

CytoReason expands deal with Sanofi to look at IBD

CytoReason, which creates computational disease modeling, has announced an expansion of its collaboration with Sanofi. The multi-year collaboration will further fuel Sanofi’s target discovery efforts via CytoReason’s AI platform in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), to identify patient subtypes and pair them with IBD targets. In 2021, Cytoreason announced the initiation of a […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Jan 2023

Netherlands Cancer Institute to use Proscia platform

Proscia, a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has announced that the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), one of the top 10 comprehensive cancer centers in Europe, will deploy its Concentriq Dx platform. NKI is transitioning to Proscia’s Concentriq Dx to expand its digital pathology practice, so its pathologists can deliver personalized diagnoses that better […]

January 19, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Jan 2023

Vésale Bioscience receives €1.8M grant for AMR phage project

Belgian company Vésale Bioscience has received €1.8 million ($1.9 million) in grants from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Fund for its PhageDiag project, a phagogram using artificial intelligence that enables decentralized diagnostics and personalized treatment. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top 10 global public health […]

January 18, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Microbiome therapeutics biotech mbiomics raises €13M

Flare Therapeutics sees $123M oncology boost

Should pharma be listening to social media to drive drug development?

Life changing treatments for rare disease – a beacon of hope

Researchers discover how tumor cells become resistant to colorectal cancer chemotherapy

Certa scleroderma study shows improvement in more than 60% of patients

Expanding the world of biomarkers with proteogenomics

Advancing cancer care with 3D genomics

Sysnav and Roche partner on movement tracking technology

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Vésale Bioscience receives €1.8M grant for AMR phage project

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