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Best in Biotech 22 Dec 2016

The 10 Biggest Clinical Success Stories of 2016 in European Biotech

What are the most impressive advances in medical biotechnology this year? From cancer to peanut allergy, here's a list of the best success stories of 2016. Biotech is becoming a…

December 22, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 6 Dec 2016

Sanofi Jumps into the Biosimilars Market aiming for Asia

Sanofi is joining the biosimilars trend to challenge Roche's best-selling biological with a partnership that aims to take over the Chinese cancer market. Sanofi is going after the €6.8B ($7.3B)…

December 6, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 7 Nov 2016

Results from 45% of Clinical Trials are kept Secret

A new transparency study has identified Sanofi, Novartis and GSK as the companies that keep the most clinical trial results unreported. TrialsTracker is a tool developed at the University of Oxford…

November 7, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 4 Nov 2016

Roche hits a Speed Bump on the way to a Hemophilia Cure

The Swiss pharma is gearing up for a battle with Novo Nordisk in Hemophilia, but a safety setback might slow its progress. There is a 'bloody' battle in Europe that…

November 4, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 31 Oct 2016

UPDATE: FDA rejects Sanofi’s promising Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug

Sanofi and Regeneron (NY, US) have ruled their phase III clinical trial immunotherapy Sarilumab a huge success. Now awaiting US FDA and EMA approval, the results from the latest study…

October 31, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Oct 2016

The ‘First and Only’ Metastatic Lung Cancer Immunotherapy is approved

Roche's Genentech has received FDA approval for an immunotherapy targeting the highly sought-after PD-L1. The treatment may be able to outperform its competitors in lung cancer therapies. In May, Roche received…

October 19, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 10 Oct 2016

Big Pharmas Battle to be the Lung Cancer Leader at ESMO

Merck, Roche and BMS have unveiled updated results in Copenhagen as the companies duke it out for the leadership in lung cancer therapies. The conference of the European Society of…

October 10, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 21 Sep 2016

German Biotech allies with Genentech in battle for Cancer Vaccine

BioNTech has turned up the heat in the race to bring an mRNA immunotherapy for cancer to the clinic. The German biotech has partnered with American giant Genentech in a…

September 21, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 15 Sep 2016

Roche’s New Antibody is besting the best MS Drug

Roche is poised to blow away the competition for the new multiple sclerosis drug with its leading candidate, Ocrevus (ocrelizumab). Phase III data shows it outperforming Merck's Rebif, the standard…

September 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 4 Aug 2016

Roche drops Partnership for Hepatitis Immunotherapy

While everybody wants to get the next immunotherapy on the market, Roche is turning its back on one. It's leaving the partnership with Inovio, which focuses on developing a DNA-based…

August 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 30 May 2016

Roche debuts new MedTech for needle-free management of Diabetes

Roche is making progress in its Diabetes Care unit. It has struck a deal with the MedTech company Senseonics to sell an implantable glucose sensor in some major European countries. The…

May 30, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 18 Mar 2016

Roche signs a €900M deal with an Immunotherapy Biotech in Boston

Roche (Switzerland) has picked 5 candidates from Blueprint Medicines (US) to complement its leading oncology pipeline. Roche is a leader in cancer therapies, but its position is threatened by intense…

March 18, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 9 Dec 2015

Squeezing Cells: A Revolutionary Cancer Drug Delivery Platform for €455M?

The MIT spin-off SQZ Biotech has an invention (Cell SQueeZe) which could make vector drug delivery in Cancer a thing of the past... Roche thinks so too, and has now acquired…

December 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 23 Oct 2015

#Sorry: The World-leading Oncology Company fails in Phase III

Antibody Drug Conjugate is a smart way to improve chemotherapy. That is the strategy of Roche / Immunogen's drug Kadcyla®, which has just failed in Phase III clinical trial to extend…

October 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 14 Oct 2015

No, Novartis and Roche won’t merge (yet)!

Novartis already owns 33% of Roche, but even if both companies are headquartered in the same city of Basel (Switzerland), they still have no plans to merge. Joerg Reinhardt, The…

October 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 12 Oct 2015

Roche dishes out €509M for a Humanized antibody against Rheumatoid Arthritis

Adheron Therapeutics is a small California (US) biotech which has developed a phase I monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy for inflammatory diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis. Using the mAb humanisation platform…

October 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 9 Oct 2015

TauRX, the leading Alzheimer-focused Biotech, earns funding after Phase II breakthrough

The Tau protein has already been implicated in the onset of Alzheimer's, with many biotechs on the hunt for a preventative therapy. Now, a University of Aberdeen (UK) associated biotech,…

October 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 3 Oct 2015

What Happened this Week? Abbvie abandons Galapagos, CRISPR Patent war to end and AI to exploit UK’s 100k genomes

Monday: AbbVie abandons Galapagos phase III and stock plummets 39% (and still dropping) Tuesday: Will Roche lose it’s Worldwide Leading position in Cancer treatments? Wednesday: CRISPR Patent war to End after the Discovery…

October 3, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Sep 2015

Will Roche lose its Worldwide Leading position in Cancer treatments?

Roche is the worldwide leader in cancer treatments, but it's threatened by the increasing competition of biosimilars and the development of next-generation cancer drugs. Is there a risk for the "biggest…

September 29, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 25 Sep 2015

Roche’s patent halts an Amgen biosimilar debut

Amgen has had great success with its Avastin biosimilar, used as an inhibitor of angiogenesis in tumor growth. However, despite smashing the phase III trials, the Amgen-Allergan partnership still has…

September 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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