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News and Trends 20 Nov 2015

Cinfa Biotech’s Biosimilar is on the Starting Block!

Recently launched Cinfa Biotech just treated the first subjects in a clinical trial with its biosimilar of Neulasta®! Cinfa Biotech just announced that the first subjects have been dosed in a clinical trial of B12019, a biosimilar version of Amgen’s Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) to treat chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Though chemotherapy is highly effective against cancer, it is […]

November 20, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 10 Nov 2015

The 10 Hottest Bioincubators in Europe

A Bioincubator is a launch-pad structure for entrepreneurs to make their project in the sciences real. In Europe, we have many incubators within each industry, responsible for strategic investment, development and providing a support network for start-ups. Bioincubators are considered as the first ‘home’ for young biotech companies, providing entrepreneurs access to research laboratories, technology platforms, specific […]

November 10, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Nicolas Sainte-Foie

News and Trends 30 Oct 2015

Grifols takes a nice €100M slice for Alzheimer’s from EU €315 Billion Investment Offensive

A huge European action for the next three following years is the European Fund for Strategic Investments (aka the Juncker plan). This consists of a €315 billion Investment Plan to “get Europe growing and more people back to work” (as written on Europa’s website). The Barcelonan Grifols (Spain) is one of the first companies to receive its […]

October 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 30 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Sanifit from Mallorca and its novel take on calcification disorders

This week we say ciao to Milan and head South-West, across the Mediterranean Sea and say hola to the the largest island in the Balearic Islands archipelago, Mallorca. This island is famous for its picturesque white beaches, brilliant weather and being the main vacation destination for the younger generations. It is also home to our […]

October 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

The NeoFood Project: A Basque Coastal Hunt for Algae which produce Essential Fatty Acids

The Neofood project from the Basque Country (Spain) is searching for novel Oceanic strains of algae in salt-marshes around the coast, specifically those that naturally produce essential fatty acids. These algae will serve as an alternative to fish oils for Omega-3 food supplements. A syndicate of Agricultural focused researchers are on the hunt for more […]

October 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 23 Oct 2015

Novartis Monopolises Immuno-Oncology: Three More Biotechs taken Under its Wing

Novartis, the Swiss Biotech giant, has once again broadened its Immuno-oncology portfolio with the acquisition of US Admune Therapeutics (MA) and forming marketing, commercialization and development partnerships with California’s Xoma and Palobiopharma in Barcelona (Spain). Novartis is a Basel giant in the biotech industry, with their research development programs spanning a broad range of fields […]

October 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Oct 2015

Spanish connection: VC leads Biotech series A Fund to cure Rare Neurodegenerative Disease

Minoryx Therapeutics is a Barcelona based Rare-disease specialist who has a panel of orphan-drug experts for their discovery program. Now backed in a €19.4M Series A round from leading VC firms Ysios (No 15 in our top EU VCs) and Roche Venture Fund, Minoryx will have the well-needed cash to push for further R&D of their […]

October 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Sep 2015

Bio-mining the Diversity of Deserts: A Biotech industry Goldmine

Deserts can be either hot or cold according to their geographical location, leading to the evolution of extremophilic organisms which are adapted to withstand such hostile living conditions. Here, we explore some of the potential industrial biotech applications of desert microbes, from bioremediation of pollutants such as PCP, to the investigation of novel anti-cancer compounds. […]

September 28, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 8 Sep 2015

Major EU VCs invest €36.6M into Mallorcan hemodyalisis treatment

Ysios Capital is the leading investor on Baleric Island based Sanifit (Spain) which has developed a new candidate looking to treat Calciphylaxis and patients with renal diseases requiring hemodyalysis. Other lead VCs are looking to also invest, with interest from Forbion Partners (Nl) and Edmond de Rothschild (Fr) to name a few. Its series C […]

September 8, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 1 Jun 2015

CRISPR technology receives the Spanish ‘Nobel prize’

CRISPR continues to amass prizes and to consolidate itself as the biggest discovery of the century. Its discoverers received last Wednesday the Princess of Asturias Award of Technical and Scientific Research. Emmanuel Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, who shared the prize, received €50k. The prize was established in 1980 and consists in a series of annual prizes […]

June 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 15 May 2015

European companies present their cancer treatment solutions in the USA

Each year, the American Society of Clinical Oncology gathers the cancer therapy developers during five days to present their latest results. Roche seems to be the European winner of this roundup, with amazing results of alectinib in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Roche’s investigational medicine alectinib shrank tumors in nearly half of patients suffering from this […]

May 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 4 May 2015

Sygnis on the way to conquer the UK Life Sciences market

Sygnis signed a distribution agreement with Cambridge Bioscience for the commercialization of its proprietary product portfolio in the UK and Ireland. This is a significant expansion of product roll-out into one of the most important life science markets in Europe. Under the terms and conditions of the agreement, Cambridge Bioscience will promote, market, sell and […]

May 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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