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News and Trends 7 Oct 2022

Scientists at IRB Barcelona and PCCB create study model for Ewing sarcoma

Ewing sarcoma is the second most frequent bone tumor in children, adolescents, and young adults. There is no specific treatment for this disease and current management is still limited to surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. The long-term survival of patients with metastatic or relapsed Ewing sarcoma is very low. Ewing sarcoma is caused by a single […]

October 7, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Sep 2022

Grant awarded to help bring to market an innovative treatment for bone cancer

A grant has been awarded to look into the feasibility of bringing to market a new therapy to treat osteosarcoma that aids bone regeneration with fewer side-effects. The European Research Council gave the Proof of Concept grant to professor Cristina Canal from the Technical University of Catalunya’s (UPC) department of materials science and engineering who […]

September 23, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 15 Sep 2022

So much data – Spanish researchers develop The Bioteque to pool biological knowledge

There’s a lot of research going on around the world, and that means lots of data. On a personal level, we’ve seen computer hard drives jump in memory constantly to keep pace with all of the information, bigger images, and so on. Many people have an external drive with 1TB (terabyte) or 2TB of storage. […]

September 15, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Sep 2022

Reveal Genomics reveals more HER2DX breast cancer validation data

Reveal Genomics, S.L. says it has received more validation of HER2DX, the world’s first specialized genomic test for HER2+ breast cancer. Valentina Guarneri from the University of Padova presented the data at the European Society of Medical Oncology Congress 2022 in Paris, France. The data obtained from the analysis of tumor samples from the PerELISA […]

September 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Sep 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 13: BioInnovation Institute, IASP

This week’s guests on the podcast are Bobby Soni, chief business officer at the BioInnovation Institute; and Harriet Edwards, International Association of Science Parks (IASP) media and community manager. We also have our weekly chat with global commercial real estate services company JLL, and this week it is with Travis McCready. IASP to host World […]

September 9, 2022

News and Trends 26 Aug 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 11: Ilya Pharma, IRB Barcelona, Krystal Biotech, Phase Genomics

This week it’s another four interview podcast, and the introduction of a new feature. Our guests are Ilya Pharma CEO and co-founder Evelina Vågesjö and chief financial officer Oskar Lund; Miguel Martín-Álvarez, postdoctoral fellow in the cancer science unit at IRB Barcelona; Hubert Chen, head of clinical development at Krystal Biotech; and Ivan Liachko, CEO […]

August 26, 2022

CRISPR Therapeutics, CRISPR-Cas9, genome editing, biotech

News and Trends 9 Aug 2022

Study says gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9 can lead to cell toxicity and genome instability

CRISPR/Cas9 is a commonly used gene editing technique. CRISPR allows the introduction of a desired DNA sequence into (virtually) any spot of the genome, thus modifying or inactivating a gene. The technique is widely used in biomedical research and some CRISPR-based therapies are in clinical trials for the treatment of human blood disorders, some types […]

August 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 3 Aug 2022

The biggest European biotech investments in July 2022

The mRNA firm Normax Biomed snagged Europe’s biggest private biotech investment in July 2022, with runners-up including AgomAb and Tropic Biosciences. Life sciences manufacturing companies saw a big windfall in Europe in July 2022 as the Cork-based Normax Biomed bagged around $301 million. The firm is establishing modular manufacturing facilities that could provide mRNA vaccines […]

August 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 26 Jul 2022

Catalonia health startup investments in 2022 top €296M to overtake 2021 tally

Life sciences organization Biocat says midyear investment in startups in the BioRegion of Catalonia in Spain is 2.5 times higher than the same period last year, at €296 million ($301 million). The total for the entire year 2021 was €238 million ($242 million). The first semester included a round of €100 million ($101.8 million) by […]

July 26, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

CAR-T cell therapy, cancer therapy, cell therapy

News and Trends 22 Jul 2022

Consortium awarded €4M towards platform for personalized cell therapies

A company developing precision T cell therapies that treat solid tumors announced yesterday (July 21) it is leading a consortium that has been awarded a €4 million ($4.2 million) grant from Horizon Europe. The new consortium is being led by Achilles Therapeutics plc and includes CGT Catapult, Leibniz University Hannover (Hannover) as project coordinator, and […]

July 22, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 21 Jul 2022

Almirall launches new call to find innovative therapies for skin diseases

A new call for new therapies to treat skin diseases has been launched by global Spanish-based biopharmaceutical company, Almirall, S.A. This is the seventh call through AlmirallShare – an open innovation platform for proposals to establish collaborations in dermatological research. The aim of this year’s edition is to find new partnership opportunities for assets in […]

July 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 24 Jun 2022

Second dairy cellular agtech incubator program Mylkcubator opens

Pascual, a Spanish manufacturer of dairy products and beverages, has launched Mylkcubator 2.0, the second edition of its global incubation program for cellular agriculture technologies in the dairy industry. The initiative has been launched from the group’s Corporate Venture unit, Pascual Innoventures, in collaboration with Eatable Adventures, a global foodtech accelerator. Mylkcubator 2.0 will last […]

June 24, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Scientists at IRB Barcelona and PCCB create study model for Ewing sarcoma

Grant awarded to help bring to market an innovative treatment for bone cancer

So much data – Spanish researchers develop The Bioteque to pool biological knowledge

Reveal Genomics reveals more HER2DX breast cancer validation data

Beyond Biotech podcast 13: BioInnovation Institute, IASP

Beyond Biotech podcast 11: Ilya Pharma, IRB Barcelona, Krystal Biotech, Phase Genomics

Study says gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9 can lead to cell toxicity and genome instability

The biggest European biotech investments in July 2022

Catalonia health startup investments in 2022 top €296M to overtake 2021 tally

Consortium awarded €4M towards platform for personalized cell therapies

Almirall launches new call to find innovative therapies for skin diseases

Second dairy cellular agtech incubator program Mylkcubator opens

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