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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

News and Trends 24 Jun 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 2: Asabys, Asebio, MOA Foodtech

This week’s podcast is dedicated to Spain. We have conversations with bioindustry association AseBio’s CEO, Ion Arocena; Clara Campàs, managing partner and co-founder of venture capital company Asabys, and Susana Sánchez Gómez, co-founder and chief scientific officer at MOA Foodtech. AseBio, the Spanish Bioindustry Association, brings together and represents the interests of companies, associations, foundations, […]

June 24, 2022

News and Trends 9 Jun 2022

Cocuus raises funds to upscale alt-protein 3D bioprinting technology

Spanish start-up Cocuus has raised €2.5M ($2.7M) in its pre-Series A funding round. The funds will be used to scale up its 3D bioprinting process for producing plant or cell-based animal protein food analogs. The company recently completed the Eatable Adventures acceleration program, one of the top three global accelerators for foodtech start-ups. Eatable Adventures […]

June 9, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Feb 2022

Startup Bags €50M Series A to Smash Gene Therapy Vector Limits

After closing Spain’s largest biopharma Series A round, the company SpliceBio has set its foundations in the gene therapy field and joins the push to deliver bigger therapeutic genes into patients. SpliceBio was founded in 2012 to tinker with a type of protein called inteins, which can stick peptides together to form new proteins. The […]

February 16, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 3 Dec 2021

Sanifit Seals Booming Acquisition Year for Spanish Life Sciences

The takeover of the Spanish firm Sanifit by Vifor Pharma in Switzerland marks a high point for the life sciences sector in Spain, which has seen a burst of acquisitions this year. Last month, Vifor Pharma acquired Sanifit in a deal worth up to €375M, hailed as one of the biggest-ever biotech acquisitions in Spain. […]

December 3, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 18 May 2020

Update: Spanish Food Startup Raises €12M to Grow Healthier Animal Fats

Update (18/05/2020): Cubiq Foods has received a €5M investment from food technology investor Blue Horizon Ventures. With the funds, the startup aims to accelerate the production of its omega 3 fat additives based on cell culture, expecting to launch two products by the end of the year. 31/01/2019 Based in Barcelona, Cubiq Foods is developing […]

May 18, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Startup Scout 24 Jan 2020

This Company is Using Moths to Make Vaccines

Madrid-based company Algenex is using moths as natural bioreactors to improve the speed and scalability of making proteins used in vaccines and diagnostics. Mission: To harness nature for simple, scalable, and cost-efficient recombinant protein manufacture. While many proteins are manufactured using bacteria, some are made using insect cells because these cells are sometimes better […]

January 24, 2020 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 2 Oct 2019

RNA Therapies, Immunotherapies and Cancer Tests Showcased in Spain

Biotech companies around the world gathered in Barcelona, Spain, to present breakthroughs in cancer diagnostics and treatments such as cell therapies and cancer vaccines. Here’s our take on the most interesting offerings from the European crop. Barcelona is the home of Gaudi and Barcelona Football Club. Over the last few days, it was also the […]

October 2, 2019 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Startup Scout 12 Jul 2019

This Biotech Uses ‘Omics’ to Develop Treatments for Drug-Resistant Cancer

Next time you travel to Barcelona, Spain, check out Aromics, a biotech that is using genomics and proteomics to develop treatments for cancers such as malignant mesothelioma, which can be caused by asbestos. Mission: To use omics technology to treat drug-resistant cancers, as well as to identify cancer biomarkers that could improve monitoring in clinical […]

July 12, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Spain biotech ecosystem Sanifit Mallorca

News and Trends 26 Jun 2019

Biotech Company in Mallorca Receives Spain’s Largest Biotech Fundraise

Mallorcan biotech Sanifit has broken the record for the largest private fundraise in the Spanish biotech sector raising a total of €72.2M. The fundraising consists of a €55.2M Series D round plus €17M in convertible bonds. The money will be used by Sanifit to fund an upcoming phase III trial of its lead drug candidate […]

June 26, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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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

Beyond Biotech podcast 2: Asabys, Asebio, MOA Foodtech

Cocuus raises funds to upscale alt-protein 3D bioprinting technology

Startup Bags €50M Series A to Smash Gene Therapy Vector Limits

Sanifit Seals Booming Acquisition Year for Spanish Life Sciences

Update: Spanish Food Startup Raises €12M to Grow Healthier Animal Fats

This Company is Using Moths to Make Vaccines

RNA Therapies, Immunotherapies and Cancer Tests Showcased in Spain

This Biotech Uses ‘Omics’ to Develop Treatments for Drug-Resistant Cancer

Biotech Company in Mallorca Receives Spain’s Largest Biotech Fundraise

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