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More News! 18 May 2018

New Treatment for Rare Neurologic Eye Disease on Horizon from Spanish Biotech

Spanish biotech Bionure has started an early stage trial of a new drug to treat rare neurologic eye diseases, which also shows promise for treatment of multiple sclerosis and other similar conditions. The therapy (BN201) is the first its class and if successful in clinical trials will be the only treatment that can help repair […]

May 18, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

Startup Scout 6 Apr 2018

Spanish Biotech Uses Microbes to Make Biofuels, Food and Detergents

Today, we’re in Granada, Spain, to visit Neol Bio. The biotech recycles waste to produce oils for biofuels, nutritional supplements and cleaning detergents by culturing microorganisms with waste. Mission: Neol Bio develops sustainable ways of producing oils for a wide variety of applications, from food supplements to cleaning detergents and bioenergy. The company uses high-throughput screening to […]

April 6, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

Spanish Research Stem Cell ALS Treatment

News and Trends 19 Mar 2018

Early Research in Bone Marrow Transplants Could Treat ALS

Early stage research from Spain could lead to a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) using adult stem cells from bone marrow to stop progressive muscle paralysis. Researchers from the Neuroscience Institute at the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) in Elche, Alicante, and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) aim to test a stem cell treatment for […]

March 19, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 7 Mar 2018

This Spanish Biotech Might Have the First Effective Treatment for a Rare Blood Condition

Sanifit has successfully completed a Phase II trial with what could be the first effective treatment for calciphylaxis, a deadly rare disease caused by calcium accumulation in the blood. Mallorca-based Sanifit is targeting calciphylaxis with its treatment called SNF472. Results from Sanifit’s Phase II trial show that the drug promotes wound healing and reduces pain, though the details […]

March 7, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

Startup Scout 2 Mar 2018

This Spanish Biotech Is Developing Stem-Cell Targeted Leukemia Treatments

This week, we’re in Barcelona, Spain, to visit Leukos Biotech, whose goal is to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools for Leukaemia. Mission: Founded in 2015 as a spin-off from the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC), Leukos Biotech has raised €3.5M in funding and has identified a new therapeutic target against leukemic stem cells in acute […]

March 2, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

metabolic disorders chaperones gain thx 1

News and Trends 20 Feb 2018

A New Biotech Hopes to Bring Us the Next Generation of Rare Metabolic Disorder Drugs

Barcelona-based biotech, Minoryx, has spun out Gain Therapeutics to develop the next generation of drugs for rare metabolic disorders like GM1 gangliosidosis. Gain Therapeutics is a new biotech that will focus on developing new pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of rare diseases. It was set up by Minoryx, a biotech that has so far raised over €24M for […]

February 20, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 7 Feb 2018

January Has Been the Best Month Ever for Biotech in Spain

Biotech in Spain has kicked off 2018 setting a record for the number of acquisitions and fundraisings and their total value combined. Early in January, the Japanese big pharma Takeda announced its intention to acquire TiGenix for €520M. The cell therapy biotech was born in 2011 as a merger of Belgian TiGenix and Spanish Cellerix, […]

February 7, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 1 Feb 2018

New Diagnostic Tests On the Way as Qiagen Snaps Up a Spanish Biotech

Qiagen will acquire Spanish biotech STAT-Dx for up to €153M – more than 3 times the total funding it has raised so far – to produce fast and effective diagnostic tests for infections and cancer. Molecular diagnostics company Qiagen has agreed to acquire STAT-Dx, a Spanish biotech that focuses on developing tools to provide fast […]

February 1, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 24 Jan 2018

New Retinitis Pigmentosa Treatments? This Blood-Retina Chip Could Help!

A new ‘organ-on-a-chip’ device for the blood-retina barrier could speed up the development of treatments for eye diseases like retinitis pigmentosa. Researchers from Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have developed a microfluidic chip that mimics the human blood-retinal barrier in the eye. The study, published in Lab on a […]

January 24, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 24 Jan 2018

No Entry! This Protein Could Stop Breast Cancer from Escaping to the Rest of the Body

Spanish scientists have found genes that maintain breast cancer cells in a dormant state, which could be manipulated to control the spread of the disease. The time taken for breast cancer to spread varies among patients and not much is known about the mechanisms that control it. Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine […]

January 24, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 22 Jan 2018

PharmaMar Stock Crashes After Failed Ovarian Cancer Study

PharmaMar’s cancer drug Zepsyre has failed to prove more effective than chemo to treat ovarian cancer in Phase III, leading to a big hit to its stock. Based in Madrid, PharmaMar develops cancer drugs derived from marine organisms. Unfortunately, one of these compounds, lurbinectedin (Zepsyre), has failed to show better efficacy in treating ovarian cancer than chemotherapy in […]

January 22, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Two Proteins in the Brain Could Protect Against and Repair the Damage Caused by Parkinson’s

Researchers have found two proteins that could be used to treat Parkinson’s disease patients by exerting neuroprotective and regenerative effects. Scientists at the University of the Basque Country have found that two neurotrophic factors work in synergy to benefit patients with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. The findings, based on research carried out across a number of studies, […]

January 16, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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New Treatment for Rare Neurologic Eye Disease on Horizon from Spanish Biotech

Spanish Biotech Uses Microbes to Make Biofuels, Food and Detergents

Early Research in Bone Marrow Transplants Could Treat ALS

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This Spanish Biotech Is Developing Stem-Cell Targeted Leukemia Treatments

A New Biotech Hopes to Bring Us the Next Generation of Rare Metabolic Disorder Drugs

January Has Been the Best Month Ever for Biotech in Spain

New Diagnostic Tests On the Way as Qiagen Snaps Up a Spanish Biotech

New Retinitis Pigmentosa Treatments? This Blood-Retina Chip Could Help!

No Entry! This Protein Could Stop Breast Cancer from Escaping to the Rest of the Body

PharmaMar Stock Crashes After Failed Ovarian Cancer Study

Two Proteins in the Brain Could Protect Against and Repair the Damage Caused by Parkinson’s

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