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News and Trends 30 Sep 2015

Apitope relocates to Wales after €12M series B financing round

Now, as we’ve recently discussed here at Labiotech, there doesn’t appear to be many Welsh biotechs…however, this is all about to change, with major Autoimmune disease focused Apitope relocating it’s HQ to Wales. This is following a €12M series B fundraiser led by the Wales Lifesciences Fund for its monoclonal antibody pipeline. Aptiope are currently […]

September 30, 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 26 Sep 2015

Replimune smashes Oncolytic viral €26.8M series A financing round

Replimune is an Oxford (UK) biotech baby, having only been founded in April this year a spin-off of former US BioVex. Nonetheless, this hasn’t stopped its Series A finance round reaching up to €26.8M. Replimune’s focal research is in developing new immuno-oncology therapies using oncolytic viruses, inspired by BioVex-Amgen’s T-VEC success. Replimune was founded by […]

September 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 23 Sep 2015

British Bionic Pancreas controlled by iPhone to revolutionize Type I Diabetes treatment

It’s finally happened; a research team from the University of Cambridge (UK) has managed to develop a closed loop beta-cell based insulin delivery system for diabetes type I. This bionic pancreas prototype has been constructed for human trials using an iPhone app which monitors blood glucose levels. There are 3 components to the bionic pancreas; […]

September 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 22 Sep 2015

UniQure’s cure for rare Lysosomal disease ready for phase III trial

UniQure from the Netherlands has promising results for its enzyme replacement therapy phase Ib/II trial targeting a rare Lysosomal disease. This has granted fast-track approval to launch its phase III trial for children with Sanfilippo Type B (MPS-III) in collaboration with France’s Institut Pasteur. UniQure is the Amsterdam gene-therapy biotech with a lot going on. Last year […]

September 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 21 Sep 2015

Shire’s Adderall alternative granted EMA approval for EU

Intuniv, Shire‘s new anti-stimulatory product for children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) between 6-17 years old, is set to hit shelves in Europe following successful market approval by the European medicine agency (EMA). Shire, a pharma giant with a €23.5Bn market cap, dominates the ADHD market. Originally from Basingstoke (England), they also have bases in the […]

September 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 16 Sep 2015

Desktop Genetics bags €1.87M from top UK business angels to change how you manage your CRIPSR experiments

Gene Editing has been made much easier thanks to CRISPR but managing your genome editing workflow can be a challenge. London-based Desktop Genetics wants to solve this problem and just raised additional funding to accelerate its development. CRISPR is already considered as the biotech revolution of this century. Having an easy tool is one thing, but being […]

September 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

The 9 EU-based Billion-Euro Biotechs you Should (really) Know

Update 22/10/2015: I added Galapagos from Belgium and Basilea from Switzerland, they deserved it … Talking about billon-dollar companies in the US is such a hype. Even the Wall street journal has its own start-up club (which btw is stunning). By looking at it, I wondered which European Biotechs were worth over €1Bn in Europe. […]

September 15, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 14 Sep 2015

64 million infected: A brief overview of ReViral and its RSV vaccine competition

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) affects millions annually, therefore attracting many large biotechs to research a vaccine. ReViral (London, UK) has secured €18.5M series A investment into its pre-clinical pipeline. VC investors Edmond de Rothschild, OrbiMed and Brace Pharma Capital back this award winning antiviral program, despite an array of competitors. ReViral have got the go […]

September 14, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 12 Sep 2015

London’s Stock Market is on Fire: Two New Biotech Companies are Going Public

After the invasion of the London stock exchange by US-based companies PureTech (€147M raised) and Verseon (€92M raised) last June, it’s now the turn of two EU companies to go public in the British capital. Shield Therapeutics wants to grab a massive £110 million, while Faron Pharmaceuticals had not disclose its intention yet. Faron, based in Turku (Finland), […]

September 12, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 11 Sep 2015

Cambridge Love Triangle: Leading Biotechs Abcam and Horizon finally collaborate together

This is the story of how Abcam and Horizon fell in collaborative-biotech-love and finally came together to partner up on antibody research. Whilst doing his post-doc at University of Cambridge, Jonathan Milner had an idea to improve how antibodies could be produced for researchers around the World. Thus, he founded the company Abcam in 1998. Over […]

September 11, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 9 Sep 2015

Kymab: One Multi-Award Winning Biotech Company Worth Watching!

Kymab is the European biotech to watch! Based in Cambridge (UK), the company has developed the Kymouse platform, with a unique approach to antibody delivery that has allowed this biotech to advance drug and vaccine discovery in a range of key medical research areas including HIV, malaria, cancers and autoimmune diseases. Kymab’s golden egg lies in the […]

September 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Apitope relocates to Wales after €12M series B financing round

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

Replimune smashes Oncolytic viral €26.8M series A financing round

British Bionic Pancreas controlled by iPhone to revolutionize Type I Diabetes treatment

UniQure’s cure for rare Lysosomal disease ready for phase III trial

Shire’s Adderall alternative granted EMA approval for EU

Desktop Genetics bags €1.87M from top UK business angels to change how you manage your CRIPSR experiments

The 9 EU-based Billion-Euro Biotechs you Should (really) Know

64 million infected: A brief overview of ReViral and its RSV vaccine competition

London’s Stock Market is on Fire: Two New Biotech Companies are Going Public

Cambridge Love Triangle: Leading Biotechs Abcam and Horizon finally collaborate together

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