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News and Trends 11 Nov 2014

Ziarco Pharma raises €27M two years after founding

Ziarco Group Ltd, a British biopharmaceutical start-up focusing on inflammatory skin diseases, bags €27M for Series B financing round. This fast-growing 2 year old company already raised €21.4M in a Serie A lead by Pfizer and is now accelerating even more. This second fundraising will enable clinical Phase II Proof-of-Concept studies for ZPL-389, a histamine H4 receptor antagonist […]

November 11, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 1 Nov 2014

Apply to OneStart to win €125k for your life sciences/health care business idea

OneStart, organized by Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable and SR One, GSK’s corporate venture capital arm, is today the world’s largest life science/healthcare startup accelerator. Apply by December 1st, 2014 for the chance to win £100k (€125k) as well as free lab space. Do you have an idea, an entrepreneurial opportunity or have you already started? Discover why you […]

November 1, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Oct 2014

Review : Ebola, The True Story

The first outbreaks of Ebola (also known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) have occurred in isolated villages in central Africa, near tropical forests, but the recent outbreak in West Africa has affected major urban centers as well as rural areas. The Ebola virus disease shows an average fatality rate about 50%. In previous outbreaks, the rate […]

October 30, 2014 - 26 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 15 Oct 2014

New Peptide Technology Against Cancer bags 25 Million Euros

Bicycle Therapeutics, a next generation biotherapeutics UK-based company developing first-in-class bicyclic peptides, announced that it had secured an equity financing of €25 million for the clinical development of therapeutic bicycle drug candidates in oncology. Bicycle has used its proprietary bicyclic peptide technology that enables to discover a new class of drug candidates, which have similar selectivity […]

October 15, 2014 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 30 Sep 2014

New Collaboration for New Cancer Therapies

Medimmune, the global biologics research and development arm of Anglo-Swedish drug major AstraZeneca, has entered into a collaboration to establish a joint lab in Cambridge, UK, with Cancer Research Technology, the commercial arm of Cancer Research UK. The new laboratory will be the first partnership of its kind of both organizations, and will focus on […]

September 30, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 18 Sep 2014

Would you be interested by MinION, the first pocket DNA sequencer ?

The first next-gen sequencing device of the size of an iPhone has been shipped. It is called MinION and is developed by the Oxford-based company Nanopore technologies. The long research and development process has finally paid off. How can a next-gen sequencer hold in a so small device? It uses a newly developed nanopore sequencing method. […]

September 18, 2014 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 17 Sep 2014

Sophia Genetics: the first European bioinformatic company allowed to analyze clinical genetic data

Sophia Genetics has become the first European company to obtain a CE-IVD mark allowing the use of their bioinformatic algorithms to analyse clinical data obtained through Next Generation Sequencing. This certification is an important step in making these in the standard use of routine genetic testing and clinical diagnosis. It brings Sophia Genetics’ world-leading Data Driven Medicine platform to […]

September 17, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 1 Sep 2014

Fighting prostate cancer with a tomato-rich diet

Men who eat over 10 portions a week of tomatoes have an 18 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests. With 35,000 new cases every year in the UK, and around 10,000 deaths, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide. Rates are higher in developed countries, which […]

September 1, 2014 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 27 Aug 2014

Synpromics successfully use synthetic biology in plant science projects

Synpromics, a Scottish-based synthetic biology company today announced that it has successfully generated several highly effective synthetic promoters for use in plants. Dr Michael Roberts, Founder and CSO, said: “We have now shown that our highly disruptive technology platform can be extended from human life science into plant science. Whilst this was always expected, we […]

August 27, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 25 Aug 2014

KalVista start the clinical development of a new treatment for diabetic macular edema

KalVista Pharmaceuticals, an ophthalmology company with a focus on diabetic macular edema (DME), today announces that it has begun a Phase I, First in Human, trial of its novel plasma kallikrein inhibitor, KVD001, for the treatment of DME. The study’s principal investigator is Dr. Jennifer K Sun of the Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center. […]

August 25, 2014 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 19 Aug 2014

GSK abandon its joint drug project with Galapagos

According to Reuters, Galapagos, a Belgian biotech group announced that GlaxoSmithKline has stopped a joint drug development project over concerns about adverse effects. In June 2006, Galapagos signed a broad alliance with GSK to discover and develop breakthrough medicines. This multi-target, multi-year alliance runs from target discovery through to delivery of a clinical Proof of Concept. […]

August 19, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Ziarco Pharma raises €27M two years after founding

Apply to OneStart to win €125k for your life sciences/health care business idea

Review : Ebola, The True Story

New Peptide Technology Against Cancer bags 25 Million Euros

New Collaboration for New Cancer Therapies

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Sophia Genetics: the first European bioinformatic company allowed to analyze clinical genetic data

Fighting prostate cancer with a tomato-rich diet

Synpromics successfully use synthetic biology in plant science projects

KalVista start the clinical development of a new treatment for diabetic macular edema

GSK abandon its joint drug project with Galapagos

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