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News and Trends 11 Oct 2021

Longevity Foundation to Fund Geroscience Research with €860M

The newly-created Longevity Science Foundation aims to extend the human lifespan to more than 120 years by channeling over €860M ($1B) into early-stage geroscience research in the next decade. Experts say that’s a worthy if complex goal. Based in Zug, Switzerland, the Longevity Science Foundation will prioritize four areas of research: personalized medicine, therapeutics, artificial […]

October 11, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

News and Trends 7 Oct 2021

Exscientia IPO Attracts Tech Investor Bets to AI Drug Discovery

Exscientia’s lucrative entry onto the Nasdaq last week demonstrated investors are still excited by efforts to use artificial intelligence to fuel drug discovery, with global tech investors often taking the lead. The Oxford, UK-based company Exscientia has one of the most mature artificial intelligence (AI)-focused drug discovery pipelines, alongside companies like BenevolentAI in the UK, […]

October 7, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Mark Zipkin

News and Trends 4 Oct 2021

Non-Viral Gene Therapies Get €51M Boost, Though Challenges Remain

Although most gene therapy still relies on non-infectious viral vectors for delivery, a recent venture financing round for the Swiss company Anjarium Biosciences has shone the spotlight on alternative vectors, including lipid nanoparticles and electric pulses. Last month, Anjarium Biosciences raised €51M (CHF55.5M) in a Series A financing round to advance its gene delivery system […]

October 4, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

News and Trends 1 Oct 2021

Novo Nordisk Foundation Pumps €85M into Carbon Capture Research

As pressure mounts to tackle climate change, the Danish Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted €84.7M to the world’s first research institution dedicated to capturing carbon dioxide from the air and harnessing the gas as a raw material. The new Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center has the mission to efficiently capture, store, and recycle the […]

October 1, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

News and Trends 24 Sep 2021

Breath Testing To Be Tapped by UK Pioneer with €50M Fundraising

After years of under-fulfilled promise, breath tests for cancer, liver disease, and respiratory conditions appear to be taking off with UK biotech Owlstone Medical raking in almost €50M (£42M) in an oversubscribed Series D funding round. The round, whose original target was about €43M, was led by the Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures and was joined […]

September 24, 2021 - 3 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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News and Trends 21 Sep 2021

Europe’s Antibiotic Investments Stagnate As Resistance Crisis Looms

Despite the urgent danger of antibiotic resistance, investments into European biotech antibiotic players have remained flat. However, growing regulatory and societal awareness could spell fresh investments in the coming years. Over the last decade, pressure has been mounting on healthcare systems as infectious microbes become harder and harder to fight with antibiotics. Some strains of […]

September 21, 2021 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 17 Sep 2021

Cell Therapy Firm Raises €64M to Revolutionize Manufacturing

This week’s €64M Series B fundraise from the French firm TreeFrog Therapeutics is the latest in a thriving movement to make the manufacture of gene and cell therapies easier and cheaper. Cell and gene therapies offer huge potential to treat a wide range of diseases including cancer, neurological, and genetic diseases. They have even shown […]

September 17, 2021 - 8 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

News and Trends 15 Sep 2021

UK Startup Surfs Investment Wave in Microbiome with €18M Series A

As increasing attention turns to microbiome-based therapeutics, the Scottish biotech Enterobiotix has closed a Series A fundraising to potentially treat a myriad of medical conditions by improving gut health. Last week, EnteroBiotix raised €18M (£15.5M) in Series A funding to further develop a pill to restore the patient’s gut microbiome to a healthy state using […]

September 15, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

News and Trends 10 Sep 2021

The Top European Biotech Funding Rounds in August

UK and German companies led the European biotech funding race in August, specializing in cell therapy, diagnostics, and RNA-based treatments. With summer in full swing, August was a quieter month than July in terms of European biotech funding. Private biotechs in Europe and Israel — in addition to those going public in an initial public […]

September 10, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 8 Sep 2021

As J&J Vaccine Fails Phase II, the Quest for an HIV Vaccine Continues

Johnson & Johnson became the latest company to have a failed vaccine trial against HIV last week. While it was a great disappointment to many, efforts continue in this space, helped by recent Covid-19 vaccine advances. HIV has been around for decades. While antiretroviral treatments have improved enormously, turning what was once a death sentence […]

September 8, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

News and Trends 2 Sep 2021

AC Immune’s Mixed Phase II Results Buoy Alzheimer’s Research

An Alzheimer’s disease drug developed by AC Immune and Genentech has drawn conflicting phase II results this week, raising tentative hopes for the field of treatments targeting the protein tau. For decades, the major culprit responsible for Alzheimer’s disease was suggested to be the buildup of a protein called amyloid-beta in the brain. Blocking this […]

September 2, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

growth hormone deficiency ascendis pharma

News and Trends 1 Sep 2021

Slow-Release Jab for Child Growth Hormone Deficiency Gets FDA Nod

The FDA has given the green light to Danish company Ascendis Pharma for the first slow-release formulation that provides a weekly alternative to daily injections for children with growth hormone deficiency. For decades, patients with growth hormone deficiency have required tedious daily hormone injections to stave off the effects of the rare condition, including slow […]

September 1, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Longevity Foundation to Fund Geroscience Research with €860M

Exscientia IPO Attracts Tech Investor Bets to AI Drug Discovery

Non-Viral Gene Therapies Get €51M Boost, Though Challenges Remain

Novo Nordisk Foundation Pumps €85M into Carbon Capture Research

Breath Testing To Be Tapped by UK Pioneer with €50M Fundraising

Europe’s Antibiotic Investments Stagnate As Resistance Crisis Looms

Cell Therapy Firm Raises €64M to Revolutionize Manufacturing

UK Startup Surfs Investment Wave in Microbiome with €18M Series A

The Top European Biotech Funding Rounds in August

As J&J Vaccine Fails Phase II, the Quest for an HIV Vaccine Continues

AC Immune’s Mixed Phase II Results Buoy Alzheimer’s Research

Slow-Release Jab for Child Growth Hormone Deficiency Gets FDA Nod

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