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News and Trends 17 Dec 2020

Covid-19 Leaves Lasting Impact on Hematology at ASH 2020 Conference

Under the heavy shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, last week’s annual conference of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) displayed the achievements of many innovative treatments for blood conditions, including gene and cell therapies. A sweeping new wave of Covid-19 infections that is forcing new lockdowns across the northern hemisphere is already reshaping the biotech […]

December 17, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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News and Trends 14 Dec 2020

Will Europe Follow Singapore in Approving Cultured Meat?

Singapore is the first country to grant approval to meat grown from animal cells, known as cultured meat. Will European countries follow suit? Eat Just is a San Francisco-based company that sells plant-based alternatives to eggs and other animal products. The firm made headlines last week when it got regulatory approval to market cultured chicken […]

December 14, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Kostas Vavitsas

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News and Trends 9 Dec 2020

The Manufacturing Challenge to Meet Covid-19 Vaccine Demands

Companies developing vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics for Covid-19 are being forced to scale up manufacturing at high speed in order to meet the enormous demand. There has been an unprecedented amount of research carried out over the last year to develop vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tests to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Before Canada gave the […]

December 9, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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News and Trends 7 Dec 2020

Swiss Startup Tackles Tourette’s Syndrome Despite Recent Failures

In spite of recent failures of clinical trials from others in the field, Swiss company Noema Pharma is gearing up to develop better treatments for the neurological condition Tourette’s syndrome. Noema Pharma will use a recent €49M Series A round to bankroll the phase I development of a candidate for Tourette’s syndrome along with the […]

December 7, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 4 Dec 2020

EU Launches Pharma Strategy, Raising Both Hopes and Questions

The public’s response has been cautious after the European Union unveiled a pharmaceutical strategy last week designed to spur domestic innovation and the production of affordable, state-of-the-art therapies. Amid a boom in biotech funding driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Commission (EC) is scrambling to bring its sometimes fragmented pharma regulatory framework up to […]

December 4, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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News and Trends 27 Nov 2020

uniQure Stocks Up With First Phase III Results of Hemophilia B Gene Therapy

Gene therapies for the rare blood clotting disorder hemophilia B have taken a step closer to the market as Dutch developer uniQure became the first to release interim phase III results last week. Hemophilia is an inherited disease caused by mutations to genes encoding blood clotting proteins, resulting in uncontrollable bleeds. In severe cases of […]

November 27, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

News and Trends 26 Nov 2020

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Proves Its Worth in Phase III

A much anticipated Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, achieved 70% efficacy in phase III interim data. While less effective on paper, it could prove cheaper and easier to distribute than its most advanced competitors. Scientists and politicians heartily received the announcement of promising interim clinical trial results from the Covid-19 […]

November 26, 2020 - 4 minutesmins - By Kostas Vavitsas

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News and Trends 23 Nov 2020

SynOx Joins Wave of Biotechs Attacking Solid Tumor ‘Comfort Zone’

The newly founded SynOx has become the latest startup to attack solid tumors via their ‘comfort zone’, known as the tumor microenvironment. SynOx was spun out of the UK firm Celleron Therapeutics last week with a huge Series A round of €37M. The fledgling company is developing an antibody drug that Celleron licensed from Roche […]

November 23, 2020 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 20 Nov 2020

Breakthroughs in Decentralized Testing Could Contain Covid-19

Hospital facilities in Europe are being pushed to their limits as the Covid-19 pandemic continues into winter. Coronavirus testing that doesn’t require a central lab is now arriving on the scene, and it could be the solution to effectively monitor and contain the disease. Despite the recent announcements of promising phase III data on Covid-19 […]

November 20, 2020 - 4 minutesmins - By Kostas Vavitsas

News and Trends 19 Nov 2020

mRNA Stocks Soar with Final Results of BioNTech’s Covid-19 Vaccine

The field of messenger RNA therapeutics is flying high as BioNTech and Pfizer conclude a phase III trial with their Covid-19 vaccine showing 95% effectiveness. The phase III trial recruited over 43,000 volunteers to gauge whether Covid-19 infections could be prevented by a vaccine made out of messenger RNA (mRNA). One group received two doses […]

November 19, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 16 Nov 2020

Innate Immunity in Cancer Gains Recognition with Affimed’s €1.8B Deal

Last week’s €1.75B deal between the German biotech Affimed and Swiss giant Roivant backs up an emerging trend of harnessing our innate immune system to treat cancer. According to the deal’s terms, Affimed will receive €51M upfront to license to Roivant a preclinical-stage antibody drug for several undisclosed types of cancer. Roivant will handle the […]

November 16, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 3 Nov 2020

Kiadis’ Natural Killer Cell Therapies Earn €308M Acquisition by Sanofi

The French big pharma Sanofi has offered €308M to acquire the Dutch firm Kiadis Pharma and get hold of cancer cell therapies based on a type of immune cells called natural killer cells. The offer comes not long after Sanofi inked a deal worth up to €857.5M to license a preclinical-stage cancer cell therapy from […]

November 3, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Covid-19 Leaves Lasting Impact on Hematology at ASH 2020 Conference

Will Europe Follow Singapore in Approving Cultured Meat?

The Manufacturing Challenge to Meet Covid-19 Vaccine Demands

Swiss Startup Tackles Tourette’s Syndrome Despite Recent Failures

EU Launches Pharma Strategy, Raising Both Hopes and Questions

uniQure Stocks Up With First Phase III Results of Hemophilia B Gene Therapy

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Proves Its Worth in Phase III

SynOx Joins Wave of Biotechs Attacking Solid Tumor ‘Comfort Zone’

Breakthroughs in Decentralized Testing Could Contain Covid-19

mRNA Stocks Soar with Final Results of BioNTech’s Covid-19 Vaccine

Innate Immunity in Cancer Gains Recognition with Affimed’s €1.8B Deal

Kiadis’ Natural Killer Cell Therapies Earn €308M Acquisition by Sanofi

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