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News and Trends 20 Feb 2015

2014, an amazing year for CARMAT

CARMAT intends to overcome the well-known shortfall in heart transplants for the tens of thousands of people with irreversible terminal heart failure. This concerns the sickest of the 20 million…

February 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 19 Feb 2015

Lead Pharma partners with Sanofi to beat Autoimmune Diseases

Lead Pharma is a pharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer. It has entered into a research collaboration with big-shot Sanofi to develop small molecule therapies…

February 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 Feb 2015

#BioFigures: 3,000 whole genomes sequenced to fight Parkinson!

WHO? 23andMe, founded in 2006, is the leading personal genetics company dedicated to helping people access, understand and benefit from the human genome. The vision for 23andMe is to personalize…

February 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

News and Trends 18 Feb 2015

Highway to Brain

Researchers in Barcelona have developed a shuttle to transport drugs into the brain, running through the blood-brain barrier. If there is an irreplaceable organ, for the moment, that’s the brain. The…

February 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Feb 2015

Great news for Great Britain’s synthetic biology

British government will inject the impressive amount of £40M to reinforce UK’s leading position in synthetic biology. UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced a £40M investment in UK synthetic…

February 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 14 Feb 2015

GlycoVaxyn: A new Gain for GSK’s Vaccines Business

GSK, who was already a minority shareholder in GlycoVaxyn, acquires the company and its biological conjugation platform which may help it to develop a new generation of prophylactic vaccines against…

February 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Feb 2015

Neurostimulation, an Innovative Approach to Treat Heart Failure

The revolutionary Equilia system, meant to treat heart failure, has been successfully implanted for the first time in a clinical study . The developer of the system, Sorin Group, is an…

February 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 11 Feb 2015

Hello Tomorrow Challenge, the startup competition with €100k to win!

The second edition of the Hello Tomorrow Challenge has been launched in December 2014. This is a great opportunity for startups, students and researchers to transform their innovative technologies into…

February 11, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 11 Feb 2015

AB Science: One step further towards a cure to Alzheimer’s disease

AB Science SA, a pharmaceutical company specialized in research, development and marketing of protein kinase inhibitors (PKIs), today announced the successful completion of a futility analysis related to the masitinib…

February 11, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 10 Feb 2015

Is Pichia Pastoris the Best Protein Expression System?

Producing biologicals in living expression systems is a big challenge for the Biotech industry. World leaders in the field are betting on a new yield-enhancing expression technology using the yeast Pichia pastoris. Escherichia…

February 10, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 7 Feb 2015

Fermentalg launch an Omega-3 enriched oil produced by microalgae

Six years after the creation of the company, Fermentalg, an industrial biotechnology company that specializes in the production of oils and proteins derived from microalgae, has received the European Novel Food…

February 7, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 6 Feb 2015

2014, the Biggest Year Ever for European Biotech IPOs

There is no need to say it: biotechnology is the latest trend. A worldwide bio-boom has shaken stock markets throughout 2014. For European start-ups, last year represented a remarkable step…

February 6, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 4 Feb 2015

And now, Moderna signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur

Moderna is the Biotech company that raised the biggest VC round ever ($450M) and which signs deals almost every week. It signed a $50M deal with Merck two weeks ago, and…

February 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 3 Feb 2015

AYOXXA raises its sights with a new agreement to develop ophthalmic diagnostic tools

New agreement was signed between AYOXXA, an international biotech company with headquarters in Cologne, and the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), one of the leading international eye research institutes. AYOXXA…

February 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 2 Feb 2015

Will 4D Pharma be UK’s next Microbiome leader?

4D Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on significant new therapeutic areas, plan to raise €46M to continue the development of its drugs candidates and to exploit its microbiome platform MicroRx. Will 4DPharma…

February 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 1 Feb 2015

Phenex sells out its main programme to Gilead

Gilead Sciences announces the acquisition of Phenex Pharmaceuticals’ development program for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and other liver diseases. Gilead Sciences and Phenex Pharmaceuticals announced the signing of a definitive agreement…

February 1, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 31 Jan 2015

An Anglo-French Partnership To Cure Hepatitis B

European biotechnology company Valneva and UK company Immune Targeting Systems (ITS) announced that they have signed an exclusive worldwide commercial license agreement. This deal grants ITS the rights to research,…

January 31, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 30 Jan 2015

The Human Protein Atlas: exploring human geography

Some 20 years ago, before the genomic era, isolating a protein and identifying the tissue where it was present was enough to get a PhD. Swedish researchers just did it…

January 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 27 Jan 2015

Italian Genenta Science’s Original Strategy to Treat Cancer

Tumor microenvironment, including tumor-associated macrophages, plays a key role in controlling tumor progression and response to therapies. It stimulates tumor growth, supports angiogenesis and tissue remodeling, as well as neutralizes…

January 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 Jan 2015

Is Gecko’s Bio-inspired Glue going to revolutionize Heart Surgery and Tissue Repair?

Imagine you could use a glue to fix a hole or week zone inside your body. Sound promising? Definitely. A new generation of adhesive has been discovered. It can be…

January 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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