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News and Trends 11 Apr 2017

Illumina Enters Europe to Take Over the Prenatal Diagnostics Market

Illumina has launched its NGS-based non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) in Europe and is ready to position itself as the top dog in this competitive market. The US next-generation sequencing (NGS) giant Illumina has launched its VeriSeq NIPT Solution in the EU today. It’s an NGS-based kit that allows for rapid testing of the fetal chromosome status using a single maternal […]

April 11, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

Mission Therapeutics Parkinsons research grant

News and Trends 11 Apr 2017

New Grant to Advance a Whole New Treatment Against Parkinson’s in the UK

Mission Therapeutics has received a grant to support the development of a novel approach to treating Parkinson’s that is attracting top partners worldwide. Right on time for World Parkinson’s Day today, Mission Therapeutics has announced it has been awarded a research grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation in the US. Named after its founder, the star of […]

April 11, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 10 Apr 2017

The Biggest European Medtech Exit of 2017 Just Happened

The medtech company Symetis, specialized in heart valve replacements, today announced its acquisition by Boston Scientific in a hefty €411M ($435M) deal. Symetis is a Swiss medtech company and one of the key players on the European transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) market. After launching a promising €55M IPO on Euronext Paris in March, the company has now […]

April 10, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 10 Apr 2017

Swiss-Danish Collaboration will use Synbio to Produce a B Vitamin

Two startups in the fields of synthetic biology, Biosyntia and FGen, have struck a partnership to identify promising microbial strains. The objective is to find a strain that enables bioproduction of a B vitamin. The driving force of this new partnership between Biosyntia, Denmark, and ETH Zurich, and brands itself as a CRO for biologics […]

April 10, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 6 Apr 2017

This New Biotech counts with the Largest Antibiotic Resistance Database

Curetis has launched Ares Genetics, a company that will use the biggest antibiotic resistance genetic database to advance the diagnose of infections. Ares Genetics, the new subsidiary of Curetis, will investigate the genetic foundation of antibiotic resistance to develop new approaches for the rapid diagnose of specific resistance in patients with infections, as well as tools to […]

April 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 6 Apr 2017

Evotec and Sanofi Hit the First Milestone for a Diabetes Cell Therapy

Evotec and Sanofi have achieved preclinical proof-of-concept for a new beta cell therapy for diabetes, triggering a €3M milestone payment from Sanofi. In 2015, Sanofi and the German CRO Evotec partnered to jointly develop a beta cell replacement therapy for the treatment of diabetes in a deal that could reach more than €300M in potential milestone payments. […]

April 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 6 Apr 2017

Biotech Targeting Tau-Tangles in Neurodegeneration Initiates Clinical Trials

Swiss Asceneuron has received regulatory approval to start its first Phase I trial of ASN120290, which is indicated for the treatment of dementia. Asceneuron was founded in 2012 as a spin-off of Merck Serono’s Alzheimer’s drug discovery portfolio. Its key asset ASN120290 is an inhibitor of the O-GlcNAcase enzyme and is indicated for the treatment of diseases associated […]

April 6, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 6 Apr 2017

UPDATE: Norwegian Stock Exchange hits Record Biotech IPO

UPDATE (06/04/2017): BerGenBio has raised €43.55M, successfully beating a biotech record on the Norwegian stock exchange and setting its market cap at €135M. UPDATE (28/03/2017): BerGenBio has announced that the IPO could run up to €44M on Oslo Børs. It could become the Norway stock exchange’s biggest IPO in biotech, and indeed €44M would make it […]

April 6, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 6 Apr 2017

How is Biotech Transforming Pharma’s R&D Model?

Since the early 2000s, pharma has undergone a major reorganization. What roles do strategic alliances and acquisitions play in this new model? For almost two centuries, medicinal products have brought continuous therapeutic progress. This path is marked by breakthrough innovations, which now allow us to treat diseases previously believed to be incurable. But to bring about […]

April 6, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Heptares AstraZeneka AZD4635 checkpoint inhibitor

News and Trends 5 Apr 2017

Heptares Takes Home €11M for its Next-Generation Checkpoint Inhibitor

Heptares Therapeutics has achieved a new milestone in its immuno-oncology collaboration with AstraZeneca triggering an €11M payment from AstraZeneca. Heptares has announced the wrap-up of its preclinical programme for a new checkpoint inhibitor, AZD4635 that reverses adenosine-mediated T cell suppression and enhances anti-tumor immunity. The British company will now receive an €11M ($12M) milestone payment from AstraZeneca, who obtained exclusive global rights […]

April 5, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 5 Apr 2017

Planning a Clinical Trial – Think Smart Design

By using smart designs, sponsors can save time and money while optimizing the knowledge accrued during the development of their products. “Traditional” study designs and statistical methodology do not allow changing the main features of a study protocol once the study has been initiated. The use of interim analyses, and in particularly the development of […]

April 5, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 4 Apr 2017

Sample a More Efficient Sorbent to Streamline your mAb Purification

Need an efficient way to purify your antibodies but struggle to find the best column? Pall Life Sciences is giving you the opportunity to try their solution for free. Enter your email below and receive your KANEKA Protein A sorbent sample! Pall Life Sciences is giving you a chance to try for free the new, […]

April 4, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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Illumina Enters Europe to Take Over the Prenatal Diagnostics Market

New Grant to Advance a Whole New Treatment Against Parkinson’s in the UK

The Biggest European Medtech Exit of 2017 Just Happened

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