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News and Trends 22 Jul 2016

Oryzon develops Epigenetic Therapies against Cancer and Alzheimer’s

This week we’re exchanging a very warm and welcoming country for another. We are heading to Barcelona, the wonderful capital of Catalunya in Spain, to visit Oryzon, our Biotech of The Week and maybe (just maybe) have a little swim in the Barceloneta beach. City: Barcelona (Spain) Founded: 2000 Employees: 35 Financial Data: €81.50M Market Cap (Bolsa de […]

July 22, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 21 Jul 2016

‘Winner Antibody’ holds promise as universal Influenza A Vaccine

MedImmune and Humabs have reasons to be happy. Their candidate for an Influenza A vaccine has made it into well-known journal, Cell, boasting a unique affinity to the virus with multiple mechanisms to stop infection. The promising candidate is MEDI8852, an antibody initially developed by Humabs (Switzerland). It targets Influenza A virus (the group of viruses known as avian flu), […]

July 21, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 21 Jul 2016

Biotech-funded ‘Angels Initiative’ wants to create 1500 Stroke centres across Europe

Boehringer Ingelheim is funding a new initiative to tackle stroke in Europe, a leading cause of disability and death. Together with the European Stroke Organisation, it aims to have 1500 new stroke-ready centres by 2019. Cardiovascular diseases are now the #1 cause of death all over the world, killing an estimated 17.5 million people according to the […]

July 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 21 Jul 2016

UPDATED: French Gene Therapy for Blindness Launches another IPO

Update (21/07/2016): Gensight has successfully completed its IPO, raising €40M. This brings the Biotech’s total market capitalization to near €149M. The option of round oversubscription to €46M is still open. Originally published on 5/7/2016 After canceling its NASDAQ IPO back in April, GenSight is now launching on the Euronext Paris. It wants to raise €40M in total, […]

July 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 21 Jul 2016

Former uniQure and Evotec CEO pushes new viral candidate into Clinical Trials

Hookipa is starting its first clinical trial for a vaccine against human cytomegalovirus. This is the leading candidate of its platform for novel viral vectors, which promises to yield better vaccines for infections and cancer. Based in Vienna, Hookipa was founded in 2011 and is developing a new class of immunotherapies. Its strategy for novel […]

July 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 20 Jul 2016

SynBio Startup moves to Toulouse to scale up its Bacterial Ink Production

Pili is leaving its bio-hacking nest in Paris for the industrial facilities of TWB, Toulouse’s preindustrial demonstrator for industrial Biotech. It will be able to develop pilot-scale production of its first dye – blue… Pili is one of the examples of Biotech innovation coming out of biohacking spaces. The start-up started at La Paillasse (Paris) and went on […]

July 20, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 20 Jul 2016

Israeli Biopharma joins NIH to develop Ebola Treatment

RedHill Biopharma has announced a research collaboration with the NIH. The focus will be RedHill’s new experimental treatment for Ebola, after encouraging results in preliminary studies. The Ebola outbreak of 2014 in West Africa highlighted the need for a therapy against this infectious disease, which has mortality rate ranging from 25% to 90%. The crisis spurred a […]

July 20, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 19 Jul 2016

German Biotech studies Autoimmune Diseases to develop new Therapeutics

Patients suffering from a rare autoimmune disorder could actually be the key for a new promising type of antibodies. These are the findings of researchers from ImmunoQure and different European universities, now published in Cell. More than 40 years ago, the development of monoclonal antibodies really pushed the class of biologics forward. Research on antibodies […]

July 19, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 19 Jul 2016

Poxel raises €26.5M to support Phase III trial in Diabetes

Poxel has closed a capital increase on the Euronext Paris, raising €26.5M. The money is intended to fund its plans to tackle the $4Bn Japanese market for Type 2 diabetes. Biotech is tackling diabetes with many different approaches, from new oral drugs to MedTech and cell therapy. In particular, type 2 diabetes (connected to a […]

July 19, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 18 Jul 2016

UPDATED: Storm on the CAR-T field – 3 patients die in Phase II Study

A CAR-T program in Phase II trials (from Juno Therapeutics) was suspended by the FDA after 3 deaths, which could be treatment-related. How will this impact the field, given that most CAR-T Biotechs share the same target? UPDATE (article originally published on 8/7/2016): the FDA has allowed Juno Therapeutics to resume its CAR-T trial with […]

July 18, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 18 Jul 2016

Switzerland discovers Pomegranate ‘Anti-Ageing’ Effect and founds Biotech

Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have uncovered a molecule in the pomegranate fruit which can prolong the lifespan of animal models. The co-authors who published in Nature went to co-found a biotech Amazentis to develop the wonder molecule into clinical trials. There are many underlying factors to what happens to our bodies as we age. However, […]

July 18, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 18 Jul 2016

How did we increase the online traffic of this Biotech by 289%?

Helping Biotech companies become more visible is what we do every day — here’s a case study of how we successfully helped GEG-Tech. GEG-Tech is specialized in customized design and production of lentiviral vectors. Thanks to our solution, we helped brought more visitors to their website. The campaign was a great success, leading this company increase its sales and close a deal with a […]

July 18, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Oryzon develops Epigenetic Therapies against Cancer and Alzheimer’s

‘Winner Antibody’ holds promise as universal Influenza A Vaccine

Biotech-funded ‘Angels Initiative’ wants to create 1500 Stroke centres across Europe

UPDATED: French Gene Therapy for Blindness Launches another IPO

Former uniQure and Evotec CEO pushes new viral candidate into Clinical Trials

SynBio Startup moves to Toulouse to scale up its Bacterial Ink Production

Israeli Biopharma joins NIH to develop Ebola Treatment

German Biotech studies Autoimmune Diseases to develop new Therapeutics

Poxel raises €26.5M to support Phase III trial in Diabetes

UPDATED: Storm on the CAR-T field – 3 patients die in Phase II Study

Switzerland discovers Pomegranate ‘Anti-Ageing’ Effect and founds Biotech

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