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News and Trends 15 Apr 2016

Pierre Fabre partners for Open Innovation in Infectious Disease

Pierre Fabre has a new partnership for its Open Innovation programme based on an extensive plant library. It will now count with VibioSphen to develop new phyto-chemicals to fight infectious diseases. Pierre Fabre is the 3rd largest Pharma in France, employing over 10,000 people and generating revenues of over €2Bn. Lately, this mid-sized company made efforts […]

April 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 15 Apr 2016

Biotech of the Week: ThromboGenics & Therapies against Eye Disease

This week, we say Auf wiedersehen to Vienna and move on to the North west. Leuven, the capital city of the Flemish Brabant province in Belgium, fairly close to the country’s capital Brussels. And it is also where ThromboGenics, our Biotech of The Week is located. City: Leuven (Belgium) Founded: 1998 Employees: 85 (including US) Market cap: […]

April 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 14 Apr 2016

We met the Biotech with the First & Only US Approved Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the US, but Epigenomics could dramatically improve this sad figure. A problem Berlin-based Epigenomics want to solve and just got a significant milestone: an FDA approval for commercialisation. I met with Thomas Taapken, the CEO of the company, in his office in Berlin, a nice historical building with 4 meters ceiling […]

April 14, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 14 Apr 2016

European Biotech teams up with US Navy to engineer Military Materials

Evolva will join the US Navy to make new materials with its biosynthetic molecules – which could make it into aircrafts and ships. Evolva is a Synthetic biology Biotech headquartered near Basel (Switzerland), but with offices and R&D also in Denmark. It has developed its yeast platform to produce high-value chemicals via fermentation. So far, […]

April 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 14 Apr 2016

Meet the CEO who wants to transform Pretty Corals into therapies for Cancer

The dream of Coral Biome in France is to use marine coral species to develop therapies against Cancer. We had the chance to meet Fréderic Gault, the co-founder and CEO. With an Education in biology followed by a specialism in aquaculture engineering, Fréderic immediately understood the importance of corals and their therapeutic potential in human health. […]

April 14, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

News and Trends 13 Apr 2016

Mobile Pancreas to Change Life of Diabetics in New EU Programme

A new €4M European project brings a mobile insulin pump from France, computer models from Romania, and research from the UK & Spain together, in order to improve living with diabetes. Cellnovo, a MedTech split between France and the UK, was selected to participate in a new diabetes project funded by Horizon 2020, the EU grant […]

April 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 13 Apr 2016

Leading Biotech VC in Europe Raises over €180M

Forbion has raised €183M for its 3rd capital fund – a big win for this top-notch Dutch VC, especially when stock markets are getting ever less friendly. Forbion is one of the best European VCs in Europe for Biotech. Based primarily near Amsterdam (it also has offices in Munich), it is probably a factor in […]

April 13, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 13 Apr 2016

A New Cellular ‘Back Door’ has been found to fight Malaria

Paris & Strasbourg (France) researchers have discovered an ‘Achilles Heel’ for malaria: A specific molecule the parasite needs from the host. Could this spawn a new generation of Parasitic disease drugs? Malaria is a parasitic disease that was responsible for over 400,000 deaths worldwide just in 2015, according to the WHO – especially in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the current […]

April 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 12 Apr 2016

What sort of Biotech Startups are coming out of Italy at the moment?

BioUpper in Milan has launched the first acceleration platform for new entrepreneurs in the field of biotech and Medicine. Here are 3 of the winners awarded €50,000 each in funding. The project is funded by Novartis and Fondazione Cariplo – the Italian cultural and Scientific grant foundation now worth over €8Bn. The aim of the project is to enhance promising projects and finance […]

April 12, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 12 Apr 2016

How CAR-T Cells Kill Cancer: Pictures start Moving

CAR-T is a groundbreaking personalized cancer therapy with tremendous potential to drive the patient’s own immune cells to specifically target and kill cancer cells. Because the development of this therapy is still in the early phase, new tools are needed to provide a quick potency assay to assess the cytotoxicity of the therapeutic T-cells prior […]

April 12, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 12 Apr 2016

How was the Biotech Financial World in 2015? Unprecedented!

Biotech is still breaking funding records. A new report by EY provides an interesting analysis of how Biotech is doing, globally and in Europe. Although 2015 was the best for Biotech yet, but there is a slowdown coming – that’s the gist of EY’s recent report: ‘Beyond borders 2016: Biotech financing‘. This well-known auditing and […]

April 12, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 11 Apr 2016

Modern Biotechnology is Now 40 – Happy Birthday!

Genentech has turned 40 years old this month – quite a milestone for the pioneer of modern biotechnology, which is still rocking it in San Francisco, US. It all began with an experiment conducted by a team led by Herbert Boyer of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), studying antibiotic resistance plasmids in E. […]

April 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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