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News and Trends 23 Jul 2015

Man can See Again thanks to his Bionic Eye

Major Breakthrough in eye research! The world’s first ever dry Age Related Macular Degeneration patient received Second Sight Medical Products’ ‘bionic eye’. Initial tests on the 80-year-old individual with no central vision showed that the treatment allowed him to see the outline of people again. 80-year-old Ray Flynn, from Audenshaw in Manchester, is one of the 20 […]

July 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 23 Jul 2015

Biotech investors are back in Germany

Things are looking good for German Biotechs! At least, this is what the general mood at the international congress organized by the IZB on July 16th and 17th 2015 in Martinsried, near Munich, reflected. A bunch of international investors and decision makers gathered to show that the sector is picking up momentum again in Germany! The Innovation and Startup […]

July 23, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 22 Jul 2015

Sensorion raises an additional €8M to test its inner ear drug

Listen up! French biotech Sensorion just raised €8M through a private placement to advance its inner ear disease drug to Phase II. Since its IPO in April, the value of the company has quadrupled. Sensorion emerged in 2009 as a spin-off of Inserm, the French institute of health and medical research. It specialises in the treatment of […]

July 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Jul 2015

Nanopore cashes in €100M to revolutionize Next-gen sequencing

Personalized medicine is now becoming a reality thanks to next-gen sequencing. Illumina still remains Number 1 in the field, but Oxford Nanopore is on its way up to the top of the charts. The UK-based company raised €100M to become a serious challenger with its cheap and small technology. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a spin out […]

July 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Jul 2015

Adaptimmune’s TCR Therapy Proves its Superiority over its Immuno-oncology Competitors

Adaptimmune Therapeutics, an oxford-based company focusing on the use of T-cell therapies to treat cancer, announced today that data from its Phase I/II study in patients with multiple myeloma has been published in Nature Medicine. This is the first report on TCR engineered T-cell therapy that shows durable persistence in patients! After its successful intoduction on […]

July 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 21 Jul 2015

NASDAQ-listed Biotech from Boston shops cancer-treating antibodies in Italy

A new partnering deal in the trendy field of immune-oncology. Boston-based Agenus signed a €40M deal with Italian Biotech Diatheva to get antibodies, which are targeting a glycoprotein expressed on T cell and NK cell lymphocytes to boost the immune system of patients to fight major cancer. The Boston (Lexington)-based company Agenus went on the NASDAQ […]

July 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 21 Jul 2015

BMS steps into the European Market with its new Lung Cancer Treatment

It’s the first major treatment for metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to have been approved in over a decade in Europe: Bristol-Myers Squibb’s PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor Nivolumab was granted with market authorization by the European Commission. The drug is the first to improve overall survival in previously-treated metastatic NSCLC. Just one month […]

July 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 21 Jul 2015

Genetically Modified Insects: Designed to Cause Extinction

Insects can be very dangerous creatures, spreading diseases and destroying the yield. The British biotech company Oxitec developed a unique approach to potentially wipe out some harmful populations of these tiny animals. Studies on the diamondback moth are already showing good results! Farmers around the world struggle with a serious pest caused by the diamondback moth […]

July 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 20 Jul 2015

InnaVirVax Raises €3.6M to Speed Up its HIV Vaccine

HIV is definitely under the spotlight today. Just after Theravectys’ announcement about its phase I/II success, InnaVirVax completed a third funding round to accelerate its Phase 2 clinical development. The first-in-class immunotherapy designed to treat HIV infections gained further support by all the historical investors in the company. Since 1987, HIV has mainly been treated with a combination of […]

July 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 20 Jul 2015

Theravectys’ HIV Cure on the Road to Success

Theravectys just announced positive results of its HIV drug candidate in a phase I/II study. The therapeutic vaccine using lentivirus could be the first cure available for the 35 million people currently suffering from this worldwide epidemic. Paris-based Theravectys presented detailed results from its phase I/II study at the 2015 Towards an HIV Cure Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. The trial currently enrolled 38 HIV-positive patients […]

July 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 20 Jul 2015

European Biotechs Outperform, Here is the Proof

We underwent great Biotech stories in 2014. However, was 2014 really a good year for the Biotech industry? EY released Beyond borders 2015, its 29th Biotechnology Industry Report. We summed up the most important details for you concerning the European Biotech sector. So, let’s go over a few statistics. First impression, the Biotech industry is definitely […]

July 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 20 Jul 2015

DBV raised €255M on the NASDAQ

[Update 20/07/2015] After successfully closing its Underwritten Public Offering, DBV finally raised €255M ($281,5M) on the NASDAQ. Original article from 16/07/2015: DBV Technologies is going for its second fundraising on the NASDAQ, hoping for €223M. €68.6M were already secured last week from Baker Bros. Advisors LP. The money will allow the company to stay independent all […]

July 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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Man can See Again thanks to his Bionic Eye

Biotech investors are back in Germany

Sensorion raises an additional €8M to test its inner ear drug

Nanopore cashes in €100M to revolutionize Next-gen sequencing

Adaptimmune’s TCR Therapy Proves its Superiority over its Immuno-oncology Competitors

NASDAQ-listed Biotech from Boston shops cancer-treating antibodies in Italy

BMS steps into the European Market with its new Lung Cancer Treatment

Genetically Modified Insects: Designed to Cause Extinction

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Theravectys’ HIV Cure on the Road to Success

European Biotechs Outperform, Here is the Proof

DBV raised €255M on the NASDAQ

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