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News and Trends 18 May 2015

Baxter’s spinoff Baxalta is building up its Oncology portfolio

Baxter has purchased Sigma-Tau’s portfolio of cancer treatments for €793.5M ($900 million). With this important acquisition, Baxter is reinforcing its oncology presence by owning Oncaspar, a treatment against acute lymphocytic leukemia. Oncaspar is the only FDA-approved pegylated formulation of L-asparaginase, the enzyme that depletes the aminoacid asparagine. Whilst normal cells can produce asparagine, leukemic cells […]

May 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 May 2015

ZuvaSyntha, a new player in the Industrial Biotech field

UK-based BioSyntha Technology and American ZuvaChem have merged and become ZuvaSyntha, an aspiring new player in the industrial biotechnology field. The new company will focus its resources to commercialize the microbial production of industrial chemicals from inexpensive renewable feedstocks, such as syngas and methanol. ZuvaSyntha, will be based in the UK and will be led […]

May 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 May 2015

Allergist Circassia grabs a couple of Asthma-Specialist companies

The allergy specialist Circassia will acquire two asthma-expert companies: Aerocrine and Prosonix. The British company, which performed the biggest of the fifteen European biotech IPOs in 2014, intends to become a self-sustaining biopharma by focusing on allergies and asthma. The purchases will optimize the launch of CAT-Spire, which represents Circassia’s first drug of a new […]

May 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 17 May 2015

The Miracle Berry which Hacks your Taste Buds to Replace Sugar

Can you name a fruit capable of disturbing your taste buds? For up to two hours, the red miracle berry can transform sour foods like lemon or vinegar, in an amazing sweet taste. It’s a very interesting berry because of its non-caloric property for anti-obesity and anti-diabetes use. This miracle berry that grows in West Africa contains Miraculin, […]

May 17, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 15 May 2015

European companies present their cancer treatment solutions in the USA

Each year, the American Society of Clinical Oncology gathers the cancer therapy developers during five days to present their latest results. Roche seems to be the European winner of this roundup, with amazing results of alectinib in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Roche’s investigational medicine alectinib shrank tumors in nearly half of patients suffering from this […]

May 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 15 May 2015

Ablynx gets tangled up in partnerships with Big Pharma companies

The Belgium-based company is leading more than 20 pre-clinical and clinical programmes with several partners to put the Nanobody technology on the market. Companies such as AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eddingpharm, Merck & Co, Merck Serono and Novartis are part of Ablynx’s dream team. Ablynx is a biotech company developing Nanobodies. Nanobody technology was originally developed […]

May 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 15 May 2015

European Union supports Bavarian Nordic to cure Ebola

Bavarian Nordic has been granted €50M loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support the companies’ pipeline including novel vaccines against Ebola and other infectious diseases as well as cancer immunotherapies. The loan is a three-to-five year bullet loan with fixed or variable interest payment. Bavarian Nordic has up to 18 months to draw […]

May 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 14 May 2015

Eli Lilly signs a €250M deal with BioNTech for new Cancer Immunotherapies

Using immunotherapy to treat cancer is one of the hottest trends in healthcare research right now. The latest collaboration in the field has been announced by Eli Lilly and the German Biotech BioNTech. They will identify and validate novel tumor targets and their corresponding T cell receptors (TCRs) in one or more types of cancer. Cancers figure […]

May 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 14 May 2015

Selecta continues its tour around France with another collaboration

Selecta Biosciences and Généthon are collaborating to enable repeat dosing for gene therapies. The companies are combining Généthon’s expertise in the development of gene therapy vectors and Selecta’s Synthetic Vaccine Particle platform to prevent undesired immune responses. Selecta seems quite fond of collaborating with French companies. After allying with Sanofi, the US-based company has announced […]

May 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 May 2015

Sanofi and Selecta will develop a “Negative Vaccine” for Celiac Disease

Sanofi and Selecta Biosciences are going to extend their three-year-old partnership to develop an immunotherapy for the treatment of celiac disease. Selecta may receive €264M from the biggest French Pharma company, in terms of research support and sales milestones. The two companies are now collaborating on three programs for immune tolerance. In celiac disease patients, […]

May 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 May 2015

Syngenta rejects Monsanto’s €40-Billion takeover offer

Syngenta has rejected Monsanto‘s merger proposal… again. The American colossus made an offer that Syngenta declined, as the Swiss crop developer considered that Monsanto’s €40Bn bid (CHF 41.7 billion) simply was not enough. The gossip started last week as Monsanto may have done a second attempt to buy Swiss Syngenta. Turns out, the rumors were true, but the negotiations lead […]

May 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 May 2015

Axovant banks on GSK’s scrapped project

Last December, Axovant acquired for €4.5M ($5 million) the drug candidate SB742457 from GlaxoSmithKline. Four months later, the company announced its initial public offering to raise up to €154M ($173 million). Why is this newly funded company betting on the leftovers of the Big Pharma? The drug candidate SB742457 is a selective 5-HT6 receptor antagonist, developed as an oral […]

May 13, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Baxter’s spinoff Baxalta is building up its Oncology portfolio

ZuvaSyntha, a new player in the Industrial Biotech field

Allergist Circassia grabs a couple of Asthma-Specialist companies

The Miracle Berry which Hacks your Taste Buds to Replace Sugar

European companies present their cancer treatment solutions in the USA

Ablynx gets tangled up in partnerships with Big Pharma companies

European Union supports Bavarian Nordic to cure Ebola

Eli Lilly signs a €250M deal with BioNTech for new Cancer Immunotherapies

Selecta continues its tour around France with another collaboration

Sanofi and Selecta will develop a “Negative Vaccine” for Celiac Disease

Syngenta rejects Monsanto’s €40-Billion takeover offer

Axovant banks on GSK’s scrapped project

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