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News and Trends 20 Mar 2015

Let’s Focus on Calypso Biotech, a New Promising Startup that Concentrates on Niche Gastro-intestinal Diseases

Last week, I was in Bio Spring Europe and I met Alain Vicari, Calypso Biotech’s CEO: What is Calypso Biotech? Calypso Biotech discovers and develops antibody therapies for indications in gastro-intestinal diseases. The company tackles on niche diseases, with therapeutic antibodies against difficult targets. Calypso was founded in Geneva, in 2013, as a spin-off of […]

March 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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News and Trends 19 Mar 2015

The World’s First €100M Microbiome-focused Venture Fund opened in France

Microbiomics is one of the next big trends in the Biotech industry. Using bacteria present in our guts to cure people has shown more and more potential. The VC industry is now interested in this field. Seventure Partners, the second largest Biotech Venture capital company and the world’s first €100M fund focused on Microbiome is now opening in […]

March 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Mar 2015

Syngenta corn trait expansion further continues thanks the Vietnamese approval

A few days ago, Syngenta announced that the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved its Bt11 x GA21 double stack corn seed for commercial cultivation in the country. Syngenta, one of the world’s leading companies in the field of Green Biotechnology, have more than 28,000 employees in over 90 countries. The company […]

March 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 18 Mar 2015

Novartis’ Jakavi receives European Commission approval

Novartis received the approval from the European Commission for Jakavi (ruxolitinib) for the treatment of adult patients with Polycythemia Vera (PV) who are resistant to or intolerant of hydroxyurea. Jakavi is the first targeted treatment approved by the European Commission for these patients. PV is a rare and incurable blood cancer associated with an overproduction […]

March 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 Mar 2015

Valneva penetrates Chinese Market thanks to a license agreement

A few months ago, the article “An Anglo-French Partnership To Cure Hepatitis B” related Valneva partnerships with Immune Targeting Systems. Today Valneva, a leading pure play vaccines biotech company is again on the front of the stage by announcing the exclusive license agreement with the Chinese company Jianshun Biosciences to commercialize Valneva’s EB66 cell line […]

March 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 17 Mar 2015

New Oncology finances its Genetic Test for Cancer Diagnosis

New Oncology completed a financing round to prepare the market launch of NEOliquid, a non-invasive blood test that identifies therapeutically actionable genome alterations in the circulating free tumor DNA (ctDNA) of cancer patients. New Oncology’s pan-cancer diagnostic platform NEOplus reliably detects actionable genome alterations from one single patient sample with short turn-around times. In contrast to […]

March 17, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Mar 2015

MISSION Appoints Paul Wallace as Chief Business Officer

Mission Therapeutics, a company focused on the discovery and development of modulators of the deubiquitylating (DUB) enzyme family for the treatment of cancer and other diseases, appointed Paul Wallace as Chief Business Officer. The appointment highlights the scope and productivity of Mission’s drug discovery platform. Dr. Wallace joins Mission to formulate future business strategy at […]

March 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Mar 2015

Against Being Against GMOs: The Golden Rice Story

At the Zurich Life Science Day, I had the pleasure of hearing the keynote speaker, Professor Ingo Potrykus, Professor Emeritus of Plant Sciences at the Institute of Plant Sciences at ETH Zurich and creator of Golden Rice (GR). At 82 years old, he has the liveliness of someone much younger than him. While initially the […]

March 16, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 14 Mar 2015

Promising Collaboration Between Evotec and Second Genome

Evotec AG and Second Genome decided to collaborate in small molecule-based discovery and development activities for the treatment of microbiome-mediated diseases. The collaboration comprises the identification and optimisation of novel compounds as well as licence agreements for already existing assets developed by Evotec. Second Genome’s unique approach to identify and modulate microbiome-mediated pathways will be […]

March 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 14 Mar 2015

Samsung Bioepis Submits a Biosimilar Candidate, to the European Medicines Agency

Samsung Bioepis announced their submission to the to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for SB2, its Remicade (Infliximab) biosimilar candidate. This is the second biosimilar candidate Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) that Samsung Bioepis has submitted to the EMA. The MAA is based on results from an extensive head-to-head preclinical data package comparing SB2 to the originator, a […]

March 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 Mar 2015

Get prepared: Pi day is coming!

Pi day, the unofficial annual holiday commemorating the math constant π, has this year a special significance. It is celebrated on March 14th, or 3/14 in the month/day date format, as the three first numbers of the constant. Furthermore, a sequential time will also happen tomorrow, on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53, when the clock will display […]

March 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 Mar 2015

Orgenesis acquires MaSTherCell

Orgenesis acquired MaSTherCell, an emerging pioneer in the industrialization of cell-based therapeutics based in Gosselies, Belgium, as part of the American company’s plan to increase its global presence and capabilities. The American and the Belgian companies have already been working jointly since last year to scale manufacturing of Orgenesis’ insulin-producing liver cells to fight diabetes. […]

March 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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Let’s Focus on Calypso Biotech, a New Promising Startup that Concentrates on Niche Gastro-intestinal Diseases

The World’s First €100M Microbiome-focused Venture Fund opened in France

Syngenta corn trait expansion further continues thanks the Vietnamese approval

Novartis’ Jakavi receives European Commission approval

Valneva penetrates Chinese Market thanks to a license agreement

New Oncology finances its Genetic Test for Cancer Diagnosis

MISSION Appoints Paul Wallace as Chief Business Officer

Against Being Against GMOs: The Golden Rice Story

Promising Collaboration Between Evotec and Second Genome

Samsung Bioepis Submits a Biosimilar Candidate, to the European Medicines Agency

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Orgenesis acquires MaSTherCell

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