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News and Trends 27 Feb 2015

Orca Pharmaceuticas Associates with AstraZeneca to Identify Best-in-Class RORγ Inhibitors

Orca Pharmaceuticals, and AstraZeneca embarked on a three year collaboration to develop inhibitors of retinoic acid-related orphan nuclear receptor gamma (RORγ). Inhibitors of this receptor are believed to have potential against a wide range of autoimmune diseases for which there is currently no safe, orally available and effective treatment. RORγ plays a key role in […]

February 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 Feb 2015

SSB’s Ambr Bioreactor Systems Enhanced with Software for Design of Experiments

The French company, Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), announced that the 2015 version of the Ambr systems (Ambr 15 and Ambr 250) will be supplied with integrated BioPAT MODDE Software for Design of Experiments (DoE), powered by Umetrics. This will allow bioprocess scientists to easily implement DoE into their work flow for simpler process optimization and […]

February 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 Feb 2015

Celltrion launches world’s first biosimilar monoclonal antibody in 12 new European markets

Celltrion Healthcare has today announced the launch of Remsima (infliximab) in 12 European markets: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The treatment to the treatment of autoimmune diseases is now available in 31 countries. Remsima, developed by the South Korean company Celltrion, is the world’s first biosimilar monoclonal […]

February 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 Feb 2015

Unstoppable Ferring after the Acquisition of a novel Oral Drug Delivery Technology

Ferring Pharmaceuticals signed an agreement with South Korean CTCBIO to acquire rights to a novel oral drug delivery technology. The Swiss company is growing more and more rapidly with plenty of updates since the begining of the year. Ferring’s success in developing oral formulations for peptide drugs including the world’s first orally active peptide, desmopressin […]

February 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Feb 2015

Ipsen buys an option to Acquire Canbex

Canbex, a spin-off of University College London (UCL) that raised a Series A financing of €2.8M in 2013 from MS Ventures, may become part of Ipsen. The French giant payed €6M upfront for the option to purchase 100% of Canbex shares upon completion of the Phase IIa study of Canbex’s lead candidate for the treatment […]

February 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Feb 2015

Cellectis is preparing its IPO in the U.S

Cellectis is a company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene edited engineered CAR-T cells. The company’s mission is to develop a new generation of cancer therapies based on engineered T-cells. With 15 years of expertise, Cellectis is already listed on the NYSE Alternext market (ticker: ALCLS) and now preparing its IPO to be listed on the […]

February 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 24 Feb 2015

Cobra Biologics and Manchester University Awarded €296.4K

The University of Manchester and Cobra Biologics, biologics and pharmaceuticals manufacturer, have been awarded €296.4K by Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The project is one of the only 23 which will share almost €27.3M given away by the competition that intends to bring innovative biotechnology projects to market. The joint […]

February 24, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Feb 2015

Adimab, the secret weapon of the Big Pharma companies

After establishing discovery collaborations with over 30 companies during the past five years (Roche, Pfizer, Genentech, Novartis, Merck, Lilly, Celgene, Novo Nordisk and GSK), it is today with Sanofi that the biotech company Adimab enters into partnership for the development of bispecific antibodies. Adimab integrated antibody discovery and optimization platform, offers unprecedent speed to purify […]

February 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 22 Feb 2015

Theravectys: an Orphan Drug Designation for Its Lentiviral Vector-Based Therapeutic Vaccine

THERAVECTYS, a fully-integrated discovery and clinical development biotechnology company focusing on the development of therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapy, announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to its therapeutic vaccine candidate for the treatment of Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATL/L). ATL/L is a rare malignancy of a certain type of white cells, T-Lymphocytes, caused by the Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus type […]

February 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 21 Feb 2015

Succesfull Phase II for Novo Nordisk’s new diabetes treatment

Good news for diabetes mellitus type 2 patients, as Novo Nordisk announced positive results for phase II trial with oral semaglutide. Novo Nordisk successfully completed the phase II trial for OG217SC, an oral formulation of the longacting GLP-1 analogue semaglutide. Confirming the primary end-point of the trial, all doses of oral semaglutide were statistically significantly […]

February 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 20 Feb 2015

GNA Biosolutions Leads the Consortium for Ultra-Fast Detection of Ebola

The ultra-fast diagnostic instruments developer, GNA Biosolutions (GNA), started the FILODIAG (Filovirus Diagnostics) project for developing a high-speed Ebola detection system based on GNA’s novel Laser PCR technology. There is an urgent need for fast and accurate diagnostic tests in the current and any future Ebola crisis. The rapid diagnosis of Ebola during early and […]

February 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 20 Feb 2015

2014, an amazing year for CARMAT

CARMAT intends to overcome the well-known shortfall in heart transplants for the tens of thousands of people with irreversible terminal heart failure. This concerns the sickest of the 20 million patients affected by this progressive disease in Europe and the United States. 2014 was an eventful year for the company, the publication of 2014 annual […]

February 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Orca Pharmaceuticas Associates with AstraZeneca to Identify Best-in-Class RORγ Inhibitors

SSB’s Ambr Bioreactor Systems Enhanced with Software for Design of Experiments

Celltrion launches world’s first biosimilar monoclonal antibody in 12 new European markets

Unstoppable Ferring after the Acquisition of a novel Oral Drug Delivery Technology

Ipsen buys an option to Acquire Canbex

Cellectis is preparing its IPO in the U.S

Cobra Biologics and Manchester University Awarded €296.4K

Adimab, the secret weapon of the Big Pharma companies

Theravectys: an Orphan Drug Designation for Its Lentiviral Vector-Based Therapeutic Vaccine

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