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News and Trends 28 Oct 2016

TCR and Checkpoint inhibitors: A Match made in Heaven for Blood Cancer

Adaptimmune and MSD are collaborating to test a therapy for multiple myeloma that combines some of the most promising technologies in immuno-oncology: TCR and checkpoint inhibitors. Adaptimmune is an immuno-oncology billion-euro Biotech from the British Golden Triangle. Despite some trouble with the FDA recently, the company continues to forge ahead with its promising TCR technology. Now, […]

October 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 13 Oct 2016

Adaptimmune Revises TCR Protocol following Phase I/IIa Failure

Shares of Adaptimmune slid 12% yesterday morning after the company updated its TCR therapy to include fludarabine, which was linked to deaths in Juno’s CAR-T trials. Despite optimism that T-cells are the key to cancer cures, the field has taken a number of hits this year. Most recently, the FDA put a partial hold on […]

October 13, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 23 Feb 2016

7 Trendy European Biotechs Listed on the NASDAQ in 2016

Here are 7 European Biotechs listed on the NASDAQ we thought were worth mentioning in more depth; location, market cap and brief financial and R&D backgrounds. NASDAQ is the second-largest Stock exchange in the world, based in New York, and the largest for high-tech companies. It seems to be the real test for a European biotech to […]

February 23, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 21 Dec 2015

Here’s my Chat with the CBO of Immunocore, the Only EU Biotech to have ever raised €300M in one Round

Last Thursday at Genesis in London, I had the chance to meet with Eva-Lotta Allan, CBO of Immunocore (and previously from Ablynx). After a last-minute confirmation before the event, we came to meet and it helped me understand why Immunocore could be the next Biotech success-story in Europe… I’m sure you’ve heard of Immunocore this year. This […]

December 21, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 10 Dec 2015

Infographic: The Anatomy of European Biotech

Which part of our body do European biotechs prefer to target? And how diversified are the biotech companies in Europe nowadays? Let’s take the human body to know who works on what. From the brain to the kidney, from Genfit to Cellectis…. Here is an infographic-based overview of some of the target areas that European […]

December 10, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Nicolas Sainte-Foie

News and Trends 9 Nov 2015

Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer

Cell-based Immune-oncology therapies continue to deliver amazing results. After Cellectis wondersaving from last week, Oxford’s Adaptimmune has some surprisingly good results too. Adaptimmune is a British, Oxford-based immuno-oncolgy company. It held a massive IPO last year, raising up to €150M on the NASDAQ, and its CEO was interviewed by BIO (video here) where he seemed […]

November 9, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

The 9 EU-based Billion-Euro Biotechs you Should (really) Know

Update 22/10/2015: I added Galapagos from Belgium and Basilea from Switzerland, they deserved it … Talking about billon-dollar companies in the US is such a hype. Even the Wall street journal has its own start-up club (which btw is stunning). By looking at it, I wondered which European Biotechs were worth over €1Bn in Europe. […]

September 15, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 3 Sep 2015

Adaptimmune Clinical Trials full-steam ahead with GSK investment!

Adaptimmune has had exciting results regarding the ongoing battle with Synovial Sarcoma. GSK looks to further invest in the expansion of the clinical trial to include two further cohorts. Adaptimmune, with a research base in Oxford (UK) and clinical base in Philadelphia (US), has overcome a milestone in their first cohort for clinical stage I/II T-cell therapy. They […]

September 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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 16 Jul 2015

Immunocore Skyrocketed by Europe’s Largest Private Biotech Financing Ever

Immunocore Limited, just announced that it has secured a £205 million financing (€293 m) from private investors to push forward its T cell receptor (TCR) based biological drugs to treat cancer, viral infections and autoimmune diseases. This substantial amount of cash not only embodies the largest private investment ever made in Europe by a biotech company, but also the second […]

July 16, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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