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News and Trends 25 Jul 2022

Bavarian Nordic gets European monkeypox approval for smallpox vaccine

Danish company Bavarian Nordic A/S says the European Commission (EC) has extended the marketing authorization for the company’s smallpox vaccine, IMVANEX, to include protection from monkeypox and disease caused by vaccinia virus. The approval, which follows a positive opinion by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) on July 22, 2022, is valid […]

July 25, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Jul 2022

FMC dips into pheromone crop protection with $200M BioPhero acquisition

FMC Corporation, an agricultural sciences company, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire BioPhero ApS, a Danish pheromone research and production company. The acquisition adds biologically produced pheromone insect control technology to FMC’s product portfolio and R&D pipeline. BioPhero has pioneered a yeast fermentation process for manufacturing pheromones at lower costs and with fewer production […]

July 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Jun 2022

Evaxion Biotech picks candidate for lung cancer trial

A clinical-stage biotech company that specializes in developing AI-driven immunotherapies has chosen its product candidate for an upcoming clinical trial for patients with advanced lung cancer. Evaxion Biotech selected EVX-03 within its DNA technology platform to target a new indication based on what it said are very encouraging results from pre-clinical studies. EVX-03 is optimized […]

June 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 21 Jun 2022

Biotalys and Novozymes partner on biofungicide

Belgian agtech company Biotalys and Danish biotech company Novozymes have entered into a partnership to expand opportunities for Evoca, Biotalys’ first proprietary biocontrol product. Novozymes will explore additional routes for the upscaling and production of the bioactive protein of Evoca, with the option of a possible commercial collaboration for a future generation of the product. […]

June 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Jun 2022

Report shows growth of life sciences sector in eastern Denmark

A new report on the Danish contribution to the Medicon Valley has been published. The report, Life Science in Eastern Denmark – The Danish Part of Medicon Valley is a survey of companies in the sector. Medicon Valley spans the Danish region of Zealand and the Capital Region, and the Skåne region of southern Sweden. […]

June 6, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 20 May 2022

Zealand Pharma’s drug for rare metabolic disease smashes phase III

After a year of slumping stock prices, Zealand Pharma is striking back, as its peptide drug improved blood sugar control in infants with the rare disease congenital hyperinsulinemia in a phase III trial. In late 2020, the Danish firm Zealand Pharma A/S hit a big obstacle when its peptide drug dasiglucagon failed to treat the […]

May 20, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 29 Apr 2022

Denmark Recruits Lifebit to Boost Personalized Medicine with Genomics

The Danish National Genome Center has teamed up with the UK firm Lifebit to improve the access and sharing of genomic data as the nation moves towards the adoption of personalized medicine. Personalized medicine is capturing the attention of healthcare authorities across the world. By harvesting genome sequences from patient populations, researchers can mine vast […]

April 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 13 Jan 2022

Biotech Startup Incubators Prepare to Cash in on Record VC Funding

Venture capital funding broke records in the biotech industry in 2021. Leading startup incubators from across Europe share their plans to make the most of this trend in 2022, with expectations for big returns and expansion in the works. In spite of financial volatility resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the year 2021 broke records for […]

January 13, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 1 Oct 2021

Novo Nordisk Foundation Pumps €85M into Carbon Capture Research

As pressure mounts to tackle climate change, the Danish Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted €84.7M to the world’s first research institution dedicated to capturing carbon dioxide from the air and harnessing the gas as a raw material. The new Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center has the mission to efficiently capture, store, and recycle the […]

October 1, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

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News and Trends 1 Sep 2021

Slow-Release Jab for Child Growth Hormone Deficiency Gets FDA Nod

The FDA has given the green light to Danish company Ascendis Pharma for the first slow-release formulation that provides a weekly alternative to daily injections for children with growth hormone deficiency. For decades, patients with growth hormone deficiency have required tedious daily hormone injections to stave off the effects of the rare condition, including slow […]

September 1, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 23 Aug 2021

Behind the Scenes at Novo Seeds: Building Startups from the Ground up

Søren Møller, Managing Investment Director at Novo Seeds, discusses how the firm’s investment strategy has changed over time to support the creation of biotech startups in the Nordics. Søren Møller has a PhD in molecular biology from the Technical University of Denmark. After spending some time as a postdoc at Stanford University in the US […]

August 23, 2021 - 9 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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News and Trends 20 Jul 2021

Danish Dementia Startup Launches Amid Maturing Nordic Biotech Scene

Muna Therapeutics debuted with the Danish biotech sector’s biggest-ever Series A round earlier this month. This showcases the rapid growth taking place in the biotech industry in the Nordic region. Muna Therapeutics’ €62M ($73M) investment was co-led by the Danish investor Novo Holdings through its early-stage arm Novo Seeds. The startup was first set up […]

July 20, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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