Joachim Eeckhout, Author at Labiotech.eu

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Founder & Managing Director at Labiotech.eu. While I was studying biotechnology in Paris, I got frustrated by the lack of digital media available for the industry and decided to fix it! I launched Labiotech.eu in 2014 and grew it to the largest community for biotech professionals in Europe! Other than biotech news, I’m also a heavy reader of Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

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News and Trends 21 Dec 2015

L’Aquila and Italian Education takes Flight with the New Project “GENEration Biotechnology”

The Italian Bio-pharma leader Dompé in the city L’Aquila has launched a new Educational resource program for schools and teachers to promote Biotechnology to the younger generation. Even though Italy has a large and international network of public and state universities and schools offering degrees in higher education, it is always a country associated with a lack […]

December 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 10 Dec 2015

“Structural Biology is changing the way we design drugs”

Structural biology, the study of the structure of biological macromolecules, is becoming a real asset in the drug development process. The PSDI meeting is THE not-to-be-missed event for the experts in this field. Labiotech.eu gives you a glimpse of the last trends discussed during this conference thanks to our exclusive interview with Dr Peter Reinemer, […]

December 10, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 3 Dec 2015

Meet the Company Fighting Autoimmune Diseases with a Novel Immunotherapy

BIO-Europe 2015 was a good opportunity for us to meet people who are playing a key role in the Biotech industry. I had the opportunity to meet Miguel Sieler, CEO of Neovacs, a company that can potentially be the first to develop a therapeutic vaccine for lupus patients! Neovacs is a French biotechnology company developing […]

December 3, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 25 Nov 2015

Why Biotech Companies Should Care About Native Advertising?

Biotech companies are constantly trying to reach consumers online, competing to grab a few minutes of their attention. Native Advertising is opening new opportunities for biotech companies to advertise online. Most of the marketing budgets are moving online. While display ads (banners) were the golden standard for a long time, this practice is rapidly changing. […]

November 25, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 24 Nov 2015

Next Generation Sequencing: the final step to massively adopt Personalized Medicine

For several decades, physicians have been dreaming of a Personalized Medicine, able to treat patients according to their genetic profile. The development of Next Generation Sequencing techniques can be the ultimate step before a massive adoption of personalized medicine. The world of medicine is shifting from the traditional “one size fits all” approach to one […]

November 24, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 23 Nov 2015

Making Propane From Gut-Bacteria: A UK-Finland Team Want to Say Ciao to Fracking

Five genes introduced in the bacterial genome of E.coli can modify its metabolism to synthesise propane, which can be then converted to liquified petroleum gas (LPG) as an alternative source of fuel. Escherichia coli is a facultative anaerobe of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine. An international team of researchers […]

November 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 20 Nov 2015

Cinfa Biotech’s Biosimilar is on the Starting Block!

Recently launched Cinfa Biotech just treated the first subjects in a clinical trial with its biosimilar of Neulasta®! Cinfa Biotech just announced that the first subjects have been dosed in a clinical trial of B12019, a biosimilar version of Amgen’s Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) to treat chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Though chemotherapy is highly effective against cancer, it is […]

November 20, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 17 Nov 2015

Epigenetics Drug Discovery has a New Champion!

Last week at BIO-Europe 2015 in Munich, I had the opportunity to meet Torsten Hoffmann, CSO of Proteros who told me more about the recent incursion of his company in the Epigenetics space! Proteros is a leader of the Structural Biology field. So, what is this field exactly? Usually, when a Pharmaceutical company is looking […]

November 17, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 3 Nov 2015

Potato Plastics! Biodegradable Plastics from Potato Waste

An Italian company specialized in the production of environmentally sustainable materials has created its Minverv PHAs. These are ‘green’ biopolymers with the same thermo-mechanical properties of the substances that make up the traditional plastics, but are instead 100% biodegradable. The goal was to create a plastic that does not pollute the environment and Bio-On, company […]

November 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 21 Oct 2015

The SuperBones; Polymeric Smart Coating Strategy for Titanium Implants

Uppsala University (Sweden) in joint collaboration with Neutron-Scattering experts at the Institute of Laue-Langevin in Grenoble (France) will change the medical world of implants. A new growth-stimulating ‘gel’ will therefore help the body adopt such implants as its own – as man and machine merge! Welding artificial hip joints or making dental implants from titanium […]

October 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 12 Oct 2015

A Sweet idea from Napoli; An Italian start-up will renovate the Artificial Sweetener market

Monellin chain B is an artificial sweetener initially mistaken for a carbohydrate. It has since been established to actually be a natural protein based sweetner which is fairly unstable. iSweetch from the University of Naples has used E. Coli to engineer a more stable version of the protein to revolutionize the artificial sweetner industry. Monellin […]

October 12, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 8 Oct 2015

The Future Biotech Lab Bench: My experience of the cutting edge-tech at LABVOLUTION

Yesterday I went to Biotechnica – one of the biggest events for Lab tech debut in Europe, which took place in Hanover (Germany). One particular exhibition caught my eye – the LABVOLUTION trade fair, exhibiting a live demonstration of a connected laboratory: the ‘smartLAB‘! So it’s been a while since I last worked in a […]

October 8, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Articles by Joachim Eeckhout

L’Aquila and Italian Education takes Flight with the New Project “GENEration Biotechnology”

“Structural Biology is changing the way we design drugs”

Meet the Company Fighting Autoimmune Diseases with a Novel Immunotherapy

Why Biotech Companies Should Care About Native Advertising?

Next Generation Sequencing: the final step to massively adopt Personalized Medicine

Making Propane From Gut-Bacteria: A UK-Finland Team Want to Say Ciao to Fracking

Cinfa Biotech’s Biosimilar is on the Starting Block!

Epigenetics Drug Discovery has a New Champion!

Potato Plastics! Biodegradable Plastics from Potato Waste

The SuperBones; Polymeric Smart Coating Strategy for Titanium Implants

A Sweet idea from Napoli; An Italian start-up will renovate the Artificial Sweetener market

The Future Biotech Lab Bench: My experience of the cutting edge-tech at LABVOLUTION

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