Philip Hemme, Author at Labiotech.eu

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Young French-German Entrepreneur, Co-founder & CEO of Labiotech.eu. High-level table tennis player, and German beer/French Wine lover 🙂

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News and Trends 2 Nov 2015

Exclusive from BIO-Europe 2015: Interview of Simon Moroney, CEO of leading German Biotech MorphoSys

BIO-Europe is also a great opportunity to meet with top people from EU’s Biotech ecosystem. I had the chance to interview Simon Moroney, the CEO and one of the founders of MorphoSys (part of our top 9 EU-based billion euros Biotechs). The Munich-based company was founded in 1992 and now counts +-350 employees for a market […]

November 2, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 2 Nov 2015

How Big can be Small in Biotech – #BIO-Europe 2015 Keynote

As usual at BIO-Europe, the fair starts with an opening keynote, this time with speakers from Merck Healthcare, MedImmune/AstraZeneca and Baxalta. The keynote is basically a discussion between high-level speakers, akin to the talk which took place in Paris during March, when Antoine Papiernik (the prominent European VC from Sofinnova) led a panel discussion with […]

November 2, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 2 Nov 2015

EU’s biggest Biotech Fair, BIO-Europe 2015, is starting … NOW!

The European ecosystem of Biotech will be for the next three days in Munich, Germany. That’s where the BIO-Europe 2015 convention takes place. Yesterday, with Joachim and Will, we drove south from Berlin to Munich to be on-site for the start of the event. This morning, the alarm was set up early and we had to […]

November 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 31 Oct 2015

What Happened this Week? An Incredible Woman, CRISPR deal, CAR-T milestone

Monday: Wow, Europe’s leading CRISPR Biotech signs monster €2.29 Billion Deal Tuesday: Meet the French Woman who started a Biotech to Save her Daughter from a Rare Disease Wednesday: Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome Thursday: Cellectis UCART Milestone: One step closer to a Universal CAR-T Therapy for Blood Cancer Friday: Purple GMO Tomatoes […]

October 31, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Sanifit from Mallorca and its novel take on calcification disorders

This week we say ciao to Milan and head South-West, across the Mediterranean Sea and say hola to the the largest island in the Balearic Islands archipelago, Mallorca. This island is famous for its picturesque white beaches, brilliant weather and being the main vacation destination for the younger generations. It is also home to our […]

October 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

ERRATUM: Celyad’s US patent on TCR-deficient allogeneic CAR-T cells

ERRATUM: I published a first article on Celyad’s new patent on last Tuesday where I made an error of judgement. Celyad’s US patent covers allogeneic CAR-T modified to reduce immunogenicity. In my previous article, I wrote that Celyad stated having obtained the first US patent on CAR-T, which is wrong. Last Tuesday, Celyad announced having […]

October 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 26 Oct 2015

Wow, Europe’s leading CRISPR Biotech signs monster €2.29 Billion Deal

CRIPSR’s hype is not going down yet. CRIPSR/Cas9 or Cpf1 is a revolutionising gene editing tool, which almost won the Nobel Prize of this year (it won nearly all the other biology prizes already). It also caught great interest from the industry and venture capitalists. The leading Biotechs includes: Editas, Boston-based and clozed a $120M found […]

October 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 26 Oct 2015

Financial Storm approaching? EU Biotechs start postponing their IPOs in London …

Biotech financing beats record over record since beginning of 2014. Financing has never been as high in Europe (though of course, we know this has always been the case for the US). Just look at Neil Woodford, famous british investor who raised €1.1Bn for its fund and injected it in many companies like Immuncore (2nd biggest VC round […]

October 26, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 24 Oct 2015

What Happened this Week? Ultimate Cancer Review, Biofuels, Microalgae

Monday: Monster €167M NASDAQ-IPO coming for Swiss Antibiotic Biotech Basilea Tuesday: The Ultimate Review on how Biotech Changed Cancer Treatment Wednesday: “CAR-T / TCR Deserves to have a lot of Money because the Data is Very Exciting” Thursday: Aquanos Algae: Israeli Start-up fixes the Global Sustainability issue in Recycling Sewage Water Friday: #Sorry: The World-leading Oncology Company […]

October 24, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 23 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Genenta Biosciences, a Novel Gene Therapies from Italy

This week we depart from East Germany and head south, through both Liechtenstein and Switzerland to the northern region of Italy, Lombardy. Here we arrive in Italy’s second largest city, Milan. This city is the center of fashion, Italian cuisine and is home to Da Vinci’s, ‘The Last Supper’ however, it is also home […]

October 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 17 Oct 2015

What Happened this Week? Top 15 EU VCs, Roche + Novartis, Algae for Aerospace Biofuel

Monday: Who is the Leader in the Vaccination Ecosystem – is it (still) Europe? Tuesday: The Top 15 European Biotech VCs Wednesday: No, Novartis and Roche won’t merge (yet)! Thursday: Spanish connection: VC leads Biotech series A Fund to cure Rare Neurodegenerative Disease Friday: Bavarian Facility can now grow Global Strains of Algae for Aerospace Biofuel […]

October 17, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 16 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

This week, we’re leaving Paris and heading East to a city that’s 9 times bigger than the capital of France, it’s also the city we all call home here at Labiotech, Berlin. When someone thinks of Berlin, they think of the wall, the Fernsehturm (television tower) and its amazing nightlife (I can personally agree with this 😉 […]

October 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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Exclusive from BIO-Europe 2015: Interview of Simon Moroney, CEO of leading German Biotech MorphoSys

How Big can be Small in Biotech – #BIO-Europe 2015 Keynote

EU’s biggest Biotech Fair, BIO-Europe 2015, is starting … NOW!

What Happened this Week? An Incredible Woman, CRISPR deal, CAR-T milestone

Biotech of the week: Sanifit from Mallorca and its novel take on calcification disorders

ERRATUM: Celyad’s US patent on TCR-deficient allogeneic CAR-T cells

Wow, Europe’s leading CRISPR Biotech signs monster €2.29 Billion Deal

Financial Storm approaching? EU Biotechs start postponing their IPOs in London …

What Happened this Week? Ultimate Cancer Review, Biofuels, Microalgae

Biotech of the week: Genenta Biosciences, a Novel Gene Therapies from Italy

What Happened this Week? Top 15 EU VCs, Roche + Novartis, Algae for Aerospace Biofuel

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

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