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 14 Oct 2015

Innate Pharma receives $5M from its Monster-deal with BMS

This milestone payment from Bristol-Myers Squibb is part of the lirilumab licensing agreement, the monster immuno-oncology deal of €408M ($465M) signed in July 2011. This payment was triggered by the dosing of the first patient in a phase II trial of the monoclonal antibody drug lirilumab, in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory or […]

October 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 14 Oct 2015

No, Novartis and Roche won’t merge (yet)!

Novartis already owns 33% of Roche, but even if both companies are headquartered in the same city of Basel (Switzerland), they still have no plans to merge. Joerg Reinhardt, The Chairman of Novartis – the second biggest Pharma company worldwide by market cap (€212Bn – J&J: €231Bn), was asked about it on the Swiss TV Bilanz […]

October 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 13 Oct 2015

The Top 15 European Biotech VCs

Biotech wouldn’t exist without Venture Capitalists. These investors bring the cash necessary to run clinical trials or conduct the scaling-up of processes, along with many years of experience. Though admittedly Europe definitely hasn’t got as much money floating around as the US, there are many major Biotech VCs in Europe … Here are 15 of […]

October 13, 2015 - 9 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 10 Oct 2015

What Happened this Week? Nobel prize slips through CRISPR’s fingers, inside iGEM’s Jamboree and €120M boost for Alzheimer’s research

Monday: Manfred Horst on MSD, Biosimilars, KEYTRUDA and Merck & Co.’s rich history Tuesday: An Insider’s experience at the iGEM Giant Boston Jamboree 2015 Wednesday: Sorry CRISPR, you’ll have to wait another year to win a Nobel Prize! Thursday: The Future Biotech Lab Bench: My experience of the cutting edge-tech at LABVOLUTION Friday: Alzheimer’s Disease: Phase III breakthrough Tau-therapy earns […]

October 10, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 9 Oct 2015

Key-partnership for the most well-funded Biotech in Berlin

Berlin is growing as a massive Biotech hub, in part thanks to prestigious University of Medicine here (Charité), which is flanked by other world-class institutions (Humboldt University, Technische, Free University of Berlin etc.) and a thriving start-up scene. The most well-funded Biotech here at the moment is Glycotope, a biotech which has raised over €135M […]

October 9, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 9 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Enterome, the Leading French Microbiome Start-up

This week we’ve left the sunny Portuguese coast behind us and arrived in the ‘City of Lights’, Paris. The capital city of France is famous for the Eiffel Tower, fashion and cuisine but what you may not know it is home to Enterome Bioscience, a pioneer in personalized therapies that focus on microbiome related diseases. […]

October 9, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 8 Oct 2015

Labiotech.eu can now fit into your pocket!

And yes, this is the First Smartphone App ever created by a European Biotech Media. Yeah! How we are reading news has completely changed in the last years. Smartphones are becoming the standard to get informed. Smartphones account already for 25% of our traffic alone. So, we decided to work hard during the summer -with our […]

October 8, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 7 Oct 2015

French Government launches a €100M Biotech Fund, Political Nonsense or Wise Investment?

French Health Minister Marisol Touraine visited Eligo Biosciences on Monday, one of the most promising French Biotechs start-ups. Co-founded by young bio-entrepreneurs Xavier Duportet, they inaugurated their brand new office space at Paris’ Institut Pasteur (See our exclusive interview with Duportet here: ‘Meet Eligo’, the Startup which Raised €2M to Redefine Antibiotics using CRISPR’). For the opening, […]

October 7, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 7 Oct 2015

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: DNA Repairing Mechanisms that Keep you Alive

DNA repair mechanisms are crucial to our existence. Without them, we would not survive because of DNA damage caused by the environment (e.g UV light damage, radiation etc.). This crucial research into discovery of three DNA repair mechanisms was led by Thomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar who jointly received this years Nobel Prize […]

October 7, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 3 Oct 2015

What Happened this Week? Abbvie abandons Galapagos, CRISPR Patent war to end and AI to exploit UK’s 100k genomes

Monday: AbbVie abandons Galapagos phase III and stock plummets 39% (and still dropping) Tuesday: Will Roche lose it’s Worldwide Leading position in Cancer treatments? Wednesday: CRISPR Patent war to End after the Discovery of a New Editing Protein other than Cas9? Thursday: Artificially Intelligent ‘Betsy’ will analyse 100,000 genomes for UK Government Friday: Merck relinquishes Rare Disease license to instead […]

October 3, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 2 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Cell2b, the Promising Portuguese Cell Therapy Biotech

As it’s a new month, we thought we would try something a little different on Labiotech.eu. Every week we are going to showcase a company of our choice found on our map. The goal is to keep everybody up to date on all the various biotech and pharma companies that are found throughout Europe. This week […]

October 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 1 Oct 2015

New record: 20 000 people visited us in September!

Hi there, After celebrating our first year, what could be a better news for the beginning of the second year than breaking a new record of traffic?! You were almost 20 000 (19 917 to be precise) different people visiting us during the month of September. That’s fairly awesome!! Thank you for being so many […]

October 1, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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Articles by Philip Hemme

Innate Pharma receives $5M from its Monster-deal with BMS

No, Novartis and Roche won’t merge (yet)!

The Top 15 European Biotech VCs

What Happened this Week? Nobel prize slips through CRISPR’s fingers, inside iGEM’s Jamboree and €120M boost for Alzheimer’s research

Key-partnership for the most well-funded Biotech in Berlin

Biotech of the week: Enterome, the Leading French Microbiome Start-up

Labiotech.eu can now fit into your pocket!

French Government launches a €100M Biotech Fund, Political Nonsense or Wise Investment?

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: DNA Repairing Mechanisms that Keep you Alive

What Happened this Week? Abbvie abandons Galapagos, CRISPR Patent war to end and AI to exploit UK’s 100k genomes

Biotech of the week: Cell2b, the Promising Portuguese Cell Therapy Biotech

New record: 20 000 people visited us in September!

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Catalonia: A biotech hub going from strength to strength, with Barcelona at its core

Top biotech deals of February 2025

Grab your free report on 3D organoids and explore their future potential

These 7 biotechs are shaping the next generation of endometriosis care

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Catalonia: A biotech hub going from strength to strength, with Barcelona at its core

Top biotech deals of February 2025

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These 7 biotechs are shaping the next generation of endometriosis care

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