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 20 Aug 2015

Lundbeck dismisses 1,000 employees to stay competitive

Lundbeck’s new CEO Kåre Schultz completely restructures the company to regain profitability. About 1/6th of the company’s employees will have to leave for that reason. In May, former president and COO of Novo Nordisk Kåre Schultz became the new president and CEO of Lundbeck. The Danish drugmaker was struggling at that time because the patent of its blockbuster […]

August 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 20 Aug 2015

DNA to play an essential role in the future of Computers?

You can do terrific things with DNA – convicting a murderer, confirming the right father … and building computers! As biomolecular computing is ever-growing, scientists from the University of East Anglia found a new way to convert DNA in a switching mechanism. This could be used in new bio-computers built from DNA. The structure of […]

August 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Aug 2015

Sobi gets a long-lasting grip on a rare type of Hemophilia

In the 19th century, Queen Victoria passed the Hemophilia B to diverse royal houses of Europe. Today, its characteristic heavy bleedings can be treated quite well, as Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi) and its partner Biogen showed in the results of an ongoing long-term study. Sobi was formed in 2001 through a fusion of several units […]

August 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Aug 2015

Paris is Europe’s biggest Biocluster, but nobody knows it …

Paris is well-known for being the most beautiful city in the world. But did you also know that it concentrates most of the French Biotech industry and is Europe’s biggest biocluster? If not, why didn’t you know? The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame and so many other monuments makes Paris outstanding and unique. But Paris […]

August 19, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Aug 2015

Top 5 Biotech Books to Enjoy your Summer on the Beach

Summer is a great time to read books and get inspired for the year to come. Here’s a Top 5 list of my recommendations to read before summer ends. 1. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech Genentech is considered the founder of the Biotech industry in the late 80s. It started from breakthrough science, crazy scientists and very risk-taking […]

August 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 18 Aug 2015

New mAb-treatment Improves the Life of European Children with Neuroblastoma

The European Commission granted marketing authorisation for United Therapeutics‘ Unituxin for the treatment of neuroblastoma in patients aged 12 months to 17 years. In Europe, approximately 1500 patients are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, the most common cancer in children. Some patients – the low-risk and intermediate risk group – are favored by an excellent prognosis with cure rates […]

August 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 18 Aug 2015

Not only Genes matter, Cellular Origin determines the Cancer Type

Cancer occurs in uncountable forms, and we are far away from understanding all the mechanisms that lead to its variety. For example, did you know that not only the mutated gene is responsible for the emerging of a certain type of cancer but also its cellular origin? That’s what researcher from Belgium and Australia just […]

August 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 18 Aug 2015

Fresh money for Kuros to Speed up Bone repair

Kuros Biosurgery raised CHF15 million (€13.8M) to bring its late stage bone-repairing agents to the market. A second financing round is already planned for later this year. Bones can suffer a lot during surgeries, sports or severe accidents. To accelerate its healing, Swiss Kuros has established a late stage pipeline of bone-repairing agents. The company was […]

August 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 17 Aug 2015

What if the Best Coffee could be obtained thanks to Biotechnologies?

French bioengineers Camille Delebecque and Sophie Deterre founded the food Start-up Afineur in New York to revolutionize coffee. You may have heard of the Kopi Luwak or Civet Coffee from Indonesia. If not, it’s a very special coffee and one of the most expensive with prices reaching €550/kg. The raw coffee beans are eaten by Asian Palm […]

August 17, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 15 Aug 2015

The Sky is the Limit: Novo Nordisk continues to rise

The world’s leading insulin supplier, Novo Nordisk, turns in a superb performance in the first six months of 2015. Sales revenues increased, two IIIa trials were successfully completed and two new treatments are now available on the huge diabetes market of the US. We visited Denmark for our last Labiotech tour. We knew Novo was […]

August 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 14 Aug 2015

Milestone in Stem Cell Research: European Researchers grow Millimeter-Long Muscle Fibers!

Stem cell research grows and grows in Europe! For the first time ever, researchers succeded to effectively grow a large number of muscle cells derived from pluripotent stem cells! Researchers from six European countries are participating in the PluriMes project to give a cutting edge to the European stem cell research. Launched in February 2014, […]

August 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 14 Aug 2015

Roche’s €382M Acquisition to Expand its Fight against Drug-Resistant Bacteria

The biggest biotech company worldwide has just become even bigger: Roche acquired the Californian GeneWEAVE BioSciences, a privately held company that developed a cool technology to diagnose drug-resistant bacteria. For the integration, Roche shells out $190M (€171M) upfront and up to $235M (€211M) product-related milestones. GeneWEAVE is an American company that developed a technology which is […]

August 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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Articles by Philip Hemme

Lundbeck dismisses 1,000 employees to stay competitive

DNA to play an essential role in the future of Computers?

Sobi gets a long-lasting grip on a rare type of Hemophilia

Paris is Europe’s biggest Biocluster, but nobody knows it …

Top 5 Biotech Books to Enjoy your Summer on the Beach

New mAb-treatment Improves the Life of European Children with Neuroblastoma

Not only Genes matter, Cellular Origin determines the Cancer Type

Fresh money for Kuros to Speed up Bone repair

What if the Best Coffee could be obtained thanks to Biotechnologies?

The Sky is the Limit: Novo Nordisk continues to rise

Milestone in Stem Cell Research: European Researchers grow Millimeter-Long Muscle Fibers!

Roche’s €382M Acquisition to Expand its Fight against Drug-Resistant Bacteria

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

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

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