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News and Trends 19 Apr 2016

Drug Discovery moves to Stevenage – the new Golden Triangle hotspot?

MRC Technology, a UK medical research charity, has moved most of its labs to the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) campus. Located inside the gold triangle, is this the new hotspot of UK Biotech? MRC Technology provides drug discovery services, as well as advice for commercialisation and intellectual property management, for academia and industry. Since it was founded […]

April 19, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 19 Apr 2016

French Microbiome Therapy boosted by compound from major US Biotech

Enterome, a leader in the European microbiome field, has struck a deal with US’ Vertex to develop novel small molecules with potential to treat inflammatory bowel diseases. With an impressive roll of partnerships and backed by the world-first Microbiome fund, Enterome is very well-positioned in hype field of the Microbiome. We discussed Enterome’s differentiated strategy […]

April 19, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 19 Apr 2016

GSK goes to phase II with German Antibody for Inflammatory Diseases

GSK has started a phase II trial for inflammatory hand osteoarthritis, with a candidate originally from MorphoSys‘ antibody library. GSK, a big UK Pharma, has announced the start of a phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of its candidate, GSK3196165. The trial will enroll 40 patients with hand osteoarthritis – a condition that damages […]

April 19, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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Best in Biotech 18 Apr 2016

Who are France’s Young Innovators in Biotech and Medicine this year?

The MIT Technology Review has released it’s next generation of best and brightest in French Tech. This also includes a surprising number of Biotech entrepreneurs… The 2016 cohort of French innovators under 35 will now join the ranks of many high risers in the Biotech industry, many of which have gone on to secure funding and […]

April 18, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 18 Apr 2016

UK Drug Discovery sells Cancer Target to German Pharma

Boehringer Ingelheim has bought exclusive rights to an oncology target discovered by Oxford BioTherapeutics and its proteomic database. Oxford BioTherapeutics is a Biotech in Milton Park (near Oxford, UK), developing immunotherapies for cancer with antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) – a strategy to combine the specificity of antibodies to a toxic agent that can be delivered to a cancerous cell. […]

April 18, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 18 Apr 2016

Very promising Results for Resistant Lung Cancer

Ariad has presented updated results of an ongoing phase I/II trial for lung cancer, scoring 100% in one-year overall survival. Ariad Pharmaceuticals is developing small molecules to treat difficult cancers, using computational and structural biology research. It is based in Cambridge (US) and Lausanne (Switzerland). One of the hard-to-treat cancers that Ariad is targeting is […]

April 18, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 18 Apr 2016

ITW: This Biotech Startup wants to fix Youth Blindness with a Gene Therapy

While on a stop in New York, I had a chance to chat with Bernard Gilly, the founder and CEO of the Paris biotech GenSight. I wanted to learn more about the company, which is one of the only examples in the World using Gene therapy to treat specific and rare types of blindness. GenSight […]

April 18, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 17 Apr 2016

BioArt : Feeding the Mind with Thomas Feuerstein’s Living Machines and Green Organs

Thomas Feuerstein is an Austrian BioArtist who sculptures with living organisms and Biotechnology lab equipment – which challenges the mentality of hardcore Green science. Based in Innsbruck, Thomas originally studied Art History and Philosophy. His works started dwelling on Biotech during the 90’s, from when he was part of the Bibliophy project, which ran from 1995 to 2002. This aimed to discuss ideas […]

April 17, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 16 Apr 2016

What happened this week? 18 Top-VCs, CAR-T and CRISPR

1. 18 of the Best European VCs for Biotech in 2016 2. How CAR-T Cells Kill Cancer: Pictures start Moving 3. Meet the CEO who wants to transform Pretty Corals into therapies for Cancer 4. It’s World Parkinson’s Disease Day! #EndParkinsons 5. Modern Biotechnology is now 40 – Happy Birthday! From Inside Labiotech: Secret unveiled: CRISPR […]

April 16, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 16 Apr 2016

First Euronext Biotech IPO of 2016 is Swiss, and for Multiple Sclerosis!

We last wrote about GeNeuro in January, when they announced the launch of an IPO for their Multiple Sclerosis phase IIb trial. Now, as of yesterday they are listed on the Euronext Paris market. GeNeuro (in Geneva) is developing therapies and diagnostic tools for diseases associated with the expression of the human endogenous retrovirus MSRV, such […]

April 16, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 15 Apr 2016

Qiagen Deal to make Genetic Diagnostic Test for Lung Cancer

Qiagen and Mirati will collaborate on the development of a companion diagnostic for a specific type of form of Non-Small Lung Cancer – supporting Mirati’s new therapy. With its operational headquarters near Düsseldorf (Germany), Qiagen is an EU giant in Molecular Diagnostics, and even stepped into the NGS battleground after the acquisition of an important supplier. Qiagen is now entering […]

April 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 15 Apr 2016

Pierre Fabre partners for Open Innovation in Infectious Disease

Pierre Fabre has a new partnership for its Open Innovation programme based on an extensive plant library. It will now count with VibioSphen to develop new phyto-chemicals to fight infectious diseases. Pierre Fabre is the 3rd largest Pharma in France, employing over 10,000 people and generating revenues of over €2Bn. Lately, this mid-sized company made efforts […]

April 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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UK Drug Discovery sells Cancer Target to German Pharma

Very promising Results for Resistant Lung Cancer

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Qiagen Deal to make Genetic Diagnostic Test for Lung Cancer

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