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News and Trends 2 Apr 2015

Interview with CELLPROTHERA, the regenerative medicine pioneer

CellProthera is a medical biotech company founded in 2008 in Mulhouse, France. The young innovative company focuses on the use of blood peripheral stem cells. CellProthera is the origin of a revolutionary therapy allowing the regeneration of myocardial tissue following acute myocardial infarct (AMI) by injection of a cell graft containing autologous adult stem cells […]

April 2, 2015 - 7 minutesmins - By Nicolas Sainte-Foie

News and Trends 27 Mar 2015

OSE Pharma raised €21.1 Million

OSE Pharma’s Initial Public Offering couldn’t have been more successful as it just raised €21.1M. Noticing the strong demand for shares, the board of OSE Pharma has increased the price of the capital to €10.80 per share, corresponding to the top of the indicative price range of the offer. On this basis, the market capitalization […]

March 27, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 Mar 2015

With €200 Million, Cellectis is on its way to make the Biggest French Biotech IPO ever

Exactly one month ago, the article “Cellectis is preparing its IPO in the U.S” explained Cellectis prepared an IPO to be listed on the NASDAQ. Yesterday, the company announced the pricing of its initial public offering. Its goal is to raise €197M and up to €226.8M in case of allotment. A large amount of ressources […]

March 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 26 Mar 2015

The Metamorphosis of Biopharmaceutical Innovation #BIO-Europe2015

Innovation can occur in many different ways, and biopharmaceutical innovation is no exception. The pipelines of big Pharmas have fewer candidates, R&D costs are skyrocketing, internal research programs tend to shrink and open innovation is raising. This metamorphosis is happening right now and the plenary session of Bio-Europe Spring 2015 focused on this subject. A great opportunity […]

March 26, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 25 Mar 2015

The Institut Pasteur and IntegraGen, allies to Strengthen High-Throughput Sequencing in Microbiology

IntegraGen and the Institut Pasteur signed an agreement for high-throughput sequencing in the field of Microbiology. IntegraGen will be responsible for the technical and operational implementation of high-throughput sequencing activities for use by the microbiology experts at the National Reference Center (NRC) at the Institut Pasteur. High-throughput sequencing will be the reference tool for analysis, […]

March 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 21 Mar 2015

#BioFigures: 12 Key French Players launch New Immunotechnology Reference Center MI-mabs

WHO? MI-mAbs (“MI” for Marseille Immunopole and “mAbs” for monoclonal antibody) is a new immunotechnology center headed by Prof. Francois Romagne, located at the heart of the Marseille-Luminy Scientific and Technological Park, and designed to accelerate the development of new immunotherapy antibodies against cancer and inflammatory disease. Prize-Winner of the program “Investments for the Future” […]

March 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

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News and Trends 19 Mar 2015

The World’s First €100M Microbiome-focused Venture Fund opened in France

Microbiomics is one of the next big trends in the Biotech industry. Using bacteria present in our guts to cure people has shown more and more potential. The VC industry is now interested in this field. Seventure Partners, the second largest Biotech Venture capital company and the world’s first €100M fund focused on Microbiome is now opening in […]

March 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 18 Mar 2015

Valneva penetrates Chinese Market thanks to a license agreement

A few months ago, the article “An Anglo-French Partnership To Cure Hepatitis B” related Valneva partnerships with Immune Targeting Systems. Today Valneva, a leading pure play vaccines biotech company is again on the front of the stage by announcing the exclusive license agreement with the Chinese company Jianshun Biosciences to commercialize Valneva’s EB66 cell line […]

March 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 12 Mar 2015

Sanofi and its Succesful Pivot from Chemistry to Biotechnology [BIO-Spring 2015]

Sanofi is France’s largest pharma company and the 3rd biggest in the World. The VIP guest of BIO-Europe Spring was Serge Weinberg, Chairman and temporary CEO of Sanofi. You might have been expecting a boring corporate conference with a strong Frenchy-accent English but actually, the talk was extremely clear and interesting. Weinberg went through Sanofi’s innovation strategy as […]

March 12, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 10 Mar 2015

The Promising Company OSE Pharma launches an IPO

Created in 2012 by Emile Loria and Dominique Costantini, OSE Pharma is a European cancer immunotherapy company with a multi-epitope technology named Memopi that directs the body’s immune system to generate a specific cytotoxic T response to prevent cancer cell growth. The company announced the launch of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Euronext’s regulated […]

March 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 10 Mar 2015

Live from Bio-Europe 2015: The product development challenges in the gene therapy field

Gene Therapy is really the hot topic right now in the field of Biotech especially with technologies such as CRISPR and CAR-T therapies. The value of such companies are skyrocketing and many see the field as the next potential blockbuster therapies. Gene therapy has clearly a huge potential but also lot of challenges, let’s go through […]

March 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 6 Mar 2015

Global Bioenergies Produces its First “Second Generation” Isobutene

We already presented Global Bioenergies in our article “Is France leading the European Synthetic Biology-based Biofuel field?”, but as a reminder the company is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons (more specifically isobutene, a building blocks that can be converted into fuels, plastics, organic glass and elastomers) through fermentation. Global Bioenergies annouced having […]

March 6, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Interview with CELLPROTHERA, the regenerative medicine pioneer

OSE Pharma raised €21.1 Million

With €200 Million, Cellectis is on its way to make the Biggest French Biotech IPO ever

The Metamorphosis of Biopharmaceutical Innovation #BIO-Europe2015

The Institut Pasteur and IntegraGen, allies to Strengthen High-Throughput Sequencing in Microbiology

#BioFigures: 12 Key French Players launch New Immunotechnology Reference Center MI-mabs

The World’s First €100M Microbiome-focused Venture Fund opened in France

Valneva penetrates Chinese Market thanks to a license agreement

Sanofi and its Succesful Pivot from Chemistry to Biotechnology [BIO-Spring 2015]

The Promising Company OSE Pharma launches an IPO

Live from Bio-Europe 2015: The product development challenges in the gene therapy field

Global Bioenergies Produces its First “Second Generation” Isobutene

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