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News and Trends 3 Mar 2015

Calixar Raises €1 Million to License-out its Isolation Technologies

CALIXAR, develops new approaches to isolate in solution – with the highest purity levels – full-length membrane antigens and proteins, whilst keeping their structural and functional integrity. The company announced the completion of its second round of financing with its historical investors, Bpifrance (French public investment bank) and the Banque Populaire. The aim of this […]

March 3, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 2 Mar 2015

Monsanto Reaffirms its Commitment in Europe

While the “Salon International de l’Agriculture 2015” has just closed its doors in Paris, Monsanto, a global provider of leading technology solutions and products that improves farm productivity, reaffirms its commitment to the European market of seeds. Monsanto’s strategy includes investments of €500 million over ten years to develop the company’s production capacity in Europe […]

March 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 28 Feb 2015

The biotechnologies applied to the veterinary science, the markets by 2018

France was the first country where the veterinary studies have become institutionalized through the establishment of the first veterinary schools in the eighteenth century. Veterinary science is vital to the study and protection of livestock, herd health and monitoring the spread of disease. It requires the acquisition and application of scientific knowledge in multiple areas […]

February 28, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 27 Feb 2015

Sanofi: Get Ready for the Launch of the First Inhaled Insulin in the U.S.

Sanofi, the global healthcare leader has core strengths in the field of healthcare due to its seven growth platforms: diabetes solutions, human vaccines, innovative drugs, consumer healthcare, emerging markets, animal health and the new Genzyme. This article will focus on Sanofi Diabetes. In August 2014, our previous article “Sanofi buys Mannkind’s inhaled insulin for €824.5m” […]

February 27, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 26 Feb 2015

SSB’s Ambr Bioreactor Systems Enhanced with Software for Design of Experiments

The French company, Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), announced that the 2015 version of the Ambr systems (Ambr 15 and Ambr 250) will be supplied with integrated BioPAT MODDE Software for Design of Experiments (DoE), powered by Umetrics. This will allow bioprocess scientists to easily implement DoE into their work flow for simpler process optimization and […]

February 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Feb 2015

Ipsen buys an option to Acquire Canbex

Canbex, a spin-off of University College London (UCL) that raised a Series A financing of €2.8M in 2013 from MS Ventures, may become part of Ipsen. The French giant payed €6M upfront for the option to purchase 100% of Canbex shares upon completion of the Phase IIa study of Canbex’s lead candidate for the treatment […]

February 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Feb 2015

Cellectis is preparing its IPO in the U.S

Cellectis is a company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene edited engineered CAR-T cells. The company’s mission is to develop a new generation of cancer therapies based on engineered T-cells. With 15 years of expertise, Cellectis is already listed on the NYSE Alternext market (ticker: ALCLS) and now preparing its IPO to be listed on the […]

February 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 23 Feb 2015

Adimab, the secret weapon of the Big Pharma companies

After establishing discovery collaborations with over 30 companies during the past five years (Roche, Pfizer, Genentech, Novartis, Merck, Lilly, Celgene, Novo Nordisk and GSK), it is today with Sanofi that the biotech company Adimab enters into partnership for the development of bispecific antibodies. Adimab integrated antibody discovery and optimization platform, offers unprecedent speed to purify […]

February 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 22 Feb 2015

Theravectys: an Orphan Drug Designation for Its Lentiviral Vector-Based Therapeutic Vaccine

THERAVECTYS, a fully-integrated discovery and clinical development biotechnology company focusing on the development of therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapy, announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to its therapeutic vaccine candidate for the treatment of Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATL/L). ATL/L is a rare malignancy of a certain type of white cells, T-Lymphocytes, caused by the Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus type […]

February 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 20 Feb 2015

2014, an amazing year for CARMAT

CARMAT intends to overcome the well-known shortfall in heart transplants for the tens of thousands of people with irreversible terminal heart failure. This concerns the sickest of the 20 million patients affected by this progressive disease in Europe and the United States. 2014 was an eventful year for the company, the publication of 2014 annual […]

February 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 19 Feb 2015

Lead Pharma partners with Sanofi to beat Autoimmune Diseases

Lead Pharma is a pharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer. It has entered into a research collaboration with big-shot Sanofi to develop small molecule therapies directed against the nuclear hormone receptor ROR gamma t (RORyt) to treat a broad range of autoimmune disorders. A big news for this Netherland-based Biotech […]

February 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Feb 2015

Neurostimulation, an Innovative Approach to Treat Heart Failure

The revolutionary Equilia system, meant to treat heart failure, has been successfully implanted for the first time in a clinical study . The developer of the system, Sorin Group, is an Italian medical device company, leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Heart failure is a chronic progressive disease in which the heart can no longer […]

February 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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Calixar Raises €1 Million to License-out its Isolation Technologies

Monsanto Reaffirms its Commitment in Europe

The biotechnologies applied to the veterinary science, the markets by 2018

Sanofi: Get Ready for the Launch of the First Inhaled Insulin in the U.S.

SSB’s Ambr Bioreactor Systems Enhanced with Software for Design of Experiments

Ipsen buys an option to Acquire Canbex

Cellectis is preparing its IPO in the U.S

Adimab, the secret weapon of the Big Pharma companies

Theravectys: an Orphan Drug Designation for Its Lentiviral Vector-Based Therapeutic Vaccine

2014, an amazing year for CARMAT

Lead Pharma partners with Sanofi to beat Autoimmune Diseases

Neurostimulation, an Innovative Approach to Treat Heart Failure

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