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News and Trends 16 Aug 2016

GSK Pioneers Money Back Guarantee for Biotech Treatments

The second-ever gene therapy to get European approval finally has a price tag. It will be sold at ‘only’ €594k, but with a twist – it has a money-back guarantee. Could this strategy finally get gene therapies some sales action? In May, GSK finally got European approval for a gene therapy, after sparking the resurgence […]

August 16, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 2 Aug 2016

Google and GSK invest €630M to create a new Bioelectronics Champion

GSK and Verily Life Sciences are creating a new company together, Galvani Bioelectronics. Along with €630M in investment, it’ll inherit intellectual property to pioneer a new class of therapies – bioelectronic medicines. GSK is one of the big Pharma based in Europe and has had a strong presence in many hype fields of medical Biotech. Examples are […]

August 2, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 26 May 2016

GSK teams up with US Money to found new Biotech

GSK and Avalon Ventures are having success with the Biotechs created under their collaboration. Sitari Pharmaceuticals and Silarus Therapeutics have achieved their first milestones, and there’s a 8th Biotech in the making. As part of its innovation hunting in the US, English big Pharma GSK had struck a collaboration with Avalon Ventures and formed an ‘undercover incubator’ of sorts. […]

May 26, 2016 - 2 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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News and Trends 17 Mar 2016

GSK partners to Scale Manufacturing of CAR-T Therapies

Production of CAR-T therapies seems to be one of the biggest challenge of this promising technology. Miltenyi Biotec (Germany) and GSK have entered a new partnership to combine the clinical development of cell and gene therapies with manufacturing expertise. Milteniy is a German company of 1600 employees developing products for biomedical research and cellular therapy. It’s not the first […]

March 17, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 4 Feb 2016

Zika Virus: Who in Biotech is Working to Stop its Spread?

The Zika virus epidemic could infect up to 4 Million people. As a cousin to Dengue Fever, what are the risks? Who in the Biotech and pharma world are working on a vaccine? And what is exactly this virus which has everyone hot and bothered? Literally meaning ‘overgrown‘ in the Luganda language, the Zika Virus name comes from the […]

February 4, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Nicolas Sainte-Foie

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News and Trends 2 Feb 2016

New €210M Life Sciences Fund is Launched in UK

Medicxi Ventures, Formerly Index Ventures Life Sciences, Launches as an Independent Venture Capital Firm and Announces Closing of a €210M Fund including GSK and Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Medicxi Ventures is based in London, Geneva and Jersey and has been investing in the Life Sciences field for over 20 years. It comprises all of the legacy portfolio […]

February 2, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 27 Jan 2016

New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas

AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and the 3 world-leading universities (Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Cambridge) have joined forces to found the ‘Apollo’ Bridge. This pioneering new joint venture, the Apollo Therapeutics Fund, will support the translation of ground-breaking academic science from within these universities into innovative new medicines for […]

January 27, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 22 Dec 2015

Dutch Organ-on-Chip Biotech Hauls in €1.5M Funding from Pharma Syndicate in Project Against Animal Testing

Mimetas from Leiden (NL) has now been financed to develop an Organ-on-Chip (tissue model) to specifically test Neurotoxicity, as a piece of medtech to help clinical trials move away from Animal testing… Organs-on-Chips are microfluidic tissue models which mimic basic organ-to-organ coupling. Developed with the aim of simulating ADMET testing and drug screening in vitro, […]

December 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 27 Nov 2015

Could this new TCR Lung Cancer Trial Save Adaptimmune from a Volatile Stock Situation?

Adaptimmune has initiated a phase I/II safety and tolerability study of its affinity enhanced T-cell therapy targeting the NY-ESO-1 cancer antigen in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Adaptimmune is developing the affinity enhanced T-cell therapy targeting the NY-ESO-1 antigen under a collaboration agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Located in Oxford (UK) this clinical stage […]

November 27, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 9 Nov 2015

Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer

Cell-based Immune-oncology therapies continue to deliver amazing results. After Cellectis wondersaving from last week, Oxford’s Adaptimmune has some surprisingly good results too. Adaptimmune is a British, Oxford-based immuno-oncolgy company. It held a massive IPO last year, raising up to €150M on the NASDAQ, and its CEO was interviewed by BIO (video here) where he seemed […]

November 9, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Oct 2015

For when it actually is Lupus: New Autoimmune Crisis Drug reaches Human Trials

ArGEN-X from Ghent (BE) and Breda (NL) has initiated its phase I human trials for Auto-immune diseases such as systemic lupus erythmatosus (SLE) – a rare chronic disease which has had little progress in the last 50 years. Here is the story behind SLE… As a rare disease, Dr. House and his fictional diagnostics team […]

October 22, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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GSK Pioneers Money Back Guarantee for Biotech Treatments

Google and GSK invest €630M to create a new Bioelectronics Champion

GSK teams up with US Money to found new Biotech

GSK goes to phase II with German Antibody for Inflammatory Diseases

GSK partners to Scale Manufacturing of CAR-T Therapies

Zika Virus: Who in Biotech is Working to Stop its Spread?

New €210M Life Sciences Fund is Launched in UK

New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas

Dutch Organ-on-Chip Biotech Hauls in €1.5M Funding from Pharma Syndicate in Project Against Animal Testing

Could this new TCR Lung Cancer Trial Save Adaptimmune from a Volatile Stock Situation?

Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer

For when it actually is Lupus: New Autoimmune Crisis Drug reaches Human Trials

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