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News and Trends 3 Dec 2015

Meet the Company Fighting Autoimmune Diseases with a Novel Immunotherapy

BIO-Europe 2015 was a good opportunity for us to meet people who are playing a key role in the Biotech industry. I had the opportunity to meet Miguel Sieler, CEO of Neovacs, a company that can potentially be the first to develop a therapeutic vaccine for lupus patients! Neovacs is a French biotechnology company developing […]

December 3, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 30 Nov 2015

Cellectis’ CEO: “I’m just trying to be realistic, CAR-T is not THE miracle cure for Cancer”

CAR-T is solidifying in everybody’s mind as the next revolution in Cancer treatment. But there is still a lot to do…That’s basically what came out from my discussion with André Choulika, the CEO of the French CAR-T miracle Cellectis. Cellectis is probably the most successful Biotech in France. It was founded in 1999 by Choulika […]

November 30, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 27 Nov 2015

Biotech of the week: PsiOxus, “non-traditional” Immuno-oncology from Oxford

This week we leave Ireland and head South-East across the Irish Sea where we arrive at the ancient city of Oxford, our location of interest. ‘The city of dreaming spires’ is known for it’s world famous university, the Shark House (if you don’t know it, have a search, you won’t regret it :p) and the location for […]

November 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 17 Nov 2015

What will Happen now the Microbiome Hype has Broken into the Immuno-Oncology Field?

The Microbiome and Immuno-Oncology fields are hugely trendy in the Biotech Industry – and now a marriage between the two has finally occurred… The Microbiome field is still very new, with the launch of the US Human Microbiome Project just happening in 2008. Nonetheless, some start-ups are moving fast up the microbiome ranks, as well […]

November 17, 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 4 Nov 2015

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

Sanofi is now the latest Biotech lining up to partner with BioNTech from Mainz (Germany), for license of their mRNA Immuno-oncology platform in a€1.37Bn long-term development deal. Novel mRNA targets in Immuno-onology is a top-shelf cancer R&D area, with Germany’s CureVac also attracting another €100M yesterday for their mRNA platform (which targets lung and prostate […]

November 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 3 Nov 2015

Exclusive from BIO-Europe 2015: Interview of Peter Llewellyn-Davies, CFO at Medigene, Munich-based Immunotherapy Biotech

This is the third interview we publish from BIO (yes, we are working hard). It comes after the interview of Simon Moroney, CEO of MorphoSys and Jane Dancer, CBO of F-star. Medigene is another big/famous Biotech company of Munich, Germany. It was founded over 20 years ago and is now specialised in cell-based therapies. It counts […]

November 3, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 2 Nov 2015

Exclusive from BIO-Europe 2015: Interview of Simon Moroney, CEO of leading German Biotech MorphoSys

BIO-Europe is also a great opportunity to meet with top people from EU’s Biotech ecosystem. I had the chance to interview Simon Moroney, the CEO and one of the founders of MorphoSys (part of our top 9 EU-based billion euros Biotechs). The Munich-based company was founded in 1992 and now counts +-350 employees for a market […]

November 2, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 26 Oct 2015

The First Ever Oncolytic Immunotherapy is Set to Reach the European Market

Amgen is now months away from a European approval with Imlygic (also known as T-VEC) – the first oncolytic immunotherapy for advanced melanoma. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), have reacted positively. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of melanocytes, […]

October 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 23 Oct 2015

Novartis Monopolises Immuno-Oncology: Three More Biotechs taken Under its Wing

Novartis, the Swiss Biotech giant, has once again broadened its Immuno-oncology portfolio with the acquisition of US Admune Therapeutics (MA) and forming marketing, commercialization and development partnerships with California’s Xoma and Palobiopharma in Barcelona (Spain). Novartis is a Basel giant in the biotech industry, with their research development programs spanning a broad range of fields […]

October 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Oct 2015

Secret Shareholder racks up another €19.2M for Affimed’s Cancer Tandem Antibodies

Affimed Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company from Heidelberg (Germany) which is developing highly targeted cancer immunotherapies for some leukemias and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. An undisclosed shareholder has just increased its position in the company by purchasing an additional 3.3 million shares, leading to a total of €19.2M private investment. Affimed Therapeutics is a NASDAQ-listed biotech […]

October 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 16 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

This week, we’re leaving Paris and heading East to a city that’s 9 times bigger than the capital of France, it’s also the city we all call home here at Labiotech, Berlin. When someone thinks of Berlin, they think of the wall, the Fernsehturm (television tower) and its amazing nightlife (I can personally agree with this 😉 […]

October 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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Meet the Company Fighting Autoimmune Diseases with a Novel Immunotherapy

Cellectis’ CEO: “I’m just trying to be realistic, CAR-T is not THE miracle cure for Cancer”

Biotech of the week: PsiOxus, “non-traditional” Immuno-oncology from Oxford

What will Happen now the Microbiome Hype has Broken into the Immuno-Oncology Field?

Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

Exclusive from BIO-Europe 2015: Interview of Peter Llewellyn-Davies, CFO at Medigene, Munich-based Immunotherapy Biotech

Exclusive from BIO-Europe 2015: Interview of Simon Moroney, CEO of leading German Biotech MorphoSys

The First Ever Oncolytic Immunotherapy is Set to Reach the European Market

Novartis Monopolises Immuno-Oncology: Three More Biotechs taken Under its Wing

Secret Shareholder racks up another €19.2M for Affimed’s Cancer Tandem Antibodies

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

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