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News and Trends 4 Apr 2016

Biotech Environment in 2016: Reverse Engineering the Ecosystem #BES2016

BIO-Europe Spring 2016 is starting off right away with the plenary opening session. The conference was about partnering, trends and opinion from both Biotechs and Pharma… This was the list of pretty impressive speakers: How are Big Pharma positioning themselves in 2016? J&J clearly wants to open up more to the outside of the organisation, […]

April 4, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 10 Mar 2016

The Largest Scandinavian Biotech Fundraising of 2016 has just been Signed

Aprea (Sweden) is not a well-know Biotech (yet), but has succeeded in raising €46M from big investors in the US and Europe. Why? For its First-in-class potential for a famous cancer target… Aprea started in 2003 as a spin-off from cancer research at Karolinska Institutet, in its technology-transfer program. This Biotech has a promising candidate […]

March 10, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 7 Mar 2016

Swedish Investment loses €8M over failed Phase I/II for Leukemia

Akinion (Sweden) will stop the development of its candidate for leukemia, after patients in phase I/II have experienced liver toxicity. As a result, main investor Karolinska Development takes an €8M hit in its portfolio valuation. Sad news for Akinion. This Stockholm-based drug developer decided to halt the development of its lead candidate, APN-028. This happens after […]

March 7, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 18 Feb 2016

This Pioneering Systems Biology Professor Received a €400K Prize from Novozymes

Jens Nielsen pioneered Systems Biology in Europe. His research efforts focus on transferring science research to industrial applications – to create a society independent of fossil fuels. He has now been awarded Novozymes Prize. Nielsen, a professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (Sweden), literally co-wrote the book on Metabolic Engineering back in 1998. During this period he […]

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

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News and Trends 28 Jan 2016

Sweden and Switzerland Join in on Microbiome Hype with New Karolinska Research Centre

Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland) and the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) announce a collaboration on a new research centere exploiting the human microbiome. The Karolinska Institutet has a deep understanding of the human microbiome, and the institute actually accounts for over 40% of the medical academic research conducted in Sweden (not to mention their long-standing ties with the Nobel Prize […]

January 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 18 Jan 2016

Where there be Patent-Free Markets: Swiss-Swedish Biosimilar for Blindess Reaches Iran

Helvetic BioPharma (Switzerland) estimates that 70,000 people suffer from age-related macular degeneration in Iran, the leading cause of blindness. This deal with Xbrane in Stockholm (Sweden) will debut a biosimilar therapy that could really tackle this problem. Xbrane itself is a Swedish biopharma with links to Italy (after an acquisition of the Italian Primm Pharma […]

January 18, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 10 Nov 2015

The 10 Hottest Bioincubators in Europe

A Bioincubator is a launch-pad structure for entrepreneurs to make their project in the sciences real. In Europe, we have many incubators within each industry, responsible for strategic investment, development and providing a support network for start-ups. Bioincubators are considered as the first ‘home’ for young biotech companies, providing entrepreneurs access to research laboratories, technology platforms, specific […]

November 10, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Nicolas Sainte-Foie

News and Trends 21 Oct 2015

The SuperBones; Polymeric Smart Coating Strategy for Titanium Implants

Uppsala University (Sweden) in joint collaboration with Neutron-Scattering experts at the Institute of Laue-Langevin in Grenoble (France) will change the medical world of implants. A new growth-stimulating ‘gel’ will therefore help the body adopt such implants as its own – as man and machine merge! Welding artificial hip joints or making dental implants from titanium […]

October 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 20 Oct 2015

First-ever in utero Stem Cell Trial to be conducted by Karolinska Institutet

The Karolisnka Institutet (Sweden) is ready to make History by conducting the first study involving the transplantation of stem cells into unborn babies. The treatment aims to strengthen the bone by producing collagen in infants with the brittle-bone disease Osteogenesis imperfecta in utero. The study is to be coordinated by the Karolinska Institute but to […]

October 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 Oct 2015

Global Hemophilia AID project achieves first milestone with donations from Swedish Biotech

The Hemophilia Aid Program has just touched down the first batch of treatments in its target developing countries, as part of a 10-year commitment from US Biogen (Massachusetts) and Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (SOBI) from Stockholm via the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH)’s AID project. The relief effort pledges to ship over 1 billion units […]

October 13, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 7 Oct 2015

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: DNA Repairing Mechanisms that Keep you Alive

DNA repair mechanisms are crucial to our existence. Without them, we would not survive because of DNA damage caused by the environment (e.g UV light damage, radiation etc.). This crucial research into discovery of three DNA repair mechanisms was led by Thomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar who jointly received this years Nobel Prize […]

October 7, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 7 Oct 2015

Sorry CRISPR, you’ll have to wait another year to win a Nobel Prize!

The first paper on CRISPR gene editing tech was only published in 2012. As a key player in the biotech revolution, CRISPR is the discovery of the century, permitting a whole new field of gene-editing for therapeutic purposes in a range of different research areas. Two of those responsible for the existence of CRISPR-Cas9, Jennifer […]

October 7, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Biotech Environment in 2016: Reverse Engineering the Ecosystem #BES2016

The Largest Scandinavian Biotech Fundraising of 2016 has just been Signed

Swedish Investment loses €8M over failed Phase I/II for Leukemia

This Pioneering Systems Biology Professor Received a €400K Prize from Novozymes

Sweden and Switzerland Join in on Microbiome Hype with New Karolinska Research Centre

Where there be Patent-Free Markets: Swiss-Swedish Biosimilar for Blindess Reaches Iran

The 10 Hottest Bioincubators in Europe

The SuperBones; Polymeric Smart Coating Strategy for Titanium Implants

First-ever in utero Stem Cell Trial to be conducted by Karolinska Institutet

Global Hemophilia AID project achieves first milestone with donations from Swedish Biotech

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: DNA Repairing Mechanisms that Keep you Alive

Sorry CRISPR, you’ll have to wait another year to win a Nobel Prize!

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