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News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Oxford Firm Recruits Two Partners to Build Drug Discovery AI

e-Therapeutics has teamed up with AI experts Intellegens and Biorelate to improve its technology for computer-based drug discovery. Based in Oxford, e-Therapeutics has the mission of reducing the time and money it costs to develop new drugs with the help of artificial intelligence. Its platform can explore large amounts of public and private databases to […]

January 16, 2018 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Young Oxford Biotech Raises €22.5M to Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine

Vaccitech has closed a Series A fundraising that will support clinical trials with its vaccine technology against influenza and prostate cancer. Spun out from Oxford University in 2016, Vaccitech has now closed its Series A fundraising round. Amounting to a total of £20M (€22.5M), the round was co-led by GV, Oxford Sciences Innovation and Sequoia China, and joined […]

January 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 15 Jan 2018

British Biotech’s Technology is Taken by Pharma to Fight Alzheimer’s

Having developed multispecific antibodies with F-star, Denali Therapeutics has joined forces with Takeda Pharmaceuticals to commercialize Alzheimer’s drugs using the technology. F-star’s bispecific antibody technology has received validation in the form of two pharma companies using it for the development of new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. San Francisco-based Denali Therapeutics and Japanese company Takeda will collaborate on […]

January 15, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 15 Jan 2018

The FDA Gives AstraZeneca’s Breast Cancer Drug the Go-Ahead

The UK big pharma company’s Lynparza will be for women with advanced breast cancer that is specifically caused by mutations in the BRCA gene. Global pharma giant AstraZeneca focuses on the development of drugs for cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The company, which is working on a number of small molecules and biologics for a […]

January 15, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 12 Jan 2018

This Collaboration Will Develop a New Epilepsy Gene Therapy for In-Need Patients

CombiGene and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult have struck a deal that will move the biotech’s epilepsy therapy towards the clinic. Swedish biotech CombiGene has combined neuroscience and advances in gene delivery to pioneer and new therapy for epilepsy that has brought down the number of seizures in preclinical studies. The company has joined forces […]

January 12, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 12 Jan 2018

These Biomaterials Could Help to Make Stem Cell Therapies a Reality

British researchers have developed biomaterials that better recreate the conditions required for stem cells to grow into desired cell types. Researchers at Imperial College London have used 3D printing to create biological structures that can support tissue regeneration. The study, published in Scientific Reports, outlines how the group used cryogenics – freezing – to create a biomaterial that mimics the […]

January 12, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 11 Jan 2018

Here’s Another Reason to Eat Plenty of Fruit and Vegetables

Researchers have discovered that bacteria break down fruit and vegetables to produce chemicals that control our genes and could help to prevent cancer and fight infections. British scientists from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, with colleagues from Brazil and Italy, have discovered a mechanism by which helpful bacteria in the gut can control the […]

January 11, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 9 Jan 2018

Scancell and BioNTech Will Combine Their Expertise to Fight Cancer

Scancell has brought in BioNTech to develop T-cell receptors against specific target proteins in cancer cells, opening the door to new cancer treatments that target them. Scancell works on immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and it has announced that it will come together with Europe’s largest private biopharma, BioNTech, to develop T-cell receptor (TCR)-based therapies. […]

January 9, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 9 Jan 2018

Adaptimmune Gets the Green Light for its New T-cell Cancer Therapy

Following successful pilot studies, Adaptimmune will increase the dose of its T-cell therapy 10-fold to see if it remains safe, while also assessing its cancer-fighting capacity. Adaptimmune is a leader in the development of T-cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. It has been testing another one of its SPEAR T-cells in two pilot studies to determine […]

January 9, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 8 Jan 2018

Biotech in London Paves the Way for a New Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis

TopiVert has successfully completed a Phase I trial in ulcerative colitis with a new class of drug that could help reduce adverse side effects. The results of a Phase I trial run by London-based biotech TopiVert have shown potential for a new type of therapy for ulcerative colitis. The study revealed that the drug, called […]

January 8, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 8 Jan 2018

This British Liquid Biopsy Could Save Us $5000 per Prostate Cancer Patient

ANGLE’s liquid biopsy technology measures the expression of an important prostate cancer biomarker, helping to identify the best treatment for different groups of patients. ANGLE is a world leader in the development of liquid biopsies – a technique for the early detection of cancer, which doesn’t require invasive tissue samples. The biotech published results in […]

January 8, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 8 Jan 2018

This Skin Patch Could Slow the Rate of Antibiotic Resistance

Researchers have developed a skin patch that delivers drugs directly into the blood, avoiding the gut which is a breeding ground for antibiotic resistance. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are developing a skin patch to deliver drugs through the skin and directly into the bloodstream via thousands of ‘microneedles’. The technology is being tested as a […]

January 8, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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Oxford Firm Recruits Two Partners to Build Drug Discovery AI

Young Oxford Biotech Raises €22.5M to Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine

British Biotech’s Technology is Taken by Pharma to Fight Alzheimer’s

The FDA Gives AstraZeneca’s Breast Cancer Drug the Go-Ahead

This Collaboration Will Develop a New Epilepsy Gene Therapy for In-Need Patients

These Biomaterials Could Help to Make Stem Cell Therapies a Reality

Here’s Another Reason to Eat Plenty of Fruit and Vegetables

Scancell and BioNTech Will Combine Their Expertise to Fight Cancer

Adaptimmune Gets the Green Light for its New T-cell Cancer Therapy

Biotech in London Paves the Way for a New Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis

This British Liquid Biopsy Could Save Us $5000 per Prostate Cancer Patient

This Skin Patch Could Slow the Rate of Antibiotic Resistance

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