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News and Trends 7 Apr 2016

Allergan Signs Massive €3Bn Alzheimer’s Deal with UK Biotech

Heptares Therapeutics is licensing its portfolio of novel candidates for neurological diseases, including one for Alzheimer’s, to Allergan for up to €3Bn. A good way for Allergan to ‘get over’ yesterday’s failed Pfizer acquisition. Based in Cambridge, UK, Heptares Therapeutics is creating new therapies with their StaR platform, that allows it to target G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a superfamily of 375 receptors linked to many […]

April 7, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 1 Apr 2016

When Nanoparticles meet Virtual Tumours to build Oncology Platform

BioMoti is enhancing cancer treatments via drug delivery innovation and it was one of the companies we visited during Labiotech Tour UK. Its Oncojan platform has caught the eye of Physiomics, a computational system biology Biotech listed on the London Stock Exchange. Oxford-based Physiomics develops computational models of cancer, allowing to simulate the effect of […]

April 1, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 31 Mar 2016

Money Magnet Immunocore kicks off Trial for Eye Melanoma

Immunocore (UK) has enrolled its first patient for a phase I trial that will test its ImmTAC as a standalone therapy for uveal melanoma, the most common eye cancer. Immunocore is famous for having raised the biggest European Private round ever (€300M), and so it’s no wonder that if often makes our tops here at […]

March 31, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 22 Mar 2016

Eurostars grants Metrion €2.2M for Novel Drug Discovery Tests

Metrion Biosciences (UK) is receiving €2.2M in funding for its project to develop phenotypic cardiac safety assays, that could make drug discovery cheaper and faster. Metrion is a Contract Research Organization out of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge (one of the 10 hottest bioincubators in Europe). It provides screening services for drugs still in the discovery […]

March 22, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 22 Mar 2016

The ‘Lunch Box’ sized Laboratory for Biohackers, Educators and Artists

Bento Bio is a London SynBio start-up founded around the Bento Lab; designed to include all the major components needed for a field laboratory, but with a sleek (and frankly, very good looking) interface. I met Philipp Boeing at a ‘Digital Biology’ (Do-it-yourself) meet-up in Berlin a couple months back, where the biohacking community would come […]

March 22, 2016 - 7 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 21 Mar 2016

CAR-T Startup Gets €51M from Top&New Investors

Autolus (UK) has secured over €51M in a recent series B round, led by the biggest Biotech VC in Europe – and a new player in life science investment. Autolus is a 1-year-old spin-off of the University College London (UCL) focusing on the development of next-generation CAR-T therapies, addressing current limitations of this ‘wonder therapy‘. […]

March 21, 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

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News and Trends 16 Mar 2016

Interviewing the Biotech which raised the Biggest European Round in 2016 so far

Yesterday I flew to Switzerland for the day, to gage what was going on at the 9th Annual Sachs conference for European Biotech CEOs. Here I had the chance to Interview Cambridge UK’s Mission Therapeutics on investment and technology.. Panel discussions covered Partnering and Investment for various therapeutic platforms – in MedTech, Diagnostics and generally ‘Israel’ (and […]

March 16, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 15 Mar 2016

How will the UK’s Potential Exit from the EU Affect the Biotech Industry?

I’m a UK Expat in Berlin, and whilst I admit confusion over where exactly the British Exit (i.e. “Brexit”) will leave me in the future, in general it is a depressing thought – for the UK Biotech Industry also. What exactly are the Industry logistics for the UK detaching itself from the EU? Admittedly there […]

March 15, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 14 Mar 2016

British Startup Raises Millions to Become the Illumina for Epigenetics

Cambridge Epigenetix (UK) wants to unlock the power of the Epigenome and become what Illumina is for NGS. And now, it has gotten the €18.9M and a new CEO needed to achieve this. Cambrige Epigenetix is a Biotech developing epigenetic tools, and was initially founded by Cambridge Enterprise (an incubator of the University of Cambridge) and […]

March 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 14 Mar 2016

Florida to release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to stop Zika Virus

Oxitec (UK) is on track to be allowed to trial their self-limiting, genetically engineered mosquitoes in the US – and stop the spread of Dengue and Zika. As a spin-off from Oxford University, Oxitec specialises in using genetic engineering to control insect pest populations with the ‘Sterile Insect Technique’. This is an interesting alternative to pesticides […]

March 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 11 Mar 2016

Biotech of the Week: Mission Therapeutics and a Cambridge Pathway against Cancer

From East to West, this week we say goodbye to Hungary and head up towards Queen Elizabeth II’s United Kingdom. Cambridge, known for its World renowned Academia is where Mission Therapeutics, our Biotech of the Week is located. City: Cambridge (UK) Founded: 2011 Employees: 30 Total raised: €110M (as of 02/2016) CEO: Anker Lundemose Mission: Founded in 2011, Mission Therapeutics, […]

March 11, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Allergan Signs Massive €3Bn Alzheimer’s Deal with UK Biotech

When Nanoparticles meet Virtual Tumours to build Oncology Platform

Money Magnet Immunocore kicks off Trial for Eye Melanoma

Eurostars grants Metrion €2.2M for Novel Drug Discovery Tests

The ‘Lunch Box’ sized Laboratory for Biohackers, Educators and Artists

CAR-T Startup Gets €51M from Top&New Investors

GSK partners to Scale Manufacturing of CAR-T Therapies

Interviewing the Biotech which raised the Biggest European Round in 2016 so far

How will the UK’s Potential Exit from the EU Affect the Biotech Industry?

British Startup Raises Millions to Become the Illumina for Epigenetics

Florida to release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to stop Zika Virus

Biotech of the Week: Mission Therapeutics and a Cambridge Pathway against Cancer

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