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News and Trends 15 Feb 2016

Celebrating the 10th Birthday of this German Infectious Disease Biotech with the CEO

AiCuris is a Biotech company based on the Bayer Life Sciences park in Wuppertal (Germany). It is working on new anti-infective drugs and is a former spin-off of Germany’s biggest Pharma Company. It’s celebrating its 10th birthday this year, which is good reason to interview the CEO… So AiCuris is working on anti-infective drugs for […]

February 15, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 5 Feb 2016

Biotech of the week: Effimune, the French Success-story in autoimmune disease

This week, we leave central Spain and head North-East, across the Pyrenees and head to the largest city in ‘Traditional Brittany’, France, and also the this week’s location, Nantes. This picturesque city was voted the most Green in EU (2013), is famous for the production of Muscadet wine and is home to our biotech of […]

February 5, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 3 Feb 2016

When the Llama met the Lion: Antibodies Unlock Milestone Payment for Skin Disease

ArGEN-X in Ghent (Belgium) combines the diversity of the llama immune system with a clinical antibody pipeline which Leo Pharma (Denmark), is developing to treat inflammatory skin conditions. These llama mAb platforms allow arGEN-X to unlock novel and complex targets and develop antibody-based drugs designed for longer duration of effect and greater efficacy. This is a similar approach to which Ablynx […]

February 3, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 21 Jan 2016

Fighting Lupus with an Autoimmune Disease Vaccine that Uses Limpet Proteins

Neovacs in Paris (France) investigates immunotherapies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and today signed a partnering agreement with the molluscan protein manufacturer, Stellar Biotechnologies (US). This joint venture will operate under the name of Neostell SAS, and it will be owned 30:70, the majority going to Neovacs. Neovacs is a biotech focused on an active immunotherapy technology platform (Kinoids) […]

January 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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 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

News and Trends 30 Sep 2015

Apitope relocates to Wales after €12M series B financing round

Now, as we’ve recently discussed here at Labiotech, there doesn’t appear to be many Welsh biotechs…however, this is all about to change, with major Autoimmune disease focused Apitope relocating it’s HQ to Wales. This is following a €12M series B fundraiser led by the Wales Lifesciences Fund for its monoclonal antibody pipeline. Aptiope are currently […]

September 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Jul 2015

UCB’s Lupus treatment breaks down in Phase III

Big disappointment for Belgian UCB. After 9 years of research, its lead candidate in Immunology, designed to treat Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, failed in Phase III. The drug was acquired from Immunomedics in 2006 and costed at least $38M. Epratuzumab is a monoclonal antibody for the treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, developed by Immunomedics. For the […]

July 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 2 Jul 2015

Biogen is back home with its $1Bn Swiss production plant

Biogen is coming back home. The American company is opening a production plant in Switzerland that will employ 400 professionals. To this aim, the company will invest €0.9Bn ($1Bn) into the project. Biogen was founded back in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland, and now aims at expanding its manufacturing network by opening a biopharmaceutical plant in […]

July 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 1 Jul 2015

Green light for one of the largest clinical trials in Immunotherapy

In a period, where uncountable big pharmas and biotechs are struggling to get the largest piece of the immunotherapy cake, an unexpected player has arrived. TxCell, a French biotech, received an option to extend its current phase IIb study from EU to US, a stage that lots of immunotherapy experts would like to reach. TxCell was founded fourteen years […]

July 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 22 Apr 2015

Synthetic sea anemone’s peptide to cure Autoimmune Diseases

Kineta and researchers from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, announced new data from a study that showed dalazatide (formerly ShK-186) is effective in immunomodulating the cells causing inflammation and damage of small blood vessels in various organs in samples from patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA). The data were presented at the 17th International ANCA […]

April 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 5 Mar 2015

Baxter’s Bioscience Business Acquires SuppreMol

Baxter has acquired SuppreMol for €200M before working capital and other adjustments. The acquisition includes SuppreMol’s early-stage development portfolio of novel biologic immunoregulatory therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. SuppreMol is a privately held biopharmaceutical company based in Martinsried, Germany developing treatment options for autoimmune and allergic diseases, focusing on the modulation of Fc […]

March 5, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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Celebrating the 10th Birthday of this German Infectious Disease Biotech with the CEO

Biotech of the week: Effimune, the French Success-story in autoimmune disease

When the Llama met the Lion: Antibodies Unlock Milestone Payment for Skin Disease

Fighting Lupus with an Autoimmune Disease Vaccine that Uses Limpet Proteins

Meet the Company Fighting Autoimmune Diseases with a Novel Immunotherapy

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

Apitope relocates to Wales after €12M series B financing round

UCB’s Lupus treatment breaks down in Phase III

Biogen is back home with its $1Bn Swiss production plant

Green light for one of the largest clinical trials in Immunotherapy

Synthetic sea anemone’s peptide to cure Autoimmune Diseases

Baxter’s Bioscience Business Acquires SuppreMol

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