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News and Trends 22 Nov 2016

Fighting for the next Asthma Blockbuster: Italy gets in the way of Novartis

Chiesi has bought Atopix Therapeutics and stepped into the fight for the next asthma blockbuster. Can it take on Novartis in the competition for what is expected to grow to a €24B market in 2024? Chiesi is an Italian pharma with a strong focus on respiratory diseases. To strengthen its pipeline, the company has acquired the […]

November 22, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 4 Jul 2016

Novartis delivers German Biotech’s 12th Antibody to Clinics

MorphoSys keeps up its impressive productivity in feeding pipelines. Its 12th antibody in its Novartis collaboration has just reached clinical development. After presenting results for two of its wholly-owned candidates at ASCO 2016 (you can get an insider look into ASCO from the team), MorphoSys is receiving good news on the collaborations’ front. One of the […]

July 4, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 16 Feb 2016

World’s Best Journal in Medicine Publishes on Phase II Llama Antibodies

Ablynx, the llama antibody biotech in Belgium, has now proven to be on solid ground regarding their orphan drug for a rare blood disease. Now the New England Journal of Medicine has published their phase II results. Ablynx often makes our biotech headlines, be it with the curious science of their nanobody platform or with their partnerships with […]

February 16, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 12 Feb 2016

Biotech of the week: Nordic Nanovector & its ARC technology

This week we say ‘au revoir’ to Nantes and head back up to the Scandinavian country that is Norway, in particular it’s capital city, Oslo – the location of our biotech of the week, Nordic Nanovector. City: Oslo, Norway Founded: 2009 Employees: +/- 30 (as off 11/15) Financial Data: €156M Market Cap (on 23/11/2015) CEO: Missions: Betalutin, a potential new treatment […]

February 12, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

Cancer Research UK has teamed up with MSD (Merck) and the Wellcome Trust to co-develop some Inhibitors for both Cancerous and Non-cancerous blood disorders from the Australian Academia-Biotech Network. The Australian Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) in Melbourne has a range of investigational inhibitors for blood disorders – including Leukemia. CTx is collaborative partnership […]

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Jan 2016

Biotech of the week: Vivia Biotech, the Spanish Pioneer in Personalised Medicine

This week we leave the cold winds of Sweden and head south, to warmer weather and say ¡Hola! to Spain and the location for this week, Madrid. This vibrant city is famous for one of the best football teams in the world, the oldest restaurant in the world (opened in 1725!) and is home to the […]

January 29, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 4 Jan 2016

Cellectis Full-Steam Ahead with UCART19 Trial for Leukemia in the UK

So it begins…dubbed the ‘Miracle Cure’ for Blood Cancer, UCART19 is now set to begin its journey to Human trials in the UK. Just 2 days before Christmas, the French billion euro Biotech, Cellectis, submitted a clinical trial application to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Specifically, the request was to approve initiation […]

January 4, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 22 Dec 2015

Serious Genetic Diseases have a New CRISPR Dream Duo Venture worth in Excess of €275M

Blood disorders, blindness and congenital heart disease? The new Bayer Life Science Center (BLSC) in Germany and CRISPR Therapeutics (Switzerland) have now created a joint Venture to tackle cures for these rare genetic defects. CRISPR Therapeutics will contribute its proprietary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology and intellectual property, while Bayer will make available its protein engineering expertise […]

December 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 15 Dec 2015

Berlin Biotech Breakthrough: Myelo is Only 3 Years old and Already Starting a Phase II Trial for Breast Cancer!

Myelo Therapeutics in Berlin (Germany) has been approved for a phase II trial for its Chemo-induced Neutropenia therapy for Breast cancer after completing a successful series B financing round. A reduced level of neutrophils (a type of leukocyte) is called neutropenia. It can leave a patient vulnerable to infection and to developing febrile neutropenia, a […]

December 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 7 Dec 2015

Best-in-Class Label for Blood Cancer Trial by Billion Euro Biotech

Latest results of MorphoSys candidate for Multiple Myeloma show that it was Celgene’s loss when it abandoned the phase I/IIa trial partnership on blood cancer. Announced at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting this weekend in Orlando (US), the phase I/IIa drug for blood cancer from MorphoSys has shown good tolerability for this […]

December 7, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

In Depth 20 Oct 2015

The Ultimate Review on how Biotech Changed Cancer Treatment

You have roughly 50% chance of developing a cancer in your life and 25% of dying from it. How to cure it? Biotech played and will continue to play an essential role in Cancer, ranging from monoclonal antibodies, immuno-oncology, CAR-T and everything in between. Cancer is the degeneration of one type of cell within an […]

October 20, 2015 - 10 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 13 Oct 2015

Why can’t Novartis Commit to the Israeli Biotech Scene?

Novartis, the Swiss Acquisition-Giant from Basel, has once again taken bought a small chunk of shares from the Israel biotech scene for only $15M (2.5%), instead of making a final solid purchase. The Jerusalem biotech Gamida Cell, which has a stem-cell therapies for hematological diseases (leukemia and various types of anemia), was underwhelmed a second […]

October 13, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Fighting for the next Asthma Blockbuster: Italy gets in the way of Novartis

Novartis delivers German Biotech’s 12th Antibody to Clinics

World’s Best Journal in Medicine Publishes on Phase II Llama Antibodies

Biotech of the week: Nordic Nanovector & its ARC technology

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

Biotech of the week: Vivia Biotech, the Spanish Pioneer in Personalised Medicine

Cellectis Full-Steam Ahead with UCART19 Trial for Leukemia in the UK

Serious Genetic Diseases have a New CRISPR Dream Duo Venture worth in Excess of €275M

Berlin Biotech Breakthrough: Myelo is Only 3 Years old and Already Starting a Phase II Trial for Breast Cancer!

Best-in-Class Label for Blood Cancer Trial by Billion Euro Biotech

The Ultimate Review on how Biotech Changed Cancer Treatment

Why can’t Novartis Commit to the Israeli Biotech Scene?

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