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News and Trends 6 May 2016

Interview with Two Key People of the Fight Against Lupus

I was in Paris this week in the building of the Rare Disease Alliance, an association helping patients affected by a rare disease. The association lend their space to Neovacs, a biotech company from Paris, which was organising a gathering of experts of lupus. Lupus is one of the most common rare disease and affects more than 5 million […]

May 6, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 4 May 2016

Feel like investing in Bio-Lighting? Here’s your chance

Glowee is bringing its bioluminescent bacteria back to crowdfunding, after raising €41k on Ulule. It is now after €645k to break into the industry – and anyone can invest in them. Glowee is a French start-up that is developing alternative lighting – with bioluminescent bacteria. This bacteria was genetically engineered to express proteins of marine […]

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

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News and Trends 29 Apr 2016

Big Pharma invest massively in Biomanufacturing facilities

Sanofi is pumping €300M into its current manufacturing site in Belgium. This will support its antibody pipeline, with new laboratories of quality control and manufacturing sciences. Sanofi, France’s largest Pharma, seems to be betting more and more in biologics. Just a few years after buying Genzyme, it’s giving its subsidiary more prominence in their R&D. Now, […]

April 29, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 28 Apr 2016

EU approves Combo-Drug for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Servier sees one of its combo-drug (trifluridine/tipiracil) approved by the European Commission, after showing a 2 month improvement in overall survival for metastatic Colorectal cancer. The largest private Pharma from France, Servier has well-known stake in innovative oncology therapies due to its role in the restructuring of Cellectis as a universal CAR-T Biotech – which looks extremely […]

April 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 28 Apr 2016

French Biotech and Cambridge to improve Food Security with UK Grant

Meiogenix and the University of Cambridge will get fresh money to investigate how epigenomics impacts crop diversity – and how it can be engineered for better yields of wheat. Based in Paris, Meiogenix is developing breeding technologies – which already caught the eye of Bayer Crop Science. One of its platforms is SpiX, which increases the […]

April 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 27 Apr 2016

French Pleodrug for Rare Neurological Disease opens up phase III trial in US

Pharnext is opening their first US study sites for a phase III trial in a rare neuropathy – a milestone in the development of Pharnext’s leading candidate. Based in Paris (France), Pharnext is developing new therapies for neurological conditions, including rare diseases such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. Pharnext uses network pharmacology to discover synergistic combinations of drugs […]

April 27, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 27 Apr 2016

CAR-T for Lupus with French-Italian Partnership

TxCell and Ospedale San Raffaele have partnered up to research a new treatment for Lupus, based on engineered regulatory T-cells (CAR-Treg). TxCell is developing immunotherapies based on the discovery of a type of T-cells that have anti-inflammatory properties – regulatory T lymphocytes (Tregs). Tregs have already yielded two candidates. Osave is currently on phase IIb […]

April 27, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 21 Apr 2016

These EU Biotechs presented groundbreaking results at World Biggest Cancer Meeting

The annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has just finished. From Europe, who made a splash with their results? The AACR annual meeting is the world’s biggest conference in Cancer research, and the must-attend event for Biotechs developing cancer therapies. The 2016 edition took place in New Orleans (US) from the […]

April 21, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 21 Apr 2016

Llama Biotech makes €600M deal with AbbVie for Immuno-Oncology

Ghent based argenx has just partnered up with the French AbbVie to develop a novel antibody derived from llamas – in its biggest deal ever! Having been better known for their work into autoimmune diseases, argenx has now also broken into the Immuno-Oncology field – big time. Previous collaborators have included Denmark’s Leo Pharma for inflammatory […]

April 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 20 Apr 2016

French Biotech submits new Drug for Eye Allergies to the FDA

Nicox is filing a New Drug Application for its allergic conjuntivitis candidate, a novel eye drop formulation of a well-known antihistamine. Based in Sophia Antipolis (near the French Riviera), Nicox is developing therapies in ophthalmology. Now, it has submitted one of its candidates (AC-170) for FDA approval, after good results from two phase III trials evaluating both the safety and […]

April 20, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 19 Apr 2016

French Microbiome Therapy boosted by compound from major US Biotech

Enterome, a leader in the European microbiome field, has struck a deal with US’ Vertex to develop novel small molecules with potential to treat inflammatory bowel diseases. With an impressive roll of partnerships and backed by the world-first Microbiome fund, Enterome is very well-positioned in hype field of the Microbiome. We discussed Enterome’s differentiated strategy […]

April 19, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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Best in Biotech 18 Apr 2016

Who are France’s Young Innovators in Biotech and Medicine this year?

The MIT Technology Review has released it’s next generation of best and brightest in French Tech. This also includes a surprising number of Biotech entrepreneurs… The 2016 cohort of French innovators under 35 will now join the ranks of many high risers in the Biotech industry, many of which have gone on to secure funding and […]

April 18, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Interview with Two Key People of the Fight Against Lupus

Feel like investing in Bio-Lighting? Here’s your chance

Big Pharma invest massively in Biomanufacturing facilities

EU approves Combo-Drug for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

French Biotech and Cambridge to improve Food Security with UK Grant

French Pleodrug for Rare Neurological Disease opens up phase III trial in US

CAR-T for Lupus with French-Italian Partnership

These EU Biotechs presented groundbreaking results at World Biggest Cancer Meeting

Llama Biotech makes €600M deal with AbbVie for Immuno-Oncology

French Biotech submits new Drug for Eye Allergies to the FDA

French Microbiome Therapy boosted by compound from major US Biotech

Who are France’s Young Innovators in Biotech and Medicine this year?

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