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News and Trends 26 Feb 2016

Biotech of the week: Kallistem, producing Functional In vitro Spermatozoids in France

This week, we leave Lisbon, Portugal and head up to Lyon, the so-called gastronomical capital of France. Besides bird watching, a beautiful cathedral and a multi-purpose Roman amphitheatre, and of course delicious food, Lyon is where Kallistem, our Biotech of the Week, is located. City: Lyon, France Founded: 2012 Employees: 7 (as of 02/2016) Financial Data: N/A CEO: […]

February 26, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 24 Feb 2016

Your Microbiome even Impacts how Tall you are!

Research at the University of Lyon (France) and Czech Academy of Sciences have found a previously unknown link between the microbiome and Human growth, as well as a potential therapeutic application for Lactobacillus plantarum. The microbiome is a hot field for research and Health Biotechs alike, and Europe is home to some of the leaders in […]

February 24, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 22 Feb 2016

Making Bladder Cancer Cells Glow earns French Biotech €1.5M

VitaDX (France), is developing a non-invasive medical device for early detection of bladder cancer, based on a syndicate of French academic research. This simple urine sample analysis has attracted over €1.5M in preparation for clinical trials and a global market launch. The technology operated by VitaDX is the result of a research collaboration between the Institute of Molecular […]

February 22, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 22 Feb 2016

Meet the CEO of a Confident Orphan Oncology Biotech from France & Denmark

Last week, I was in Paris to meet with one of our Investors, during which time I also had a chance to visit the French Cancer Biotech, Onxeo. I met with the CEO of Onxeo, Judith Greciet, who was confident about the future of the company. She moved into the role in 2011 after having spent […]

February 22, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 15 Feb 2016

‘Every Droplet Counts’ with €1M Investment into French Microfluidic Start-Up

MilliDrop (France) designs and develops cell culture machines based on millifluidic technology for bacterial research and diagnostics, and has now secured a €1M fund-raising from Seventure. Millidrop will use the fund to start producing trial runs of its first machine, the MilliDrop Analyzer. This machine uses millifluidics technology to culture and analyse micro-organisms. The company is also under the Pierre-Gilles […]

February 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 11 Feb 2016

Sanofi-Genzyme: Still successful 5 years after the acquisition?

Back in 2011, France’s biggest Pharmaceutical company Sanofi decided to purchase Genzyme Corp. for more than $20 billion, thus becoming the latest global drug giant to acquire a big biotech to foster its R&D pipeline. 5 years later, what’s the situation for Genzyme and Sanofi? So often when a large Pharma acquires a smaller Biotech, […]

February 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 9 Feb 2016

Synthetic Biology Breakthrough in Production of Natural Carotenoids

The SynBio Biotech, Deinove (France), is hoping to break into the Carotenoid market for food, cosmetics and animal feed. Now, with their Deinococcus platform they have made several major advancements in their endeavours. Deinove also partnered with the Canadian company POS Bio-Sciences last year to try and kickstart the long-term project. Carotenoids are part of the isoprenoid family, which is the main area of […]

February 9, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 8 Feb 2016

The European Union Finances the Future of CAR-T Manufacturing

CAR-T is the way forward in Cancer therapeutics, which is one of the leading causes of Mortality in the Western world. Now this European consortium has amassed €6M for a more unified approach to CAR-T under a European Union Commission program. In response to this major health issue Miltenyi Biotec (Germany) coordinates the new EU-funded project […]

February 8, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 8 Feb 2016

French Biotech Launches Phase III Global Trial for Lung Cancer Drug

OSE Pharma (France) has initiated the US phase III trial, Atalante 1. This global, pivotal trial will evaluate Tedopi, the company’s lead product, for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The phase III study was initiated in Europe in early 2016, so the screening of eligible patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer is now actively ongoing in […]

February 8, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 5 Feb 2016

German RNA Specialist Could Break French Biotech into the Cancer Ecosystem

Riboxx Life Sciences (Germany) has licensed out its drug development platform APOXXIM to a small biotech, Tollys SAS in Lyon (France) to investigate a specific type of cancer therapy. Riboxx develops customized and tailor-made molecular tools for gene silencing in vitro and in vivo through RNA interference via small interfering RNA (siRNA) and microRNA (miRNA). The company has two […]

February 5, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 4 Feb 2016

Finland, France and Harvard Bioprint Brains to Understand the 3D Structure

Researchers at Harvard University in collaboration with French and Finnish academic institutions have managed to 3D-bioprint a brain with the distinctive folds; An essential adaptation for our cognitive development. Harvard University worked with the CNRS at Aix Marseille Université (France), Institut Mines-Telecom INSERM (France) and the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). The team then published in Nature Physics what they discovered […]

February 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 3 Feb 2016

France’s 3rd Largest Pharma Company Finally Opens up to Biotech Innovation

Open Innovation is now everywhere, even Pharma. So, just today in France, the opening of the Pierre Fabre Fund for Innovation for biotech startups has been announced. Most Big Pharma have their own program. Boehringer-Ingelheim for example is partnering with BioMedX to run a new program with researchers from Heidelberg. Now the 3rd largest Pharma company in France, […]

February 3, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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Biotech of the week: Kallistem, producing Functional In vitro Spermatozoids in France

Your Microbiome even Impacts how Tall you are!

Making Bladder Cancer Cells Glow earns French Biotech €1.5M

Meet the CEO of a Confident Orphan Oncology Biotech from France & Denmark

‘Every Droplet Counts’ with €1M Investment into French Microfluidic Start-Up

Sanofi-Genzyme: Still successful 5 years after the acquisition?

Synthetic Biology Breakthrough in Production of Natural Carotenoids

The European Union Finances the Future of CAR-T Manufacturing

French Biotech Launches Phase III Global Trial for Lung Cancer Drug

German RNA Specialist Could Break French Biotech into the Cancer Ecosystem

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