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News and Trends 5 Oct 2015

Manfred Horst on MSD, Biosimilars, KEYTRUDA and his Company’s rich history

Manfred Horst is a Director Business Development Europe and working from an office at MSD France, the French affiliate of MSD which has its HQ in New Jersey (and is known as Merck & Co. in the US). MSD is one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world with a 2014 revenue of €37.4Bn and €6.4Bn […]

October 5, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 30 Sep 2015

Gecko’s Heart surgery glue the new Cover of Science’s Translational Medicine

Gecko Biomedical is a young Parisian biotech which is now featured on the front cover of the Science Journal for Translational Medicine. We explore their surgery adhesive tech inspired by natural stickiness of molluscan slugs, and their latest proof of its application in heart surgery. Gecko Biomedical was only founded in 2013 by a rockstar […]

September 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Sep 2015

Sanofi and Regeneron’s Praluent succeeds at final hurdle with EU authorisation

Regeneron (NY, USA) has finally brought alirocumab (trade name Praluent) to the finish line with collaborator Sanofi, today announcing that the European commission has granted its hypercholesterolemia drug a marketing license for the EU. Having already been approved by the FDA in July, this completes Praluent’s launch into the Western pharma market. New-York based Regeneron […]

September 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 25 Sep 2015

Two French Biotechs are fighting in court…for nothing

We are all familiar with stories of lawsuits in the tech sector (e.g. remember the Apple and Samsung debacle?) but it’s less well known for Biotechs to butt heads. Nonetheless, the French-Danish Biotech oncology company Onxeo, and Eurofins (a huge 19K employee group which deals in clinical services) fought it out in Paris’ commerce court: to […]

September 25, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Sep 2015

UniQure’s cure for rare Lysosomal disease ready for phase III trial

UniQure from the Netherlands has promising results for its enzyme replacement therapy phase Ib/II trial targeting a rare Lysosomal disease. This has granted fast-track approval to launch its phase III trial for children with Sanfilippo Type B (MPS-III) in collaboration with France’s Institut Pasteur. UniQure is the Amsterdam gene-therapy biotech with a lot going on. Last year […]

September 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 18 Sep 2015

Servier to revolutionize Diabetes treatment thanks to Intarcia’s successful Phase III

Treatment of diabetes hasn’t changed so much since the development of first human insulin by Genentech. But Boston-based Intarcia (a partner of Servier and one of the 9 billion-dollar Biotech startups worldwide) has just published positive phase III results of its implantable device aiming at changing how type 2 diabetes are treated. November 2014: I thought […]

September 18, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 17 Sep 2015

France’s leading Female Bio-entrepreneur joins board of Abivax

Dominique Costantini is one of France’s leading biotech figures, with over 20 years experience on boards, partnerships and business backing in some of the biotech industries leading brands. With a medical background specializing in immunology (from Paris V University), Costantini co-founded oncology focused Onxeo in 1997. Formerly known as BioAlliance Pharma, this biotech went public […]

September 17, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 17 Sep 2015

This new Bioplastic plant integrates breakthrough Biotech innovations

Bioplastics hasn’t replaced plastics yet. One new milestone has now been reached, the French company Carbios has just opened its pilot plant to produce biodegradable plastics thanks to its breakthrough enzyme-based technology. Whilst various green initiatives push for better regulation of recycling (a prime example being in Berlin!), in reality only around 10% of plastic […]

September 17, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 16 Sep 2015

Giving new life to Sanofi’s annual €6.2Bn diabetes blockbuster Lantus

Sanofi has announced positive results of its combination drug LixiLan phase III trials for Type 2 diabetes. Constituted from both Lixisenatide and insulin glargine Lantus, LixiLan is developed to tackle type 2 diabetes when both oral medication fails and basal insulin loses its efficacy. Lixisenatide (Lyxumia outside the US) was initially discovered by Zealand […]

September 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

Will bacteriophages solve the antibiotic resistance problem in the EU?

French Pherecydes Pharma has launched the first EU clinical bacteriophage phase I/II trial to fight hospital acquired infections (HAIs) in military hospitals and burn units. In collaboration with two other French biotechs, the Phagoburn project aims to combat the stigma against human bacteriophage therapies in the EU and US in order to battle the oncoming […]

September 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

The 9 EU-based Billion-Euro Biotechs you Should (really) Know

Update 22/10/2015: I added Galapagos from Belgium and Basilea from Switzerland, they deserved it … Talking about billon-dollar companies in the US is such a hype. Even the Wall street journal has its own start-up club (which btw is stunning). By looking at it, I wondered which European Biotechs were worth over €1Bn in Europe. […]

September 15, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 14 Sep 2015

Leading Cause of blindness has new US & EU Orphan Drug Designation Immunotherapy

TxCell, from Nice (Fr), has been granted EU and US Orphan Drug Designation for its T-cell based therapy for autoimmune uveitis – an eye inflammatory disease responsible of 10-15% legal blindness in developed countries. TxCell is a spin-off from France’s National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm), with a pipeline including a phase II […]

September 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Manfred Horst on MSD, Biosimilars, KEYTRUDA and his Company’s rich history

Gecko’s Heart surgery glue the new Cover of Science’s Translational Medicine

Sanofi and Regeneron’s Praluent succeeds at final hurdle with EU authorisation

Two French Biotechs are fighting in court…for nothing

UniQure’s cure for rare Lysosomal disease ready for phase III trial

Servier to revolutionize Diabetes treatment thanks to Intarcia’s successful Phase III

France’s leading Female Bio-entrepreneur joins board of Abivax

This new Bioplastic plant integrates breakthrough Biotech innovations

Giving new life to Sanofi’s annual €6.2Bn diabetes blockbuster Lantus

Will bacteriophages solve the antibiotic resistance problem in the EU?

The 9 EU-based Billion-Euro Biotechs you Should (really) Know

Leading Cause of blindness has new US & EU Orphan Drug Designation Immunotherapy

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