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News and Trends 2 May 2015

PlugMed has Just Won €2M Funding to Develop an Innovative Device against Kidney Failure

PlugMed has been awarded €2 million of funding, as part of the World Innovation Challenge organized by the French Ministry of Industry. It will enable the company to speed up the Geroneph project that aims at developing an innovative device in the treatment of kidney failure. Nowadays, dialysis is used by more than two million people […]

May 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 28 Apr 2015

PEP-Therapy Raised €1.3 Million in Seed Capital

France-based PEP-Therapy has raised €1.3M in initial funding. This sum, invested by the Quadrivium 1 seed fund and a business angel, Dr Bernard Majoie, will enable the cancer-focused company to undertake regulatory development of its first therapeutic product, a biomarker. The biomarker works as a predictive for foreseeing the effectiveness of a cancer treatment. The […]

April 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 27 Apr 2015

Ynsect: what’s behind this Yellow Biotech champion?

How do you manage a planet with a growing population with increasing consumption needs when you only have a limited amount of ressources available? Everybody knows it’s a never-ending debate, but some companies are grabbing their chance to change the world. Ynsect is one of the many firms trying to do so, and could be a future champion of the Yellow Biotech […]

April 27, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 24 Apr 2015

Interview with Dr. Andrei Popov, CEO at Ecrins Therapeutics

Dr. Andrei Popov, CEO at Ecrins Therapeutics Photo credit: Ecrins Therapeutics Laureate of the 2002 INSERM program “Avenir”, Dr. Andrei Popov launched a research project with a focus on the mechanisms of cell division and bioactive small molecules, both fields relevant to oncology (INSERM and Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble). The discovery of several drug […]

April 24, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

News and Trends 22 Apr 2015

Erytech Strengthens its Intellectual Property Position in the US

Erytech strengthed its intellectual property portfolio in the United States with the granting of a new patent and the further extension of the patent term of its core process patent. The French biopharmaceutical company develops innovative ‘tumor starvation’ treatments for acute leukemia and other oncology indications with unmet medical needs. The patent entitled “Medicament for […]

April 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 21 Apr 2015

Annette Clancy joins Lysogene’s Board of Directors

Annette Clancy has been appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of Lysogene, a leading clinical-stage company focused on gene therapy to treat Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders. Ms. Karen Aiach, Founder and CEO of Lysogene, who has led Lysogene in translating its rAAVrh10 lead product for Sanfilippo from bench to bedside in an unprecedented fashion, stated: […]

April 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Apr 2015

Histalim, already 10 years committed to Histology

In the prestigious Fabre Museum of Montpelier (France), Thursday, April 9, 2015, Histalim organized for his birthday, an afternoon of table speeches around bioservices and also an evening with contemporary art exhibition and concert. Histalim, founded in June 2005, provides services around histology to different players in the pharmaceutical and medical industry and agri-food research. […]

April 16, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 15 Apr 2015

Will the roads of the future be paved with microalgae?

In contrast to first generation biofuels, where edible plants were suggested to be grown to obtain oil, microalgae raise as a very promising source alternative to fossil fuels. For the first time, they have been used to make bio-bitumen. Some French public institutes (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Nantes, Ecole des Mines de Nantes) in partnership […]

April 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 14 Apr 2015

Novacyt raised €2.2M to accelerate its technology’s launching in China

Novacyt announced a private equity placement financing of €2.2M that will be used to accelerate the launch of NOVAprep into China with its distribution partner Leica Biosystems, now scheduled for Q2 2015. This follows the successful financing of €3.1M in December 2014. This latest financing attracted support from current investors including Alto Invest, and a […]

April 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 9 Apr 2015

Ipsen and Hannover Medical School start joint research in Recombinant Botulinum Neurotoxins

Ipsen and Hannover Medical School, one of the world’s leading university medical centres, have entered into a joint research collaboration agreement, signed in last September. Their objective is to develop new therapeutics for patients with serious neurological, endocrinological or oncological disease. The research program aims at testing recombinant botulinum neurotoxin proteins to affect intracellular molecular […]

April 9, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 9 Apr 2015

Exclusive interview with Laurent Levy, CEO of Nanobiotix, Leading European Nanomedicine Biotech

Nanomedicine could be the next revolution in healthcare and Paris-based Nanobiotix is one of the leading biotech in the field. It started from a vision in 2003 and now counts 50 employees after having raised over €70M. I had the chance to chat with Laurent Levy, founding CEO of the company, and will give you an […]

April 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 4 Apr 2015

An Exclusive Agreement Supporting Patients Requiring Access to an Intravenous Nutritional Therapy

April 4, 2015 - 0 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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PlugMed has Just Won €2M Funding to Develop an Innovative Device against Kidney Failure

PEP-Therapy Raised €1.3 Million in Seed Capital

Ynsect: what’s behind this Yellow Biotech champion?

Interview with Dr. Andrei Popov, CEO at Ecrins Therapeutics

Erytech Strengthens its Intellectual Property Position in the US

Annette Clancy joins Lysogene’s Board of Directors

Histalim, already 10 years committed to Histology

Will the roads of the future be paved with microalgae?

Novacyt raised €2.2M to accelerate its technology’s launching in China

Ipsen and Hannover Medical School start joint research in Recombinant Botulinum Neurotoxins

Exclusive interview with Laurent Levy, CEO of Nanobiotix, Leading European Nanomedicine Biotech

An Exclusive Agreement Supporting Patients Requiring Access to an Intravenous Nutritional Therapy

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