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News and Trends 2 Jul 2015

Roche and Evotec knocked down by their Alzheimer candidate

The progressive aging of the population in developed countries is turning Alzheimer into one of the biggest medical challenges of our times. And it looks like it is going to remain an unresolved problem for the moment, as Roche’s candidate failed its last clinical trial. The drug, developed in collaboration with German Evotec, didn’t meet […]

July 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 1 Jul 2015

mRNA Therapies: CureVac Outperformed the Money Magnet Moderna

Everybody has already heard about Boston-based Moderna Therapeutics, the most highly valued venture-backed private Biotech, but CureVac, its German competitor, remains much more understated. This could rapidly change as CureVac just demonstrated that its technology beats Moderna’s. mRNA technologies could theoretically disrupt the whole drug industry. Imagine that you can directly inject mRNA into patients to make them produce their own therapeutic proteins. Unfortunately, […]

July 1, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 30 Jun 2015

Qiagen vs. Illumina, the next Big Fight in Next-gen Sequencing

Next-gen sequencing is a revolution. San Diego-based Illumina owns most of the market but German giant Qiagen is prepared to disrupt this fact by stepping in massively by the end of the year. The fight has only begun. Imagine you could sequence your genome to discover the disease you may have in the future. What if I told you, […]

June 30, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Jun 2015

Actelion & the Max Planck Society created the new leader in Synthetic Carbohydrate Vaccines

Actelion has created a new start-up in the field of synthetic carbohydrate vaccines, together with the Max Planck Society. Actelion has made a funding commitment of up to €30M to back the new company, Vaxxilon. Prof. Dr. Peter Seeberger and his team at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces discovered the first preclinical […]

June 29, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Jun 2015

BioNTech and Siemens to build a new Production plant for Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Personalized medicine is the next thing and immunotherapy expert BioNTech is determined to build its place in this competitive field. With this purpose in mind, the German biotech will partner with Siemens to build a new production plant for personalized cancer vaccines. Founded in 2008, the BioNTech Group has become one of the fastest-growing biotechnology […]

June 25, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 24 Jun 2015

AYOXXA and Grünenthal collaborate on inflammation markers

AYOXXA Biosystems and Grünenthal have completed their first research collaboration to validate detection limits for a biomarker based on AYOXXA’s platform. The outcomes of this collaboration can be applied in several fields that include biological samples with very low initial volume, previously inaccessible by other immunoassays. The focus of the joint study consisted in analyzing […]

June 24, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Jun 2015

Will Boehringer Ingelheim win the race for anticoagulants?

Boehringer Ingelheim has released the last figures of its idarucizumab Phase III. The breakthrough anti-anticoagulant is being studied as an antidote to Boehringer’s blockbuster Pradaxa. Pradaxa was the first widely approved drug in a new generation of direct oral anticoagulants, a blockbuster developed by Boehringer Ingelheim. However, there is no specific antidote available yet to […]

June 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 22 Jun 2015

Medigene plans to fund its T-cell program with €50 Millions

Munich-based Medigene is planning to raise cash through existing shareholders’ investments. The company targets up to €50M to propel its immune-oncology program with T-Cell Receptors and Dendritic Cells vaccines assets. Medigene plans a cash capital increase with subscription rights for existing shareholders by offering a new batch of shares. The company is going to present […]

June 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 Jun 2015

German Viral Vector Producer SIRION pursues its American dream and opens in Boston

The biggest biocluster of the World is still attractive. Munich-based Sirion Biotech decided to open an office to establish its US presence and benefit from Boston’s leading position in the gene therapy field. Gene Therapy is the next big thing in Biotech and is now moving from a theoretical dream to reality. Boston is clearly the hotspot for […]

June 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 16 Jun 2015

Bayer set a strategic alliance with J. Hopkins in retinal diseases

Bayer HealthCare and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have entered into a five-year collaboration to develop ophthalmic therapies. The partners will jointly work on the discovery of treatments of retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. The goal of the strategic research alliance is to accelerate the translation of innovative approaches from the laboratory […]

June 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 15 Jun 2015

Jonhson&Jonhson hurries up Genmab’s myeloma treatment

Genmab and its partner Jonhson&Jonhson, through its subsidiary Janssen Biotech, are trying to speed up daratumumab. The companies initiated a rolling submission for the candidate that targets multiple myeloma. The German-American partnership is trying to accelerate the arrival of daratumumab to the market, only just after the presentation of optimistic results of MOR202’s phase I/IIa. […]

June 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 11 Jun 2015

Pieris Pharma: is it worth going to NASDAQ for only €31 Million?

Pieris Pharmaceutical is planning to raise €31M in an surprisingly low US IPO. The company seeks to advance its early-stage pipeline with a special focus on its anemia treatment, Pieris’s most advanced candidate which recently completed the enrollment of its Phase I. Pieris’ pipeline might be premature, but it is ambitious. The company’s focus includes […]

June 11, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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Roche and Evotec knocked down by their Alzheimer candidate

mRNA Therapies: CureVac Outperformed the Money Magnet Moderna

Qiagen vs. Illumina, the next Big Fight in Next-gen Sequencing

Actelion & the Max Planck Society created the new leader in Synthetic Carbohydrate Vaccines

BioNTech and Siemens to build a new Production plant for Personalized Cancer Vaccines

AYOXXA and Grünenthal collaborate on inflammation markers

Will Boehringer Ingelheim win the race for anticoagulants?

Medigene plans to fund its T-cell program with €50 Millions

German Viral Vector Producer SIRION pursues its American dream and opens in Boston

Bayer set a strategic alliance with J. Hopkins in retinal diseases

Jonhson&Jonhson hurries up Genmab’s myeloma treatment

Pieris Pharma: is it worth going to NASDAQ for only €31 Million?

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