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News and Trends 26 Sep 2016

Terrible Turing hasn’t given up on Toxoplasmosis (or its Karma)

The biopharmaceutical company’s Swiss division just published computational studies aiming to improve Daraprim, after its former CEO, Martin Shkreli, attempted to justify the scandalous 5000% price hike as a boost for its R&D. A little over a year ago, Martin Shkreli, founder and then-CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, hiked the price of a common medication for toxoplasmosis by […]

September 26, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 15 Sep 2016

Too good to be true: Sanofi Pasteur’s Dengue vaccine raises Serious Concerns

Before Sanofi Pasteur distributed its dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, there were some concerns that it would actually make people sicker. A new study from top universities has found this to be the case in some areas. Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Imperial College London and the University of Florida have confirmed critics’ […]

September 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 13 Sep 2016

The next generation of Antibiotics could be Bacteriophages

One of the last remaining bastions for organic chemists in pharmaceuticals is in antibiotic development. It is now under fire from a partnership of academic and industrial microbiologists, who are developing bacteriophages into antibacterial therapies. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Janet Neal and Prof. Martha Clokie at the University of Leicester demonstrated the […]

September 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 6 Sep 2016

“This Phase I could Pioneer Needle-free Vaccines”, DBV’s CEO

How annoying are needle vaccinations? Very … But the French billion-euro Biotech DBV Technologies wants to bring a paradigm shift via its Anti-allergy Patch platform! I got to chat with the founder & CEO, Pierre-Henri Benhamou, for more insights. DBV’s success continues to amaze me. It’s not only close to solving the global peanut and […]

September 6, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 24 Aug 2016

While working on its HIV Cure, Gilead gives Europe an ‘HIV Vaccine’

Despite progress in HIV treatments and towards an HIV cure, the infection rate has risen to unprecedented levels in Europe. Gilead’s HIV-1 ‘vaccine’, Truvada, has just been approved for marketing in Europe to stop its spread. The year 2014 brought the highest number of new HIV diagnoses ever recorded in Europe, 94% of which were […]

August 24, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 22 Aug 2016

This new vaccine could tackle both Zika and Dengue at once

These potentially fatal diseases have reached pandemic proportions and are starting to threaten the Western world. Excivion (UK) and Xenetic (US) have announced a partnership to develop a combined vaccine for Dengue and Zika Viruses using new vaccine delivery technology. Following on Sanofi’s initiatives to combat the spread of Zika and Dengue viruses, a transatlantic partnership between […]

August 22, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 19 Aug 2016

Inotrem on its way to Control Acute Inflammation

We leave the North of Spain, meander through the Pyrenees and prendons un verre du vin français before arriving in Nancy. Here, we can visit the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Site and have a good quiche Lorraine. Then, it’s time to head to Inotrem, our Biotech of the Week. City: Nancy, France Founded: 2013 Employees: 12 Financial Data: €18M […]

August 19, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 15 Aug 2016

Gilead licenses Danish Bispecific antibodies for the next HIV Cure

As an add-on to their previously secretive partnership, Genmab is now licensing its bispecific antibodies for Gilead‘s pursuit of an HIV cure for as much as €248M. At the top of the Pyramid of European Biotech value, Genmab is one of the success stories in Copenhagen’s Biotech ecosystem. Its technology for innovative antibodies has allowed it […]

August 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 4 Aug 2016

Roche drops Partnership for Hepatitis Immunotherapy

While everybody wants to get the next immunotherapy on the market, Roche is turning its back on one. It’s leaving the partnership with Inovio, which focuses on developing a DNA-based immunotherapy to treat Hepatitis B. Previously, Roche has left projects to focus on immunotherapies, particularly in the hype field of immuno-oncology. This was an important […]

August 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 3 Aug 2016

Mysterious Immunology Mechanism Unlocked thanks to CRISPR

While studying a mutation connected to inflammatory disease, researchers from the University of Cambridge have found a previously unknown mechanism in immune response. As the cost of NGS plummets, genetic data is growing massively. With the help of bioinformatics, information about genetic variants and mutations can be linked to diseases. Sophia Genetics (Switzerland), Diploid (Belgium) […]

August 3, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 2 Aug 2016

Microbiome Therapies suffer setback with a Phase II Failure

The hype field of the Microbiome could be taking a step back, as the most advanced program has failed to meet its primary endpoint in a Phase II trial. What does this mean for the emerging class of therapies? As we have seen at Refresh’s Microbiome fireside chat, the field took really big steps in its recent […]

August 2, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 1 Aug 2016

Biotech producer of Vaccines goes public on Nasdaq Stockholm

After raising €2M in its successful IPO, ExpreS2ion Biotech starts trading on Nasdaq First North in Stockholm – a real milestone for this industrial spin-out. Expres2ion Biotech started out in 2010, as a spin-out of a Danish company focused on human antibodies, Affitech. Affitech itself has had a convoluted path. It was initially Norwegian, then merging with […]

August 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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Terrible Turing hasn’t given up on Toxoplasmosis (or its Karma)

Too good to be true: Sanofi Pasteur’s Dengue vaccine raises Serious Concerns

The next generation of Antibiotics could be Bacteriophages

“This Phase I could Pioneer Needle-free Vaccines”, DBV’s CEO

While working on its HIV Cure, Gilead gives Europe an ‘HIV Vaccine’

This new vaccine could tackle both Zika and Dengue at once

Inotrem on its way to Control Acute Inflammation

Gilead licenses Danish Bispecific antibodies for the next HIV Cure

Roche drops Partnership for Hepatitis Immunotherapy

Mysterious Immunology Mechanism Unlocked thanks to CRISPR

Microbiome Therapies suffer setback with a Phase II Failure

Biotech producer of Vaccines goes public on Nasdaq Stockholm

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