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News and Trends 31 Mar 2016

Money Magnet Immunocore kicks off Trial for Eye Melanoma

Immunocore (UK) has enrolled its first patient for a phase I trial that will test its ImmTAC as a standalone therapy for uveal melanoma, the most common eye cancer. Immunocore is famous for having raised the biggest European Private round ever (€300M), and so it’s no wonder that if often makes our tops here at […]

March 31, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 3 Feb 2016

When the Llama met the Lion: Antibodies Unlock Milestone Payment for Skin Disease

ArGEN-X in Ghent (Belgium) combines the diversity of the llama immune system with a clinical antibody pipeline which Leo Pharma (Denmark), is developing to treat inflammatory skin conditions. These llama mAb platforms allow arGEN-X to unlock novel and complex targets and develop antibody-based drugs designed for longer duration of effect and greater efficacy. This is a similar approach to which Ablynx […]

February 3, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

Cancer Research UK has teamed up with MSD (Merck) and the Wellcome Trust to co-develop some Inhibitors for both Cancerous and Non-cancerous blood disorders from the Australian Academia-Biotech Network. The Australian Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) in Melbourne has a range of investigational inhibitors for blood disorders – including Leukemia. CTx is collaborative partnership […]

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 25 Jan 2016

This Potential First in Class Cancer Therapy Could Help Patients Avoid Eye Surgery

Immunocore in Oxford (UK) has been Granted Orphan Drug Designation for a Phase I Super rare Eye cancer drug by the FDA. Uveal melanoma is a rare disease in which cancer cells form in the tissues of the eye, and comprises approximately 3% of all melanomas. It is actually the primary intraocular malignancy of the adult eye and currently, […]

January 25, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 26 Sep 2015

Replimune smashes Oncolytic viral €26.8M series A financing round

Replimune is an Oxford (UK) biotech baby, having only been founded in April this year a spin-off of former US BioVex. Nonetheless, this hasn’t stopped its Series A finance round reaching up to €26.8M. Replimune’s focal research is in developing new immuno-oncology therapies using oncolytic viruses, inspired by BioVex-Amgen’s T-VEC success. Replimune was founded by […]

September 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 17 Jul 2015

TC BioPharm raises €1.7M to commence treatment in UK cancer patients

TC BioPharm raised €1.7M (£1.18) to treat UK-based patients with melanoma, lung and kidney cancer. Thanks to this funding, the Phase I/II clinical studies will start as of September in several parts of the country. TC BioPharm’s lead product, ImmuniCell, uses patients’ own cells grown in culture to target a wide variety of different cancers. […]

July 17, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 3 Jul 2015

Lilly Cooperates with Immunocore to Fight Skin Cancer

Eli Lilly expands its portfolio in immune-oncology therapies. This time, Immunocore‘s lead T cell receptor-based drug, IMCgp100 is tested in combination with Lilly’s kinase inhibitors galunisertib and merestinib. This second collaboration between these two companies aims to increase drug efficacy against melanoma cancer. Melanomas are rare forms of skin cancer, that have a high potential […]

July 3, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 18 Apr 2015

Another Partnership between Immunocore and MedImmune against Skin Cancer

Immunocore Limited, a world-leading biotechnology company developing novel biological drugs to treat cancer and other diseases, and MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca have just entered into a second effective collaboration for a potential skin cancer treatment. It concerns melanoma which is a form of skin cancer that accounts for less than five per cent of […]

April 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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Money Magnet Immunocore kicks off Trial for Eye Melanoma

When the Llama met the Lion: Antibodies Unlock Milestone Payment for Skin Disease

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

This Potential First in Class Cancer Therapy Could Help Patients Avoid Eye Surgery

Replimune smashes Oncolytic viral €26.8M series A financing round

TC BioPharm raises €1.7M to commence treatment in UK cancer patients

Lilly Cooperates with Immunocore to Fight Skin Cancer

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