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News and Trends 14 Nov 2015

What happened this week? mRNA Therapies, TCR & Algae Beer

Monday: Leading TCR Immuno-oncology Biotech shows Promising Results against Cancer Tuesday: What the FUGT? We tried the Algae Bar Beer for the TransArt Fest in Copenhagen! Wednesday: Using Algae and NanoTech to Kill Cancer: An Australian-German Collaboration Thursday (two interviews): Interview: The ‘RNA’ People’s Pioneering Strategy to get mRNA Therapies onto the Market EU’s Largest Private […]

November 14, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 12 Nov 2015

Interview: CureVac, the ‘RNA’ People’s Pioneering Strategy to get mRNA Therapies onto the Market

I am still at the mRNA Convention in Berlin…and was invited for a second interview – this time with the ‘RNA People’, battling to be the first to get an mRNA Drug onto the Worldwide Market. I had a chat with Franz-Werner Haas, the Chief Corporate Office of CureVac. We talked a lot about this […]

November 12, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 12 Nov 2015

EU’s Largest Private Biotech talking on the Future of mRNA Therapies

Today is the 3rd International mRNA Health Conference in Berlin. I jumped in the metro to go there and interview the most successful people of the field… We first interviewed Sean Marett, COO of BioNTech. This German Biotech is the largest private Biotech in EU and so far counts over 400 employees…BioNTech also recently signed […]

November 12, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 4 Nov 2015

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

Sanofi is now the latest Biotech lining up to partner with BioNTech from Mainz (Germany), for license of their mRNA Immuno-oncology platform in a€1.37Bn long-term development deal. Novel mRNA targets in Immuno-onology is a top-shelf cancer R&D area, with Germany’s CureVac also attracting another €100M yesterday for their mRNA platform (which targets lung and prostate […]

November 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 10 Sep 2015

CureVac, the mRNA Therapy Leader, is invading Moderna’s Homeland!

One more hit to Moderna Therapeutics struck by its German competitor CureVac! The Tübingen-based company just announced the opening of its subsidiary in Boston – hometown of Moderna – and a research collaboration with the U.S. non-profit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) to develop a mRNA-based HIV treatment. CureVac, today announced the official launch of its U.S. operations in […]

September 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 8 Jul 2015

CureVac’s mRNA Therapy is Working Against Prostate Cancer

mRNA based immunotherapies are no pipe dream anymore. Germany’s CureVac just presented encouraging results of its Phase IIa clinical study. The firm’s lead mRNA candidate CV9103 is well tolerated and immunogenic in patients with prostate cancer. Based on the favorable data, CureVac initiated a Phase IIb study with a follower prostate cancer vaccine. Just recently, […]

July 8, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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 4 Jun 2015

Lesson to Learn from the Best Biotech Entrepreneurs: be a Pioneer!

Last week, Biotech Entrepreneurs gathered in Berlin for the Charité Entrepreneurship Summit 2015. As a spectator, I’ll bring you the most important lessons to take on board from successful entrepreneurs. The First speaker was James Sabry, Senior VP at Genentech, which I already interviewed on the strategy of Genentech/Roche. The Californian entrepreneur, who founded the NASDAQ-listed company Cytokinetics before joining Genentech, gave […]

June 4, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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What happened this week? mRNA Therapies, TCR & Algae Beer

Interview: CureVac, the ‘RNA’ People’s Pioneering Strategy to get mRNA Therapies onto the Market

EU’s Largest Private Biotech talking on the Future of mRNA Therapies

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

CureVac, the mRNA Therapy Leader, is invading Moderna’s Homeland!

CureVac’s mRNA Therapy is Working Against Prostate Cancer

mRNA Therapies: CureVac Outperformed the Money Magnet Moderna

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