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News and Trends 12 Oct 2016

Will Aprea live up to the Hype of its €46M fundraising?

Aprea raised a huge €46M for a first-in-class drug that targets the deadliest form of ovarian cancer. The company just started Phase II trials after positive results from Phase I. But will it be able to outperform all its competitors? Aprea is a spin-out company from the Karolinska Development, the portfolio company of the Institute, in Sweden. It became […]

October 12, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 4 Oct 2016

CRISPR will Win the Nobel Prize, but When? Not this year…

Nobel Prize week has kicked off with the announcement of Physiology and Medicine recipient: it wasn’t the CRISPR crowd, but Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on autophagy. As Derek Lowe puts it, CRISPR “is absolutely, positively going to win a Nobel; the only question is when.” Well, it didn’t manage last year, nor this year. […]

October 4, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 28 Sep 2016

Little Biotechs manoeuvre to outfox Big Pharma in Immuno-Oncology

Giants like BMS and GSK have been throwing all the money they can at developing immuno-oncological treatments. In twin deals, four smaller companies are forging new paths to cure cancer with the human immune response. A pair of agreements among immuno-oncology biotechs have been made in attempts to outflank big pharma competition. In Scandinavia, Orion will fund […]

September 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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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News and Trends 7 Jul 2016

BMS to acquire Swedish Immuno-Oncology Biotech for €460M

Bristol-Myers Squibb wants to strengthen its immuno-oncology even further. For this, it is acquiring Cormorant – a Biotech developing immunotherapies in a deal that could go up to €460M. Based at the Karolinska Institute Science Park in Stockholm (Sweden), Cormorant was a private Biotech focusing on cancer immunotherapies. Its main program was HuMax-IL8, which is currently in Phase […]

July 7, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 20 May 2016

Biotech of the Week: Immunicum, Immuno-oncology made in Sweden

We like Scandinavia so much we just don’t want to leave, therefore, we’re heading back East again! This time, Gothenburg is our destination. Being the second biggest city in Sweden and having the biggest harbor in the Northern countries (and once the hosting city for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1985) it is also where […]

May 20, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 17 May 2016

Rare Disease Biopharma can now sell Hemophilia treatment across whole of EU

Sobi has received market approval by the European Comission for Alprolix, a long-duration protein therapy that protects hemophilia B patients from uncontrolled bleeding. With a focus on rare diseases, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi) has clinical programmes in diseases like alkaptonuria, tyrosinaemia and hemophilia – a disease with which Sobi is particularly invested. Its candidate for hemophilia […]

May 17, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 6 May 2016

Biotech of the Week: Affibody and its Super antibodies from Scandinavia

From North Israel, we once again depart North towards Scandinavia to visit Sweden. On one of the several islands that make Stockholm a very particular and special European capital, our Biotech of the week Affibody has its headquarters. City: Stockholm (Sweden) – (actually just down the road from the Karolinska Institute) Founded: 1998 Employees: 22 (as of 11/2015) […]

May 6, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 21 Apr 2016

New CRISPR Tool can cut RNA too: Gene Editing just got even Easier!

The research team led by Emannuelle Charpentier, co-discoverer of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, has found that a new CRISPR system can also cleave RNA. Amazingly simple! The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 system revolutionised Biotechnology, unlocking a kind of ‘Golden age’ for gene editing – with a wide-reaching impact from therapeutics to SynBio. So, it’s no wonder that […]

April 21, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 11 Apr 2016

Swedish Startup close to the North Pole signs 100 million deal with AstraZeneca

Lipigon Pharmaceuticals will now count with AstraZeneca to push the development of its Lipoprotein Lipase strategies. This could produce novel drugs to tackle metabolic and cardiovascular disease, still the leading cause of death worldwide. Lipigon is a spinout of Umeå University, developing new drugs based on research of lipid metabolism. Umeå may have one of the most remote universities […]

April 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 6 Apr 2016

Interviewing the Swedish Biotech that started the first Phase II Trial in Bahrain

It’s the fist time I heard of a European Biotech company clinically co-operating with a country in the Arabic gulf… That’s why I was curious to interview Christina Herder, the CEO of the Stockholm-based Dilaforette, which launched a Phase II trial in co-operation with Bahrain and the rest of the Emirates. Dilaforette, as many Swedish […]

April 6, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 5 Apr 2016

Interviewing one of the Leading Biotech Investors in Scandinavia

The Karolinska Institute (Sweden) is worldwide famous for giving the Nobel Prize every year… It’s also home of Karolinska Development, an investment company span out from Karolinska Institute. I had the chance to meet with Viktor Drvota, its Chief Investment Officer at BIO-Europe Spring 2016 in Stockholm. We had a chance to talk about the […]

April 5, 2016 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

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Will Aprea live up to the Hype of its €46M fundraising?

CRISPR will Win the Nobel Prize, but When? Not this year…

Little Biotechs manoeuvre to outfox Big Pharma in Immuno-Oncology

Biotech producer of Vaccines goes public on Nasdaq Stockholm

BMS to acquire Swedish Immuno-Oncology Biotech for €460M

Biotech of the Week: Immunicum, Immuno-oncology made in Sweden

Rare Disease Biopharma can now sell Hemophilia treatment across whole of EU

Biotech of the Week: Affibody and its Super antibodies from Scandinavia

New CRISPR Tool can cut RNA too: Gene Editing just got even Easier!

Swedish Startup close to the North Pole signs 100 million deal with AstraZeneca

Interviewing the Swedish Biotech that started the first Phase II Trial in Bahrain

Interviewing one of the Leading Biotech Investors in Scandinavia

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