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News and Trends 12 Aug 2015

Roche and Clovis combine drugs to fight lung cancer, the most common cancer worldwide

Roche‘s subsidiary Genentech joined forces with NASDAQ-listed Clovis Oncology to evaluate a novel combination therapy for the treatment of advanced EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Its anti PD-L1 cancer immunotherapy and Clovis’ rociletinib will enter Phase Ib/II in 2015. With 1.35 million new cases annually, lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. In […]

August 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 12 Aug 2015

CRISPR Therapeutics reinforces its Team with Top Executives from Pfizer and McKinsey

A new strategic movement in the hot CRISPR field: CRISPR Therapeutics ramps up its leadership team with Samarth Kulkarni as its new Chief Business Officer and Michael Bruce as Senior Vice President to moderate program portfolio and alliance management. In the meantime, CRISPR’s main competitor EditasMedicine procured €108M to accelerate its CRISPR-based therapies in clinical state. […]

August 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Jul 2015

Effective Antibody from a Patient recovering from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Two months after the outbreak of the coronavirus in South Korea, researchers are presenting first results of an effective treatment for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The Swiss biotech Humabs BioMed has been able to isolate an effective antibody from a cured patient that should now be further developed under a non-profit base. In 2012, […]

July 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 27 Jul 2015

Roche exits €940M discovery alliance with Molecular Partners

Roche left the collaboration with Molecular Partners, walking away from a potential cancer treatment using the DARPin technology. The collaboration, entered in 2013, was worth up to €940M. Molecular Partners is a Swiss company focusing on immuno-oncology. The company has developed a platform generating small proteins called DARPins (Designed Ankyrin Repeat Proteins). These can target […]

July 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 26 Jul 2015

Roche’s Deal pushes Vifor’s split from Galenica

Switzerland’s biggest pharmacy network, Galenica, wants to split off the specialty pharma company Vifor Pharma. This could be done earlier than expected, thanks to a lucrative Roche deal. Galenica has made large investments in the pharma business over the recent years. Vifor Pharma is already a world leader when it comes to iron deficiency treatments. In […]

July 26, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 17 Jul 2015

AC Immune receives Milestone Payment for Alzheimer Antibody

AC Immune received a first milestone payment from Roche’s subsidiary Genentech. The latter picked up a potential Alzheimer’s drug worth developing towards clinical trials. The collaboration began in 2012 with Genentech’s promising milestone payments amounting to more than €384M (CHF400M). Alzheimer’s disease will be one of the biggest burdens of tomorrow’s society showing a dramaticaly […]

July 17, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 15 Jul 2015

Ferring bets on bacteriophages to treat inflammatory bowel disease

Bacteriophages have been instinctively killing bacteria for millions of years. These natural bacteria predators represent a potential alternative to antibiotics and Ferring Pharmaceuticals wants to use them against inflammatory bowel disease. The Swiss pharma joined forces with phages specialist Intralytix to manufacture these viruses for clinical purposes. Bacteriophages can be very selective when it comes […]

July 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 10 Jul 2015

Sanofi to solve Growing Resistance against Malarial Treatments

Sanofi extended its collaboration with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) to jointly develop a new combination therapy against malaria, the deadliest parasitic disease worldwide. The difficult access and the fear of a growing resistance to the existing treatments highlight the importance of this partnership. Atemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) are at this moment the most efficient […]

July 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 8 Jul 2015

Genmab and Novartis look for the European approval of their leukemia candidate

Genmab is seeking the European authorization for Arzerra, a treatment co-developed with Novartis. The submission is based on the candidate’s positive results in its Phase III in patients with leukemia. Arzerra, the commercial name for ofatumumab, is a human monoclonal antibody that directs the body’s immune system to fight normal and cancerous B-lymphocytes. The drug […]

July 8, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 2 Jul 2015

Biogen is back home with its $1Bn Swiss production plant

Biogen is coming back home. The American company is opening a production plant in Switzerland that will employ 400 professionals. To this aim, the company will invest €0.9Bn ($1Bn) into the project. Biogen was founded back in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland, and now aims at expanding its manufacturing network by opening a biopharmaceutical plant in […]

July 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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 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

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Roche and Clovis combine drugs to fight lung cancer, the most common cancer worldwide

CRISPR Therapeutics reinforces its Team with Top Executives from Pfizer and McKinsey

Effective Antibody from a Patient recovering from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Roche exits €940M discovery alliance with Molecular Partners

Roche’s Deal pushes Vifor’s split from Galenica

AC Immune receives Milestone Payment for Alzheimer Antibody

Ferring bets on bacteriophages to treat inflammatory bowel disease

Sanofi to solve Growing Resistance against Malarial Treatments

Genmab and Novartis look for the European approval of their leukemia candidate

Biogen is back home with its $1Bn Swiss production plant

Roche and Evotec knocked down by their Alzheimer candidate

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

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