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News and Trends 30 Apr 2015

A new Microfluidic Chip technology raised €1.9Million

Lunaphore Technologies closed a Series A financing round of €1.9M (CHF 2 millions). The round was led by Redalpine Venture Partners in Zurich with the participation of private investors from Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Lunaphore’s young team wants to use this cash to develop its first tissue diagnostics platform. The young Swiss medtech company, […]

April 30, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 22 Apr 2015

[Interview] Smartbone, using bioengineering to repair your bones!

Orthobiology is a field of biomedical technology, which develops new devices and products for skeletal regenerative medicine. IBI sa (Industrie Biomediche Insubri sa) is a Swiss-based company excelling in this field. I met Giuseppe Perale, co-founder and President of the company, who not only gave me the big picture on this field, but also on […]

April 22, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 13 Apr 2015

Humabs and MedImmune partnership to develop an Influenza A treatment

Medimmune starts phase I clinical trial to investigate an antibody developed under a collaboration with Humabs BioMed for the treatment of influenza A. The novel antibody developed through Humabs’ Cellclone technology will be investigated a trial being conducted by MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca. The investigational antibody, which has broad influenza-neutralizing […]

April 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 8 Apr 2015

CRISPR Therapeutics opens Boston R&D Office to Win the CRISPR War

CRISPR Therapeutics appointed Bill Lundberg to Chief Scientific Officer to lead the company’s development programs and to spearhead the creation of its R&D operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The biopharmaceutical company was founded in Basel, Switzerland, by Emanuelle Charpentier, one of the pioneer scientists in the CRISPR field. The company is focused on translating CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing […]

April 8, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 3 Apr 2015

The Strategic Focus of Roche-Genentech on Personal Genetic data

Personal Genetic data plays more and more a critical role in drug development. Major Pharma company Roche and its Biotech subsidiary Genentech are iconic in this trend. They have always been the first ones to catch up the wave and get profit from it. Today, Genentech believes and focus on genome sequencing to continue bringing breakthrough […]

April 3, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 2 Apr 2015

Anergis completed Phase II for AllerT, a novel treatment for pollen allergies

Anergis announced treatment completion of its Phase II clinical trial of AllerT, a novel long-peptide immunotherapeutic to treat birch pollen allergies. Anergis’ approach uses synthetic, pharmaceutical-grade Contiguous Overlapping Peptide (“COP”), peptides of 40-80 amino-acids which are safer (no risk of immediate allergic reaction) and can elicit a faster immune response than the allergenic proteins they […]

April 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 20 Mar 2015

Let’s Focus on Calypso Biotech, a New Promising Startup that Concentrates on Niche Gastro-intestinal Diseases

Last week, I was in Bio Spring Europe and I met Alain Vicari, Calypso Biotech’s CEO: What is Calypso Biotech? Calypso Biotech discovers and develops antibody therapies for indications in gastro-intestinal diseases. The company tackles on niche diseases, with therapeutic antibodies against difficult targets. Calypso was founded in Geneva, in 2013, as a spin-off of […]

March 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 19 Mar 2015

Syngenta corn trait expansion further continues thanks the Vietnamese approval

A few days ago, Syngenta announced that the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved its Bt11 x GA21 double stack corn seed for commercial cultivation in the country. Syngenta, one of the world’s leading companies in the field of Green Biotechnology, have more than 28,000 employees in over 90 countries. The company […]

March 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 18 Mar 2015

Novartis’ Jakavi receives European Commission approval

Novartis received the approval from the European Commission for Jakavi (ruxolitinib) for the treatment of adult patients with Polycythemia Vera (PV) who are resistant to or intolerant of hydroxyurea. Jakavi is the first targeted treatment approved by the European Commission for these patients. PV is a rare and incurable blood cancer associated with an overproduction […]

March 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Mar 2015

Against Being Against GMOs: The Golden Rice Story

At the Zurich Life Science Day, I had the pleasure of hearing the keynote speaker, Professor Ingo Potrykus, Professor Emeritus of Plant Sciences at the Institute of Plant Sciences at ETH Zurich and creator of Golden Rice (GR). At 82 years old, he has the liveliness of someone much younger than him. While initially the […]

March 16, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 9 Mar 2015

An Inside Look: Zurich Life Science Day 2015

Over 600 people from all stretches of the globe gathered on February 12 for the Zurich Life Science Day at the University of Zurich. My first impression walking there was that the campus (both the Irchel campus it was held at and main campus I mistakenly went to first) were beautiful. I had low expectations […]

March 9, 2015 - 7 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 6 Mar 2015

Novartis achieves the First Biosimilar approval in US

The Novartis company Sandoz has become the first company with a biosimilar approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after today’s approval of Zarxio, a treatment for neutropenia. Sandoz is the first company to receive the approval of a biosimilar in the US through the new FDA biosimilars pathway established under Biologics Price […]

March 6, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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A new Microfluidic Chip technology raised €1.9Million

[Interview] Smartbone, using bioengineering to repair your bones!

Humabs and MedImmune partnership to develop an Influenza A treatment

CRISPR Therapeutics opens Boston R&D Office to Win the CRISPR War

The Strategic Focus of Roche-Genentech on Personal Genetic data

Anergis completed Phase II for AllerT, a novel treatment for pollen allergies

Let’s Focus on Calypso Biotech, a New Promising Startup that Concentrates on Niche Gastro-intestinal Diseases

Syngenta corn trait expansion further continues thanks the Vietnamese approval

Novartis’ Jakavi receives European Commission approval

Against Being Against GMOs: The Golden Rice Story

An Inside Look: Zurich Life Science Day 2015

Novartis achieves the First Biosimilar approval in US

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