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News and Trends 21 Jun 2016

Allergy Immunotherapy Knocked Out in Phase III by an ‘Overperforming Placebo’

Circassia’s pipeline takes a major step back as its therapy for cat allergy gets disappointing results — it had the same effect as the placebo. Stocks promptly sank by 65%. The Oxford-based Circassia has been a major European player in the field of allergy immunotherapies. It made a splash when it raised €267.7M in the London Stock […]

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

News and Trends 17 Jun 2016

Effective anti-infectives for medically unmet diseases? Ask Novabiotics

Toulouse was fun, but it’s time to go somewhere new! Fan of the Highlands, the landscapes that made the Harry Potter scenery much more exciting and the Loch Ness Monster? I’m just asking because this week we are going to Scotland! Aberdeen is our final destination, and we are visiting Novabiotics, our Biotech of the […]

June 17, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 15 Jun 2016

Eva Diagnostics: “We identified the pain points of the Blood testing market” #LBRefresh

Eva Diagnostics was one of the contestants at our Startup Battle during Labiotech Refresh. Take a second look with us at the pitch of Eva’s exciting diagnostic Tech… We had Sabine Dziemian, the head of data analysis at Eva Diagnostics, explain how this spin-off out of Imperial College London is joining the race for MedTech diagnostics. […]

June 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 15 Jun 2016

Boosting a Single Protein makes for a 50% more Productive Rice

Researchers from the John Innes Centre and Nanjing Agricultural University have identified a protein that can help plants regulate their cell pH – a seemingly small modification that can boost rice crop yields by 50%. Rice is one of the major crops in the world, along with corn and wheat (also under the microscope of science […]

June 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

British Biotech startup shows 50% improvement in Atopic Dermatitis

Ziarco has received positive results from a Phase II trial with its leading candidate, which has shown to improve symptoms of atopic dermatitis by 50%, giving it the potential to fill the current need for a safe oral treatment for this inflammatory skin disease. Ziarco is a private biotech with a clinical-stage pipeline for inflammatory skin […]

June 14, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 14 Jun 2016

New Biomarkers could make Personalized Medicine for Depression

Researchers from King’s College London have succeeded in developing a blood test that can help choose the best treatment for depression patients – a big improvement over the current trial-and-error approach. Depression doesn’t seem to be a particularly popular indication for biotechs, unlike other nervous systems diseases that reached significant milestones in the last year. Moreover, one […]

June 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

Immunocore has published key results for its new preclinical candidate for HIV, ImmTAV. This TCR-based immunotherapy has succeeded in targeting T-cells where HIV infection often ‘hides’ from drugs. Just after presenting promising results from its leading candidate at ASCO 2016 (read our coverage here), Immunocore is making headlines in another area – infectious disease. The […]

June 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 2 Jun 2016

RNA therapy starts first-of-a-kind trial to treat Liver Cancer

MiNA Therapeutics is launching the first saRNA human trial of its kind – OUTREACH for patients with severe liver cancer. MiNA Therapeutics is a London based RNA specialist, developing RNA activation therapeutics that restore normal function to patients’ cells with an initial focus on severe liver cancer. The study is the first-in-human trial of a small activating RNA […]

June 2, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 2 Jun 2016

A ‘Skin Spray’ could cure Chronic Skin Wounds caused by Diabetes

Avita has initiated a trial in the UK to evaluate the potential of its ReGenerCell technology to treat diabetic foot ulcers, a skin wound that can be very hard to treat. With offices in the UK and originally from Australia, Avita Medical is developing products in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Its technology utilises the […]

June 2, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 1 Jun 2016

EMA approves Groundbreaking Gene Therapy for Super Rare ‘Bubble Baby’ Disease

GSK, Fondazione Telethon and Ospedale San Raffaele have announced that the EMA has approved Strimvelis for a super rare immunodeficiency disease in Children. Following 20 years of research at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget) in Italy, this is the news patients have been waiting for. Strimvelis is the first ex vivo stem cell gene […]

June 1, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 31 May 2016

UK Immunotherapy against Grass Allergies moves on to Phase III Trials

Circassia is beginning a Phase III trial for its short-course immunotherapy for grass allergies. This common type of allergy can significantly impact the life quality of patients. Circassia is based in Oxford (UK) and was part of 2014’s record Biotech IPOs – raising a whopping €268M. It focuses on respiratory diseases, such as asthma and allergies. Its […]

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

News and Trends 26 May 2016

GSK teams up with US Money to found new Biotech

GSK and Avalon Ventures are having success with the Biotechs created under their collaboration. Sitari Pharmaceuticals and Silarus Therapeutics have achieved their first milestones, and there’s a 8th Biotech in the making. As part of its innovation hunting in the US, English big Pharma GSK had struck a collaboration with Avalon Ventures and formed an ‘undercover incubator’ of sorts. […]

May 26, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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Allergy Immunotherapy Knocked Out in Phase III by an ‘Overperforming Placebo’

Effective anti-infectives for medically unmet diseases? Ask Novabiotics

Eva Diagnostics: “We identified the pain points of the Blood testing market” #LBRefresh

Boosting a Single Protein makes for a 50% more Productive Rice

British Biotech startup shows 50% improvement in Atopic Dermatitis

New Biomarkers could make Personalized Medicine for Depression

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

RNA therapy starts first-of-a-kind trial to treat Liver Cancer

A ‘Skin Spray’ could cure Chronic Skin Wounds caused by Diabetes

EMA approves Groundbreaking Gene Therapy for Super Rare ‘Bubble Baby’ Disease

UK Immunotherapy against Grass Allergies moves on to Phase III Trials

GSK teams up with US Money to found new Biotech

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