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News and Trends 14 Feb 2015

GlycoVaxyn: A new Gain for GSK’s Vaccines Business

GSK, who was already a minority shareholder in GlycoVaxyn, acquires the company and its biological conjugation platform which may help it to develop a new generation of prophylactic vaccines against bacterial infections. GSK has today paid €167M to purchase the remaining stake in the company. GlycoVaxyn’s innovative biological conjugation platform originates enables the development of […]

February 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 6 Feb 2015

2014, the Biggest Year Ever for European Biotech IPOs

There is no need to say it: biotechnology is the latest trend. A worldwide bio-boom has shaken stock markets throughout 2014. For European start-ups, last year represented a remarkable step forward as 15 companies went public and raised €719.8M in total, as Biocom’s last report states. Let me present you a review summering the major […]

February 6, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 2 Feb 2015

Will 4D Pharma be UK’s next Microbiome leader?

4D Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on significant new therapeutic areas, plan to raise €46M to continue the development of its drugs candidates and to exploit its microbiome platform MicroRx. Will 4DPharma be the next UK’s microbiome leader? This English company, founded in early 2014, has focused its current interests solely in the microbiome field and the discovery […]

February 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 31 Jan 2015

An Anglo-French Partnership To Cure Hepatitis B

European biotechnology company Valneva and UK company Immune Targeting Systems (ITS) announced that they have signed an exclusive worldwide commercial license agreement. This deal grants ITS the rights to research, develop and commercialize Hepatitis B vaccine candidates in combination with Valneva’s IC31 Adjuvant. Valneva’s IC31 Adjuvant is a unique synthetic adjuvant combining the immuno-stimulating properties […]

January 31, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 24 Jan 2015

Important Bilateral Academic Agreement for the Future of iPS Cell Therapy

The UK Cell Therapy programme Catapult, which is focused on the development of the UK cell therapy industry to increase the nation’s health and wealth, has signed a patent licence agreement with iPS Academia Japan. It represents a pivotal step in the development of the UK’s GMP induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell bank. Under the […]

January 24, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 22 Jan 2015

Novabiotics Tackles Antibiotic Resistance by Raising €6,5M Euros

NovaBiotics Ltd has raised €6,5M for priority clinical stage first-in-class antimicrobial therapeutics assets. The private placement with Woodford Investment Management LLP was arranged by Shore Capital as financial adviser and broker to the company. NovaBiotics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the design and development of first-in-class anti-infectives for difficult-to-treat, medically unmet diseases. NovaBiotics has spent more than 10 […]

January 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 10 Dec 2014

Promising Agreement Signed for Regenerative Medicine

Heraeus Medical signed an agreement with Locate Therapeutics to license the intellectual property surrounding the use of TAOS in orthopaedic applications and the inception of the first development program in this field. The agreement gives Heraeus Medical GmbH the rights to the future co-developed orthopaedic products as well as the processes involved in manufacturing the final product. […]

December 10, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 28 Nov 2014

One Billion Strategic Oncology Alliance for the Second Largest Antibody Technology Platform

Oxford BioTherapeutics and Menarini Group have initiated the first-in-human clinical study of OBT357, a novel enhanced antibody for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This is the first of five development programs between the two companies to enter the clinic in a $1 billion strategic oncology alliance. Oxford BioTherapeutics and the Menarini Group established their […]

November 28, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 22 Nov 2014

After AstraZeneca Turned Down Pfizer’s Bid, Merck Took the Opportunity

Pharmaceutical giants Merck and Pfizer have agreed a deal to develop and market immunotherapy agents to fight cancer. Now, the last Pfizer’s proposal to AstraZeneca is pending. Merck will get an upfront payment of €682 million from the U.S. drugmaker for sharing rights to develop its experimental immunotherapy drug with Pfizer. It is also eligible […]

November 22, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 11 Nov 2014

Ziarco Pharma raises €27M two years after founding

Ziarco Group Ltd, a British biopharmaceutical start-up focusing on inflammatory skin diseases, bags €27M for Series B financing round. This fast-growing 2 year old company already raised €21.4M in a Serie A lead by Pfizer and is now accelerating even more. This second fundraising will enable clinical Phase II Proof-of-Concept studies for ZPL-389, a histamine H4 receptor antagonist […]

November 11, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 1 Nov 2014

Apply to OneStart to win €125k for your life sciences/health care business idea

OneStart, organized by Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable and SR One, GSK’s corporate venture capital arm, is today the world’s largest life science/healthcare startup accelerator. Apply by December 1st, 2014 for the chance to win £100k (€125k) as well as free lab space. Do you have an idea, an entrepreneurial opportunity or have you already started? Discover why you […]

November 1, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Oct 2014

Review : Ebola, The True Story

The first outbreaks of Ebola (also known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) have occurred in isolated villages in central Africa, near tropical forests, but the recent outbreak in West Africa has affected major urban centers as well as rural areas. The Ebola virus disease shows an average fatality rate about 50%. In previous outbreaks, the rate […]

October 30, 2014 - 26 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

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GlycoVaxyn: A new Gain for GSK’s Vaccines Business

2014, the Biggest Year Ever for European Biotech IPOs

Will 4D Pharma be UK’s next Microbiome leader?

An Anglo-French Partnership To Cure Hepatitis B

Important Bilateral Academic Agreement for the Future of iPS Cell Therapy

Novabiotics Tackles Antibiotic Resistance by Raising €6,5M Euros

Promising Agreement Signed for Regenerative Medicine

One Billion Strategic Oncology Alliance for the Second Largest Antibody Technology Platform

After AstraZeneca Turned Down Pfizer’s Bid, Merck Took the Opportunity

Ziarco Pharma raises €27M two years after founding

Apply to OneStart to win €125k for your life sciences/health care business idea

Review : Ebola, The True Story

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