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News and Trends 15 Feb 2022

Next-Gen Covid-19 Vaccines and Drugs Crowd into Late-Stage Trials

Despite the widespread rollout of vaccines over 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic remains a threat to healthcare systems worldwide. Numerous treatments and vaccines are hitting the late-stage pipeline, which could greatly expand the anti-Covid-19 arsenal. Two years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world and left economic disruption, healthcare crises, and widespread lockdowns in its wake. […]

February 15, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 10 Feb 2022

Global Team-up Cuts Genomics Costs to Fight Salmonella Infections

An international academic team has made strides in carrying out genome sequencing faster and more cheaply in low- and middle- income nations. This could improve the control of potentially lethal salmonella infections and propel research into vaccines. As the price of DNA sequencing continues to fall, genomics and bioinformatics firms are drawing ever more attention […]

February 10, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 8 Feb 2022

Reforms of EU Clinical Trial Regulations Bring Cautious Optimism

The EU’s clinical trial regulations received a major overhaul at the end of January 2022 to make trials easier to run across EU member states. It may bring some short-term chaos, industry insiders say, but down the road it is likely to pay off. At the start of February, the EU’s new Clinical Trials Regulation […]

February 8, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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News and Trends 3 Feb 2022

The Top European Biotech Investments in January 2022

Viral infection treatments, cell therapy, and artificial intelligence led biotech investments in January 2022 as the European sector took a collective breather from December’s funding frenzy. European biotech investments started 2022 at a modest level compared to the huge cash flow seen in November and December 2021. While December 2021 saw almost €1.6B money raised, […]

February 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 1 Feb 2022

Ethris Raises €23M to Make Inhaled Respiratory Therapies from mRNA

Thanks to Covid-19 vaccines, messenger RNA (mRNA) technology has reached the mainstream. With a €23.4M Series B round, the German firm Ethris is riding the mRNA buzz by developing inhalable mRNA therapies for respiratory diseases. As Covid-19 mRNA vaccines entered the market for the first time in 2020, the wide potential of mRNA technology became […]

February 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 1 Feb 2022

Ribbon Biolabs Pushes DNA Synthesis Length Limits with €18M Series A

The Viennese biotech startup Ribbon Biolabs has raised an €18M Series A round to reduce the costs of synthesizing long DNA molecules, which could accelerate research into synthetic biology and the storage of data as DNA. Supported by lead investor Hadean Ventures, Ribbon Biolabs’ fundraising round is part and parcel of a continuing investor interest […]

February 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Dan Samorodnitsky

News and Trends 28 Jan 2022

AI Hot in Healthcare Despite IBM’s Watson Health Pullout

Earlier this week, the tech giant IBM sold off chunks of its once-promising artificial intelligence (AI)-guided division Watson Health. Despite this setback, European firms see a bright future for the use of AI in healthcare. The tech giant IBM hit the headlines this week when it sold off parts of Watson Health — a division […]

January 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 26 Jan 2022

Norwegian Biotech Put on the Map with €18M Oncology Round

The immuno-oncology startup Cytovation has raised €17.7M (NOK 180M) in one of Norway’s biggest Series A rounds in life sciences. Historically, Norway’s biotech scene has not seen the kind of venture capital funding characteristic of health and biotech in the UK and US. However, Norwegian biotech is growing and has seen more successes than many […]

January 26, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Dan Samorodnitsky

News and Trends 26 Jan 2022

Bioinformatics Startups in Focus as SeqOne Genomics Bags €20M

The French company SeqOne Genomics has raised €20M in a Series A round as growing investments reach startups delivering the next generation of genomics and bioinformatics. The cost of sequencing the human genome has plummeted over the decades to less than €900 ($1,000) today. Partly thanks to advances in cloud computing, innovations are flourishing in […]

January 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 21 Jan 2022

Two Gene Therapy Players Launch IPOs on Stormy Stock Market

After a drought of more than a year, the European gene therapy sector saw initial public offerings from Genenta Science and Genflow Biosciences. The firms aim to shine as biotech stocks elsewhere perform poorly. Until recently, European gene therapy companies were going through a dry spell in terms of launching initial public offerings (IPO). The […]

January 21, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 19 Jan 2022

Engitix Builds Liver Disease Pipeline with Series A and Drug Collaboration

With the close of its Series A round at €48M ($54M), the tissue models company Engitix has shifted its business from providing drug discovery services to developing its own treatment pipeline for liver diseases. When Engitix was spun out of University College London in 2016, the startup primarily aimed to provide tissue models to pharmaceutical […]

January 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 18 Jan 2022

Ori Biotech Bags €88M Investment to Automate Cell Therapy Manufacture

The UK company Ori Biotech has raised €88M ($100M) in Series B cash to ease the cell therapy manufacturing bottleneck using automation and standardized data collection. The round was 40% oversubscribed and led by the US investment firm Novalis LifeSciences. The Chinese investor Puhua Capital and Chimera Abu Dhabi joined the existing syndicate, which includes […]

January 18, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Next-Gen Covid-19 Vaccines and Drugs Crowd into Late-Stage Trials

Global Team-up Cuts Genomics Costs to Fight Salmonella Infections

Reforms of EU Clinical Trial Regulations Bring Cautious Optimism

The Top European Biotech Investments in January 2022

Ethris Raises €23M to Make Inhaled Respiratory Therapies from mRNA

Ribbon Biolabs Pushes DNA Synthesis Length Limits with €18M Series A

AI Hot in Healthcare Despite IBM’s Watson Health Pullout

Norwegian Biotech Put on the Map with €18M Oncology Round

Bioinformatics Startups in Focus as SeqOne Genomics Bags €20M

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Engitix Builds Liver Disease Pipeline with Series A and Drug Collaboration

Ori Biotech Bags €88M Investment to Automate Cell Therapy Manufacture

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