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News and Trends 9 Feb 2021

EMA Green Light Sends Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Into Turbulent Market

As AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine debuts in the EU market this month, supply bottlenecks, viral variants, and political squabbles demonstrate that the quest to develop and distribute Covid-19 vaccines is far from over. The list of approved Covid-19 vaccines in Europe is growing ever longer with the EMA approval of the […]

February 9, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By Kostas Vavitsas

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News and Trends 4 Feb 2021

HIV Drug Approvals Lift Hopes Amid Missed UN Targets

The recent approvals of long-acting HIV injections promise to lighten the load of HIV sufferers around the world. However, a vital UN deadline for improving global HIV healthcare has slipped away. At the end of January, ViiV Healthcare’s Cabenuva became the first long-acting HIV treatment to be approved by the FDA. This decision, in addition […]

February 4, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

News and Trends 26 Jan 2021

Oxford’s Covid-19 Vaccine Blazes Trail for Oncolytic Virus Firms

Since the debut of Imlygic in 2015, no other oncolytic virus cancer therapies have been approved by the FDA and EMA. However, we’re seeing the first signs that the Covid-19 pandemic may help the field get out of the rut. Earlier this month, the Oxford-based firm Theolytics raised €5.6M in a Series A round. This […]

January 26, 2021 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 15 Jan 2021

GSK Acne Deal Heralds Growing Interest in Skin Microbiome

This week, the Paris-based Eligo Bioscience became one of a growing number of biotechs to land a big pharma deal focused on the skin microbiome, receiving up to €185M from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as they explore a CRISPR-based treatment for acne. Acne is a condition that troubles the majority of adolescents and often persists into adulthood. […]

January 15, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Kostas Vavitsas

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News and Trends 22 Dec 2020

EMA Greenlights BioNTech and Pfizer mRNA Vaccine for Covid-19

BioNTech and Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, made from messenger RNA, has become the first of its kind to be approved by the EMA. The EMA has granted conditional approval to Comirnaty, a vaccine against Covid-19 developed by BioNTech and Pfizer. The approval comes weeks after the UK became the first country in the world to approve […]

December 22, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 21 Dec 2020

Late-Stage Success Raises Hopes to Tackle Alzheimer’s via Inflammation

Paris-based AB Science has scored a rare late-stage clinical triumph in the Alzheimer’s disease field with a drug that puts brakes on inflammation in the brain. Last week, AB Science reported successful results from a phase IIb/III clinical trial testing its drug masitinib in patients with mild to moderate symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Although the company […]

December 21, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

News and Trends 17 Dec 2020

Covid-19 Leaves Lasting Impact on Hematology at ASH 2020 Conference

Under the heavy shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, last week’s annual conference of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) displayed the achievements of many innovative treatments for blood conditions, including gene and cell therapies. A sweeping new wave of Covid-19 infections that is forcing new lockdowns across the northern hemisphere is already reshaping the biotech […]

December 17, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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News and Trends 14 Dec 2020

Will Europe Follow Singapore in Approving Cultured Meat?

Singapore is the first country to grant approval to meat grown from animal cells, known as cultured meat. Will European countries follow suit? Eat Just is a San Francisco-based company that sells plant-based alternatives to eggs and other animal products. The firm made headlines last week when it got regulatory approval to market cultured chicken […]

December 14, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Kostas Vavitsas

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News and Trends 9 Dec 2020

The Manufacturing Challenge to Meet Covid-19 Vaccine Demands

Companies developing vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics for Covid-19 are being forced to scale up manufacturing at high speed in order to meet the enormous demand. There has been an unprecedented amount of research carried out over the last year to develop vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tests to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Before Canada gave the […]

December 9, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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News and Trends 7 Dec 2020

Swiss Startup Tackles Tourette’s Syndrome Despite Recent Failures

In spite of recent failures of clinical trials from others in the field, Swiss company Noema Pharma is gearing up to develop better treatments for the neurological condition Tourette’s syndrome. Noema Pharma will use a recent €49M Series A round to bankroll the phase I development of a candidate for Tourette’s syndrome along with the […]

December 7, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 4 Dec 2020

EU Launches Pharma Strategy, Raising Both Hopes and Questions

The public’s response has been cautious after the European Union unveiled a pharmaceutical strategy last week designed to spur domestic innovation and the production of affordable, state-of-the-art therapies. Amid a boom in biotech funding driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Commission (EC) is scrambling to bring its sometimes fragmented pharma regulatory framework up to […]

December 4, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

News and Trends 27 Nov 2020

uniQure Stocks Up With First Phase III Results of Hemophilia B Gene Therapy

Gene therapies for the rare blood clotting disorder hemophilia B have taken a step closer to the market as Dutch developer uniQure became the first to release interim phase III results last week. Hemophilia is an inherited disease caused by mutations to genes encoding blood clotting proteins, resulting in uncontrollable bleeds. In severe cases of […]

November 27, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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EMA Green Light Sends Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Into Turbulent Market

HIV Drug Approvals Lift Hopes Amid Missed UN Targets

Oxford’s Covid-19 Vaccine Blazes Trail for Oncolytic Virus Firms

GSK Acne Deal Heralds Growing Interest in Skin Microbiome

EMA Greenlights BioNTech and Pfizer mRNA Vaccine for Covid-19

Late-Stage Success Raises Hopes to Tackle Alzheimer’s via Inflammation

Covid-19 Leaves Lasting Impact on Hematology at ASH 2020 Conference

Will Europe Follow Singapore in Approving Cultured Meat?

The Manufacturing Challenge to Meet Covid-19 Vaccine Demands

Swiss Startup Tackles Tourette’s Syndrome Despite Recent Failures

EU Launches Pharma Strategy, Raising Both Hopes and Questions

uniQure Stocks Up With First Phase III Results of Hemophilia B Gene Therapy

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