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News and Trends 4 Sep 2019

US Genomics Firm Combines with Curetis to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

The German biotech Curetis has been combined with the US genomics company OpGen to pool their molecular diagnostics expertise in the fight against antibiotic resistance. “After more than one year of intensive discussions and negotiations for many months, it feels great to be able to announce the transaction today,” Oliver Schacht, the CEO of Curetis, […]

September 4, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 3 Sep 2019

Gyroscope Targets Age-Related Blindness with €55M Series B

UK gene therapy biotech Gyroscope Therapeutics has secured €55.4M in Series B funding to target age-related macular degeneration. Life sciences investor Syncona, which is backed by the UK’s Wellcome Trust, continued its support of the company contributing €52.7M to the round. This brings its total investment in Gyroscope to €90M since the biotech was founded […]

September 3, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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News and Trends 3 Sep 2019

UK Biotech’s Personalized Immunotherapy gets €110M Series B Boost

The UK company Achilles Therapeutics has raised €110M (£100M) to test its personalized cancer cell immunotherapies in humans for the first time. The large Series B round will fund two phase I/IIa clinical trials of Achilles’ preclinical immunotherapy which are expected to start this year: one in non-small cell lung cancer and the other in […]

September 3, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 29 Aug 2019

HiFiBiO’s €60M Series C to Fund Cancer and Autoimmune Disease Antibody Drugs

The French biotech HiFiBiO has raised €60M in a Series C round to finance the development of antibody drugs for cancer and autoimmune diseases based on its single-cell screening technology. HiFiBiO will use the money to accelerate the progress of its drugs to clinical trials, though it has not specified when it plans to begin […]

August 29, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 29 Aug 2019

Off-the-Shelf Kidney Cancer Immunotherapy More Than Doubles Recovery in Phase II

An off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapy developed by the Swedish biotech Immunicum has eradicated kidney tumors in 11% of treated patients compared with just 4% of patients given standard treatments in a phase II trial. Immunicum is developing a cell immunotherapy to treat metastatic renal cell carcinoma. This advanced form of kidney cancer is particularly hard to […]

August 29, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 28 Aug 2019

Type 1 Diabetes Immunotherapy Shows Promise in Phase I

An immunotherapy designed by the Belgian biotech Imcyse to prevent type 1 diabetes has shown signs of clinical benefits and no major safety issues in a phase I trial. The phase I trial recruited 41 patients newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Imcyse injected the patients with different doses of its treatment and monitored the […]

August 28, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 28 Aug 2019

Celgene and Immatics Sign Deal Worth Over €1.35B to Develop Cancer Immunotherapies

The US company Celgene has obtained options to three cancer immunotherapy programs from the German biotech Immatics in a deal worth more than €1.35B ($1.5B). Immatics is to receive an upfront payment of €67.5M ($75M), along with up to €455M ($505M) in developmental milestones and royalties for each immunotherapy program. In each program, Immatics will […]

August 28, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 27 Aug 2019

Swedish Ulcerative Colitis Treatment Makes Phase II Comeback

InDex Pharmaceuticals’ ulcerative colitis drug candidate has achieved positive phase IIb results, suggesting work to improve its dosage after a previous phase III failure was successful. The Swedish company tested different doses of the small molecule drug cobitolimod against a placebo in patients with the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis. The 213 patients in the […]

August 27, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 22 Aug 2019

Two-Drug HIV Therapy Given Every 2 Months Proves Effective in Phase III

An experimental HIV therapy being developed by GSK spinoff ViiV Healthcare in partnership with Janssen has proven it is as effective when given every two months as when given once a month. “For the first time since the AIDS epidemic started more than 30 years ago, our study has demonstrated that it is possible to […]

August 22, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 22 Aug 2019

Austrian Vaccine Developer Signs Deal with MSD in ‘Blockbuster Indication’

Vienna-based Themis Bioscience will develop vaccine candidates against an undisclosed disease target in partnership with big pharma Merck Sharp & Dohme. As part of the agreement, MSD will provide research funding and make an equity investment in Themis Bioscience. In addition, Themis will be eligible to receive up to €200M in milestones, in addition to […]

August 22, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 20 Aug 2019

Nabriva Therapeutics Gets FDA Green Light for Pneumonia Antibiotic

The US FDA has approved Nabriva Therapeutics’ Xenleta for treating community-acquired bacterial pneumonia, the first in a new class of antibiotics developed to treat this condition. Xenleta, also known as lefamulin, was discovered almost 10 years ago by Nabriva Therapeutics, a spinout company from Novartis split between Austria, Ireland and the US. The approval is […]

August 20, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

News and Trends 16 Aug 2019

First Potential Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Early Promise

A vaccine targeting the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia, which would be the first of its kind if approved, has proved safe and able to stimulate the immune system in a phase I trial. In the phase I trial, the vaccine was injected into 35 healthy women. Blood samples from the volunteers were then measured to […]

August 16, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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US Genomics Firm Combines with Curetis to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

Gyroscope Targets Age-Related Blindness with €55M Series B

UK Biotech’s Personalized Immunotherapy gets €110M Series B Boost

HiFiBiO’s €60M Series C to Fund Cancer and Autoimmune Disease Antibody Drugs

Off-the-Shelf Kidney Cancer Immunotherapy More Than Doubles Recovery in Phase II

Type 1 Diabetes Immunotherapy Shows Promise in Phase I

Celgene and Immatics Sign Deal Worth Over €1.35B to Develop Cancer Immunotherapies

Swedish Ulcerative Colitis Treatment Makes Phase II Comeback

Two-Drug HIV Therapy Given Every 2 Months Proves Effective in Phase III

Austrian Vaccine Developer Signs Deal with MSD in ‘Blockbuster Indication’

Nabriva Therapeutics Gets FDA Green Light for Pneumonia Antibiotic

First Potential Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Early Promise

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