Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

BI Venture Funds invests in oncolytic bacteria

With an investment of its venture arm (BI-VF), Boehringer Ingelheim underlines its committment to expand the reach of cancer immune therapies. The Series A financing in Chinese Synthetica Pioneering that engineers oncolytic bacteria to deliver toxic payloads or modulators of the tumour environment to solid tumours follows an investment in T3 Pharmaceuticals.

Gourmey files first EU application for cell-based meat

Not the German InFamily Foods subsidiary The Cultivated B, but Gourmey SAS, founded in Paris in 2019 by Antoine Davydoff, Nicolas Morin-Forest and Victor Sayous, has submitted the first EU authorisation application for a cell-based meat product, a duck liver pâté (Foie gras), to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

New targets for incurable blood cancer

A research consortium led by Charité in Berlin has found a protein pattern in 100 patients with the common blood cancer multiple myeloma and 38 healthy controls that independently identifies a poor prognosis and provides new targets for treating the incurable disease.