Hydrogel fights wound infection and inflammation
Swedish and Danish researchers have created a hydrogel that kills various types of bacteria and reduces inflammation in mice and pigs with infected wounds.
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British diagnostics play OBD lands contract with US pharma
The technology of Oxford-based Oxford Biodynamics (OBD) promises insights into why immunotherapies only work in some patients but not in all. A major US pharma company now wants to validate OBD’s epigenetic biomarker discovery and development platform causing a share price gain of 15%.
Truffle’s BioMedTech fund filled with 250m
Paris-based European venture capital company Truffle Capital closed its 250m BioMedTech fund celebrating its company building approach.
Biomarker identifies residual congestion in heart failure patients
Data from 1,200 heart failure patients demonstrate that high discharge levels of the biomarker bio-ADM® (bioactive Adrenomedullin) indicate residual congestion in heart failure patients.
Belgian start-up takes fight on neuropathies
The new company, named Augustine Therapeutics, is a Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) and Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven spin-off. Funded with 4.2m from mainly local investors, Augustine’s first priority is finding new therapeutics for patients suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system.
Second clinical failure of Transgene in 2019
French Transgene SA said it has terminated its lead programme TG4010 in combination with chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibition.
Microbiota contribute to skin damage in cancer therapy
New research demonstrates that disruption of EGF receptor signalling allows commensal bacteria to invade hairs and cause skin lesions.
BIOncoTech Therapeutics and MSD combine cancer drugs
Madrid-based RNA specialist Bioncotech Therapeutics has entered into a Phase II clinical trial collaboration with a MSD subsidiary.
Urokinase clears blot clots in stroke patients
Swiss surgeons have significantly improved mechanical removal of blood clots in stroke patients by intra-arterial administration of the thromolytic urokinase.