OncoDNA, the genomic and theranostic company specializing in precision medicine for the treatment of cancer and genetic diseases, will customize its interpretation platform OncoKDM to make it compatible with SOPHiA GENETICS’ AI-powered SOPHiA DDM™ platform. The combined offering will enable the analysis and automatic translation of complex genomic data obtained via SOPHiA DDM™ into actionable recommendations, empowering[…]
The current health crisis has highlighted the resilience that Belgian companies have shown to accelerate research and allow the development, in record time, of multiple therapeutic solutions to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. This social responsibility is the proof of the value that an innovative biopharmaceutical industry could bring with its expertise in dealing with an epidemic.[…]
A first-round funding of 3 millions euros has been raised by Vésale Bioscience, the spin-out of the Vésale Pharma group which focuses on phagotherapy. In order to increase its financial resources and reach the stock market, the group has hired beLean.net Partner Guillaume de Viron as Head of Finance for the phage therapy division. Co-founder of Univercells, former CFO of MaSTHerCell,[…]
Vésale Bioscience has hired Guillaume de Viron, Partner at beLean.net, as Chief Financial Officer in order to accelerate its IPO. As CFO, Guillaume de Viron will contribute to Vésale Bioscience, which is currently preparing its fundraising (10+ million €) with the aim of accelerating the production and marketing of phages. Phage therapy is the use of phages,[…]
Pharmaceutical companies used to be eager buyers of technology. But in recent years, biotech platforms have benefited from easier access to capital as independent entities, eliminating the need to sell. At the same time, biopharma companies large and small are realizing that building a platform is better than focusing on a single product or production[…]
Imcyse raises €21M and opens its capital to its new American partner, Pfizer. Very good news for the Liège-based biotech company Imcyse. Indeed, the biotech has developed an active immunotherapy technology that allows to tackle autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis. A licensing agreement has just been signed with[…]
Belgium and its companies at the forefront of the biotechnology industry in Europe Belgium is spearheading the European biotech industry. Meet some of the most successful cases of Belgian biotechnology companies. Belgium is one of the countries that provide the most to the biotech industry in Europe, as it has a total of more than[…]
Catalent Pharma takes over Delphi Genetics. The Gosselies BioPark will be its European Center of Excellence in Gene and Cell Therapy. Delphi Genetics is one of ULB‘s oldest spin-offs, created twenty years ago. The company, which employs around 40 people, is a pharmaceutical subcontracting company (CDMO) specializing in cell and gene therapies. Its mission is not to develop treatments,[…]
The Walloon Region Government to support the development of treatments at Novadip with 9.4M€ of non-dilutive funding Novadip Biosciences, a clinical-stage company developing treatments to regenerate damaged tissues in patients with significant unmet medical needs, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the designation of Rare Pediatric Disease and Orphan[…]
OUAT! recently raised 500k€ with the Innovation Fund. The capital infusion will support the further development of HakoBio and the roll out of the software to new clients. OUAT! aims to facilitate the digital transformation of the life sciences industry. In increasingly intelligent and connected factories, OUAT! enables the men and women of the biopharmaceutical industry to achieve[…]
Univercells Holding recently raises €70 million with two rounds of capital increase with new investors. The capital infusion will support the development of GMP facilities and the capacity to foster distributed manufacturing and supply of biologics. Univercells recently completed their Series C second close, bringing the total raised to €70 million. The financing, which was over-subscribed,[…]
Many large investors have already set their sights on the Walloon company Univercells. Among them stands out the American billionaire George Soros; famous financier and philanthropist at the age of 90, Adjuvant Capital; a fund linked to the Bill Gates galaxy, the federal government through SFPI, and the Walloon government through SRIW. Bill Gates, as[…]
PDC*line Pharma attended BIO-Europe® Digital this fall 2020. Check out the interview of its CEO Eric Halioua by a journalist in an on-demand “Fireside Chat”: he presents the company strategy and how the regional ecosystem has supported the company’s development on an international scale. Contact us to get more information:
Greenomy, the first regtech SaaS platform enabling companies and investors to comply with the new EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Regulation, has been selected as the International Laureate of the Fintech for Tomorrow Challenge 2020. This award acknowledges their ambition as technological facilitators to the implementation of the EU Taxonomy Regulation. By helping companies and investors to[…]
Savics has been nominated for the Prize D4D (Digital for Development) 2020. This ceremony organized by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) rewards outstanding initiatives that significantly contribute to the digital development in the South. These initiatives exploit the potential of (new) technologies in order to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) set by the United Nations. DataToCare was recognized in[…]
This is a world first in the field of orthopaedic surgery: surgeons at Cliniques universitaires de Saint-Luc repaired the tibia bone of a 5-year-old child using a bone graft implant, a technology developed by the UCLouvain spin-off Novadip Biosciences. The child had congenital nonunion of the tibia, a rare and disabling disease. He was[…]
Univercells has just completed a new funding round of around 50 million €. Among its investors, a fund linked to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has already helped the Walloon biotech on several occasions. The list of investors includes Adjuvant Global Health Technology Fund, a fund originally linked to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which[…]
Sanofi Pasteur has used digital twin technologies and Virtual Reality through HakoBio to design their new Evolutive Vaccine Facility. HakoBio online platform is developed by our customer OUAT! The reasons why Sanofi Pasteur has accelerated the design of its Evolutive Vaccine Facility using digital twins are: Sanofi Pasteur used digital twin technologies through HakoBio to model its new facility and democratize[…]
How digital twins facilitate access to the factory of tomorrow Webinar / 19.06.2020 Discover through a real-life case study how Pall Biotech is using the 3D digital twin to simplify conceptual design of new facilities, accelerate decisions and reduce errors. You can directly access the webinar HERE or read a short summary below first. Smart applications have made[…]
Digital Orthopaedics is an innovative e-Health company providing a comprehensive Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for musculoskeletal pathologies, for the foot and ankle in particular. Digital Orthopaedics’ ambition is to transform the planning and execution of orthopedic surgeries and treatment with the ultimate goal of personalizing orthopedic treatments through the innovative use of ideation, modeling and 3D[…]