Advent France Biotechnology’s has launched a second biotech seed fund with a first close at €86m. Since 2017, the French state fund has financed 15 startups in France, Spain, Belgium and Ireland with €68m.


Early phase clinical trials require expert support, often across many service areas and specialisms. Recruitment for trials can be complicated, with less flexibility and higher costs as you attempt to acquire top talent on a project-only basis. That’s why CROs are becoming increasingly indispensable. CROs offer fully formed, multi-skilled teams ready to go, who you can bring on board as and when needed.

Post-Brexit, UK ditches the strict EU regulation for genetic engineering: in future, gene-edited crops will be assessed just like any other new variety, the government said.

The past two years could be called the years of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, with two major biotech companies, BioNTech and Moderna, playing a crucial role in the development of vaccines against COVID-19 and showing the world the way out of the pandemic, along with achieving record sales revenues.

A comparison of immune correlates of AstraZeneca’s Phase II/III  COVID-19 vaccine trial shows what antibodiy titer is required to prevent symptomatic disease.

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon and the basic structural element of other allotropes such as graphite and carbon nanotubes. It’s one of the lightest materials known and the strongest compound discovered. With its exceptional mechanical stiffness, strength, elasticity, high surface area and outstanding electrical and thermal conductivity, Graphene is ideal for use in electronics, sensors, biomedical technologies, protective coatings, energy and composite applications.

Single cell multiomics has the capacity to address key challenges to developing cell and gene therapies, specifically CAR T-cell therapies. Hear how leading cancer immunotherapy researchers are using these approaches for characterizing the leukapheresis and infusion product, studying the evolution of the cell product in vivo, identifying and defining mechanisms of resistance, and discovering next-generation cell therapies.

AstraZeneca has teamed up with RNA vaccine and therapeutic developer VaxEquity, investing US$195m in milestone payments alone.

The EIF has invested €25m in the Prague-based i&i Biotech Fund I to boost biomedical tech transfer in Austria and Eastern Europe.

The largest biotech event organised by a national bioindustry association (AseBio) in Europe and one of the biggest in the world will take place from 27 September to 1 October. To be held in Pamplona-Iruña, the capital of the region of Navarra, and a scientific cluster for biotechnology, BioSpain will feature
a combination of on-site networking opportunities and site visits, an online trade show, presentations,
and panels that will be accessible simultaneously on-site and online.