Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

VarmX raises €12.5m

VarmX will use the combination of a €7.5m Series A financing co-led by BioGeneration Ventures (BGV) and Dutch regional development company InnovationQuarter plus an €5m innovation credit from  the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) to develop a modified blood coagulation factor X to prevent severe bleeding in haemophilia patients.

GMO acreage growing globally

Agribiotech lobby group ISAAA reports that global GMO acreage has grown to 189.8 million hectares in 2017 -3% or 4.7 million hectares more than in 2016.

Microbial game-changers

How do novel technologies affect the world’s largest enzyme producer? At the GBS, European Biotechnology asked Thomas Videbaeck, PhD, COO and Executive VP Research, Innovation and Supply.

Afatinib push back K-RAS-positive lung cancer

A team of Austrian, Hungarian and Canadian researchers has demonstrated that Boehringer Ingelheim’s FDA-approved ERB family kinase blocker afatinib prolonged survival in hard-to-treat K-RAS-mutated lung tumours.