Sharing Life Sciences Innovations
Closing the gender gap in biotech funding
Companies with a good gender balance consistently outperform those with only men in their management teams. Yet despite this, start-ups with female founders and management team members are consist…
Battling antibiotic resistance: are we ready for a bacteriophage revival?
The discovery of antibiotics fundamentally changed healthcare in the 20th century. Deadly infections suddenly became treatable and millions of lives were saved. But excessive antibiotic use in bot…
Women in STEM: fixing the leaky pipeline
Happy International Women’s Day! This year, in honor of the day, we’ve decided to highlight an important and personal topic: the lack of women in STEM. The problem is complicated and leads to a lo…
Orphan CNS diseases receive attention with new Minoryx site in Belgium
The Spanish start-up Minoryx Therapeutics recently opened a subsidiary in Belgium to further their research on treatments for rare and orphan diseases. Co-founder and CEO Marc Martinell spoke to B…
Microbiome linked to depression in a groundbreaking Benelux study
The microbiome had been at the forefront of a lot of research and news in the past few years. Now, a new study published in Nature Microbiology has linked specific microbiome changes with depressi…
From scientist to entrepreneur: how a Belgian chromatography company came to be
Pharmafluidics is a Belgian company rethinking the fundamentals of liquid chromatography. Introducing a fundamentally new type of stationary phase in its chip-etched columns represented a major in…
AuXin Surgery Announces the Launch of its new CADISS System for Selective Dissection in Surgery
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 7 February 2019 – AuXin Surgery, a medical device company, announces that it has obtained CE Class III certification for its novel CADISS® System for the surgery of chro…
Inari’s agricultural revolution hits Europe with a new site in Ghent
Inari, a U.S. company revolutionizing agricultural R&D, have just opened up their first overseas office in Ghent, Belgium. Partnering with Belgian life sciences and agriculture institutes VIB and …
Pharmafluidics’ new product launch steers ‘on-a-chip’ separations of complex biological samples to new heights
PharmaFluidics NV is a game-changing innovator in the field of analytical chromatography. The company has devised a fundamentally new way of performing separations by creating nano-LC columns on a…
Biocartis raises EUR 55.50 million
Biocartis Group NV (the "Company" or "Biocartis"), an innovative molecular diagnostics company (Euronext Brussels: BCART), announces today that it successfully raised an amount of EUR 55.50 millio…
Are we spending too much money on cancer drugs?
November is classically the month where immunotherapy takes center stage, especially at the annual conference of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC, endearingly pronounced sitsie). Imm…
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Upcoming events
JLABS event: Going Up - Successful Elevator Pitches and Investor Interactions
Radisson Blu Astrid Hotel
Koningin Astridplein 7
Antwerp 2018
Wed 03 Apr 2019
11:30
It can be tricky to communicate the full potential of your discoveries without spilling the secret sauce. Join us for an in-depth workshop on navigating relations with investors. In this works…
Global Engage Microbiome & Probiotics Series: Europe
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (venue TBA)
Mon 20 May 2019 - Wed 22 May 2019
20 May 08:00
- 22 May 18:00
Part of the leading global microbiome and probiotics conference series, the 2019 European event will bring together more than 300 industry, academic, and investment leaders to discuss the must cut…
