V-Bio Ventures portfolio company Confo Therapeutics Announces Global Licensing Agreement with Lilly for Peripheral Pain Candidate, CFTX-1554 Confo to receive upfront and milestone payments totaling $630M Company is eligible for up to $590M in additional milestones if […] March 2, 2023 · V-Bio Ventures
CMT Research Foundation (USA) collaborates with Augustine Therapeutics on new therapy against Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Leuven, Belgium, 02 March 2023 – Augustine Therapeutics announces a collaboration with the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Research Foundation (CMTRF) in the USA. CMTRF […] March 2, 2023 · Quality by Design - Business & Communications
How to integrate patient perspectives in innovation After recovering from metastatic colon cancer, Stefan Gijssels became a patient advocate dedicated to improving the healthcare system that saved […] February 22, 2023 · MEDVIA
Femtech: Breaking barriers in women’s health through innovation and investment Femtech is a growing field that has rapidly expanded from niche market to global ecosystem. From period-tracking apps and smart […] February 22, 2023 · BioVox
The hype cycle in life sciences investments: go with the flow or fight the current? Everyone in the investment business is familiar with the phenomenon of technology hypes. These trends tend to come and go […] February 22, 2023 · V-Bio Ventures
Data science – taking clinical drug development to the next level Clinical drug development is a challenging endeavor, but help is at hand! From trial site selection, to patient recruitment, to […] February 22, 2023 · Janssen Pharmaceutica
Coave Therapeutics: redecorating viral vectors for improved gene therapies Coave Therapeutics is a French biotech developing gene therapies for neurodegenerative and ocular diseases. The company has developed a technology […] January 25, 2023 · V-Bio Ventures
Brewing up a new business: AB InBev surprises with ambitions for animal-free proteins Belgian-American AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has set up a separate R&D division called BioBrew to develop animal-free proteins […] January 25, 2023 · BioVox
Energizing the transition: ACROBAT consortium devises smart and sustainable ways to recycle LFP batteries Batteries are a crucial component of the energy transition away from fossil fuels, but the technology currently faces issues with […] January 25, 2023 · BioVox
The chaos of choice: how do people pick their food products? Every family needs groceries, and most people regularly venture to the supermarket to gather supplies. If researchers can help shoppers […] January 25, 2023 · SciMingo
Great at small things: BCCM stores microorganisms, plasmids, hybridomas, and more! BCCM is a Belgian non-profit consortium of seven biological resource centers preserving and distributing microbial and genetic resources, offering storage […] December 14, 2022 · Quality by Design - Business & Communications
Why diversity matters in management teams, and how to achieve it The biotech industry is suffering from a serious talent shortage, with start-ups in particular having an increasingly hard time filling […] December 14, 2022 · V-Bio Ventures
Stew before you chew – why the way you cook pulses makes a difference to your nutrition Do you look at the composition or caloric content of foods to make healthy choices? In healthy foods, not only […] December 14, 2022 · SciMingo
MedTech Flanders becomes part of MEDVIA, Flanders’ healthtech spearhead cluster Ghent, Belgium, 13 December 2022 – MEDVIA was founded in 2021 as Flanders’ spearhead cluster focused on health technologies. It is […] December 13, 2022 · MEDVIA
From multiple pills per day to one treatment per month: progress in HIV medication made possible by pharma collaborations Unprecedented collaborations between different pharmaceutical companies have resulted in extraordinary progress for HIV patients over the past four decades. From […] December 5, 2022 · Janssen Pharmaceutica