Euro Biotech Network is a Boston-based group of biotech professionals dedicated to bringing the European and Boston area biotech communities closer through various programs! Email: eurobiotech@gmail.com. We are keen to assist European biotech professionals as they are exploring the Boston and will organize frequent meetings with European visitors.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

bioday 06 in Geneva

An early announcement of bioday 06 that will take place in Geneva around the World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology - March 27-30. The goal of the meeting is to highlight key technologies and startups of the Lake Leman area as well as to foster collaborations in a network-oriented atmosphere!

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

PharmaLive: Xigen Closes Its Series A Financing Round with CHF 26m (21m USD)

A nice press release about a Swiss-based company working on intracellular peptide therapeutics for the treatment of stroke, myocardial infarction and cancer. They have been at it for a while and this first round comes as a major achievement for the team that started at CHUV.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

One of our founders in the news!

Check out this article in Mass High Tech about Cellicon, the drug discovery company that Guillaume Cottarel heads. Guillaume is a driving force behind our efforts to promote European Biotech in the Boston area and foster stronger links!

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

BioTechBlog - info on European biotech

Excellent web site - but mostly in French - about European biotech activities including a recent post on the main players in the European space. Check the BioTechBlog

Friday, June 10, 2005

Article on outsourcing... oops I meant partnership!

Life sciences starts to be ripe for starting to use offshore partners for development. There is not a major crisis here yet on this but people are definitely careful about mentioning this too loud as the article below clearly explains.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Overview of European Biotech

Good overview of what's going on in European Biotech these days with a country by country description and also news about developments in VC, etc.. Check Science Mag Article

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Serono and NovImmune to Collaborate in Development of Two Novel Treatments for Autoimmune Diseases

Two Swiss companies have entered into an agreement. Well-known Serono will license drugs from Novimmune, a Geneva-based product development company focusing on immune mechanisms in order to clinically impact Immune Related Diseases, Inflammation and Organ transplantation.

Serono and NovImmune to Collaborate in Development of Two Novel Treatments for Autoimmune Diseases