Medicon Valley Biomedical Newsletter
The Medicon Valley Biomedical Newsletter is intended for decision makers in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, investors and other professionals who wish to keep updated on business related activities in the Medicon Valley.
September 2005
New international Medicon Valley website
This week, the new www.mediconvalley.com website is launched. The site is created by the regional investment promotion agencies Copenhagen Capacity and Position Skåne in collaboration with Medicon Valley Academy. The purpose of the site is to promote Medicon Valley internationally and to create business contacts between life science companies in Medicon Valley and companies around the world.
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In relation to the launch of www.mediconvalley.com, Copenhagen Capacity, Position Skåne and Medicon Valley Academy wish to collaborate on the production and coordination of newsletters.
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DermaGen, a Novel Company Developing Antimicrobial Peptides
4 Aug 2005
DermaGen AB intends to develop novel antimicrobial peptides and formulations for the treatment and prevention of bacterial and fungal infections. The company will initially focus on topical applicatio...
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Grant for Malaria Research
28 Jul 2005
Associate Professor Anja Jensen from the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at University of Copenhagen has received a grant of USD 400,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ...
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Grant for Research into Metallothionins
18 Jul 2005
Associate Professor Milena Penkowa from the Medical Faculty at University of Copenhagen has received a private donation of USD 900,000 towards her research into diseases of the brain. Milena Pe...
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Grant for Research into Tuberculosis
18 Jul 2005
Associate Professor Ole Lund from the Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis, CBS, at the Technical University of Denmark has received a grant of USD 1.2 million from the EU. The grant will go toward...
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Research Grant for Cancer Gene Therapy
29 Aug 2005
Hans Skovgaard Poulsen, MD, DMSci, and his research team from Copenhagen University Hospital have developed an in vitro gene therapy against small cell lung cancer. If the treatment is effective in mi...
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7TM Pharma adds Johnson & Johnson Development Corp. to its Investor Group
22 Aug 2005
7TM Pharma has expanded its investor base with the inclusion of Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, JJDC. JJDC's investment in the company, combined with investments from current investors ...
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AstraZeneca and Astex announce new Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery Alliance
4 Aug 2005
AstraZeneca and UK-based Astex Therapeutics Limited have announced a new alliance for the discovery, development and commercialization of novel small molecule inhibitors of Protein Kinase B, PKB, for ...
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AstraZeneca and Avanir Enter Global Alliance
28 Jul 2005
AstraZeneca has entered into an exclusive global licensing and research collaboration agreement with US-based Avanir Pharmaceuticals for the discovery, development and commercialisation of Reverse Cho...
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AstraZeneca and Schering Announce Collaboration and Licensing Agreement
1 Aug 2005
AstraZeneca and Schering AG, Germany, have entered into a research collaboration and licensing agreement in the area of Selective Glucocorticoid Receptor Agonists, SEGRAs, which represent a new class ...
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Bavarian Nordic initiates Phase II clinical trials with IMVAMUNE
25 Jul 2005
Bavarian Nordic A/S has initiated a Phase II trial to investigate the safety and immunogenicity of IMVAMUNE in HIV infected subjects. The trial, involving 150 volunteers, being conducted at five sites...
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DakoCytomation and Clarient Sign Distribution and Development Agreement
21 Jul 2005
DakoCytomation A/S and US-based Clarient Inc. have jointly announced the signing of a five-year Distribution and Development Agreement that allows DakoCytomation to distribute Clarient's digital cellu...
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DiLab enters Distribution Agreement with Bio Research Center
25 Aug 2005
DiLab AB in Lund has signed a distributor agreement with Japanese company Bio Research Center for distribution of its AccuSampler products in Japan. Japan is one of the largest markets in preclinical ...
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CMC Biopharmaceuticals receives EMEA Approval for In-market Manufacture
22 Aug 2005
CMC Biopharmaceuticals A/S has expanded its European Manufacturing Authorisation to include in-market supply of biopharmaceuticals. The approval follows last year's approval of CMC's new state...
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Gambro enters Distribution and Promotion Agreement with Baxter
21 Jul 2005
Gambro AB will strengthen its global haemodialysis, HD, business through a distribution and promotion agreement with Baxter. Under the terms of the agreement Baxter will distribute and promote Gambro&...
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Genmab and Serono announce Development and Commercialisation Agreement
22 Aug 2005
Genmab A/S and Swiss-based Serono have announced an agreement under which Genmab has granted Serono exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialise Genmab's HuMax-CD4. HuMax-CD4 is a fully hum...
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Genmab Initiates HuMax-CD20 Phase II Study in Rheumatoid Arthritis
18 Aug 2005
Genmab A/S has initiated a Phase II study with HuMax-CD20 to treat patients with active rheumatoid arthritis, RA, who have failed one treatment with one or more disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs,...
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MediCult enters into an Acquirement Agreement with CGA Strumenti Scientifici
5 Sep 2005
MediCult A/S and its Italian distributor CGA Strumenti Scientifici, S.p.A have agreed to form a new sales and distribution company for in vitro fertilisation, IVF, products in Italy. MediCult will own...
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MIP Technologies Raises Capital
25 Aug 2005
MIP Technologies AB has announced the completion of another round of financing totalling USD 4 million. Catella Healthcare Investments AB, a new investor, was responsible for the majority of the inves...
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Nanosep receives Novel Patent
15 Aug 2005
Nanosep AB has received a US patent for a cost-effective technique for separation of molecules that is an important step within proteomics. The technique is applicable on existing equipment in the res...
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Pharmexa obtains Global License to use Provax from Biogen Idec
1 Sep 2005
Pharmexa A/S has entered into a global, non-exclusive license to use Biogen Idec's Provax adjuvant in Pharmexa's products. The parties have agreed not to disclose the commercial terms of the l...
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Symphogen and Cambridge Antibody Technology sign Patent Licensing Agreement
25 Aug 2005
Symphogen A/S has entered into a patent license agreement with UK-based Cambridge Antibody Technology, CAT. Under the terms of the agreement, Symphogen is granted a license to use CAT´s antibod...
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TopoTarget and NeuroSearch expand collaboration within Cancer Treatment
1 Sep 2005
TopoTarget A/S and NeuroSearch A/S have expanded their collaboration by signing a development and licensing agreement regarding preclinical and clinical development of the NeuroSearch compound NSD-551...
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TopoTarget receives Milestone Payment from CuraGen
18 Aug 2005
TopoTarget A/S has received a USD 4.8 million milestone payment from US-based CuraGen Corporation as the ongoing Phase II clinical trial of PXD101 in the treatment of the serious blood cancer known as...
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Trial Form Support Acquires Clinical Data Care
15 Aug 2005
Swedish CRO Trial Form Support International, TFS, AB has acquired Clinical Data Care, based in Lund, Sweden. The acquisition makes TFS the largest CRO in Scandinavia and one of the largest in Europe....
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Zealand Pharma completes Second Stage of its International Financing
1 Sep 2005
Zealand Pharma A/S has announced the completion of the second stage of its C-financing round of USD 15.8 million, bringing the total financing to USD 34 million. The financing was completed based on Z...
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