investors," Justin Gover, CEO told BioWorld International

Ninety-five percent of them get acquired – that's just a given," Jan De Kerpel, analyst at KBC Securities in Brussels, Belgium, told BioWorld International

Matthew Berriman, a co-author of the paper, and group leader for parasite genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, told BioWorld International: "This work lays everything out for the entire tapeworm research community to mine, and provides a shortcut to drug discovery

Ravi Anand, chief medical officer at Milan, Italy-based Newron told BioWorld International

By the end, we hope to have a lead candidate, know the mode of action and be ready to consider clinical development," Thompson told BioWorld International

Company (Location) Funding Institution Amount (US$M) Type Details Date OCTOBER Addex Therapeutics SA (Geneva) Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation CHF0.7 ($0.748) Grant For development of allosteric modulators for neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases 10/3/12 Advanced Cancer Therapeutics Inc. (Louisville, Ky.) National Cancer Institute $0.158 Phase I SBIR grant To support the development of an inhibitor of glycolysis targeting 6-phosphofructo-2 kinase/fructose 2,6-biphosphatase 3

Ivan Ahel, group leader at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Manchester in the UK, told BioWorld International: "The question is, can we intentionally inhibit this protein and others that operate in the same pathway

When we approached him, his view was, 'This is a company with an excellent shot at commercializing cell therapies and that's what I want to do.' So he's completely committed to the cause," CEO Gregg Sando told BioWorld International...Cell Medica is expanding operations after raising $26.5 million in July 2012 in a mixture of public and private funding, including a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, under which it is setting up a manufacturing facility and will run a

Mikael Bronnegard, CEO of Lund, Sweden-based NeuroVive, told BioWorld International that the company has yet to decide whether to take that forward itself or to seek a partner...handed back to Biotica almost two years ago. (See BioWorld International, Aug. 10, 2011.)

Ivan Ahel, group leader at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Manchester in the UK, told BioWorld International: "The question is, can we intentionally inhibit this protein and others that operate in the same pathway

The de-risking of the Biomedical Catalyst grants is attracting new investors," he told BioWorld International

There are certain elements that require protection, mainly related to personal patient data," an EMA spokeswoman told BioWorld International...I don't want to comment on that until the heads of argument are available," AbbVie spokesman Dirk Van Eeden told BioWorld International

handed back to Biotica almost two years ago. (See BioWorld International, Aug. 10, 2011.)

You definitely have to do confirmatory studies to confirm it," Vadsholt told BioWorld International

You definitely have to do confirmatory studies to confirm it," Vadsholt told BioWorld International

We wanted to keep our options open on ALX-0061, and this now allows us to carry on with preparations for the next trial," CEO Edwin Moses told BioWorld International

One of the takeaways from the Avanir experience is that when a partner has a chance to look at the molecules and see that they are differentiated – that they are getting better properties from the deuterated compound than from the non-deuterated agent – that can create a lot of excitement," Tung told BioWorld International

Speaking from the conference, Alastair Kent, director of Genetic Alliance UK, told BioWorld International: "This is good news

Catharina Lavebratt, associate professor in the department of molecular medicine and surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, told BioWorld International: "We have found a genetic variant that doubles the risk of developing psychotic features among people with bipolar disorder