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Elemental impurities: The pharmaceutical industry is up against the wall

Elemental impurities: The pharmaceutical industry is up against the wall

Quality Assistance is ready for the onslaught of requests for the assessment of elemental impurities in substances used in the development and manufacture of new (and existing) medicinal products. In less than 2 months, all new [...]

Biomanufacturing: Walloon player Novasep offers now all the CDMO services!

Biomanufacturing: Walloon player Novasep offers now all the CDMO services!

In 2016 and beyond, biomanufacturing will be high among the BioWin pole priorities. A sector in which Wallonia has no shortage of qualified players and resources to ensure it is well placed to meet future challenges. [...]

Biobanking: a vital asset for Belgium scientific excellence

Biobanking: a vital asset for Belgium scientific excellence

In 2014, three French-speaking universities of Belgium (UCL, ULB, ULg, in association with UMons and UNamur) joined forces, with the support of DG06, Innoviris and BioWin, to create the Biothèque Wallonie Bruxelles (BWB), the network of [...]

Walloon Biotech and Medtech companies: should you go for an IPO?

Walloon Biotech and Medtech companies: should you go for an IPO?

Initial Public Offerings tend to become a real alternative for more and more European biotech companies. In Wallonia (Belgium), several SMEs (such as Mithra Pharmaceuticals) are seriously considering this option while companies such as Celyad, Bone [...]

MaSTherCell or the future of CMOs

MaSTherCell or the future of CMOs

In an exclusive interview, Hugues Bultot, Chief Executive Officer of MaSTherCell, an emerging pioneer in the industrialization of cell-based therapeutics, based in Gosselies (Belgium) shares with us his vision for the future of the CMO.   [...]

Tools4Patient: design and delivery of personalized pain treatments

Tools4Patient: design and delivery of personalized pain treatments

Tools4Patient, a company founded in 2013 and located in Gosselies (Belgium) is specialized in the development of multimodal companion diagnostics. This creative company recently met its first challenging milestone and thus delivered as planned its first [...]

Delphi Genetics signs international research partnership in the US

Delphi Genetics signs international research partnership in the US

Delphi Genetics S.A., a Walloon SME located in Gosselies (Belgium) partners with US company Avaxia (Lexington, Massachusetts) to develop an improved biomolecules manufacturing and immunization process for Avaxia’s lead product candidate which is in clinical development [...]

ImmunXperts: launch of a unique fully integrated Immunogenicity service provider for biotherapeutics.

ImmunXperts: launch of a unique fully integrated Immunogenicity service provider for biotherapeutics.

ImmunXperts s.a. a start-up located in Gosselies (Belgium) and specializing in the development of proprietary and innovative methods to assess the immunogenicity of novel biotherapeutics and biosimilars has raised USD 1 million in equity and bank [...]

BioWin: an effective Cluster for innovation in health

BioWin: an effective Cluster for innovation in health

  Guest blogger: Anne-Laure Languille A study conducted by the firm M5 closely examined results obtained by BioWin, the health cluster of Wallonia. The conclusions state the positive impact of the cluster in four key domains: [...]

From Belgium to Boston: Ipratech (Mons) storms the American biocellular market!

From Belgium to Boston: Ipratech (Mons) storms the American biocellular market!

Since January of 2013, a commercial subsidiary of Ipratech(Mons, Belgium) has been up and running on America’s east coast. Thanks to the support of Sofinex, (subsidiary of the group Sowalfin,Wallonnia Region), a group endorsing the internationalization [...]