In 2017, Karen Kostroff, a renowned oncology surgeon at Northwell Health in the New York Metropolitan area added a new talking point to her standard conversation with breast cancer patients facing tumor removal surgery. These conversations are never easy, because a cancer diagnosis is devastating news...
Flamingo Therapeutics was born out of a collaboration between three partners in Flanders – VIB, UGent and KU Leuven – and the University of Michigan in the US. “The foundations of the company were laid in 2016, when the research groups of prof. Pieter Mestdagh at UGent and prof. Jean-Christophe Marine at VIB and KU Leuven published a paper revealing a connection between...
Flamingo werd vorig jaar opgericht als spin-off van het Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), de KU Leuven en UGent, maar opereerde tot nu toe onder de radar. Met een verregaande alliantie met het Californische biotechbedrijf Ionis treedt het bedrijf nu naar buiten...
As the biggest name in antisense technology, Ionis has long focused on testing the interplay between oligonucleotides and RNA for therapeutic effect. But one class of RNA has mostly stumped researchers...