Pronota is to receive patent on bio­marker for diag­nos­t­ing renal fail­ure in the US despite Prometheus

Ghent, Belgium – 6 June 2013 – The United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) has allowed Pronota’s patent for the use of a blood-based bio­marker LG3 in the decision-making process for the treat­ment of renal dys­func­tion. This is a major step for­ward for Pronota as it recon­firms the patentabil­ity of the use of bio­mark­ers. More… »

Prosensa Holding B.V. files Registration Statement for pro­posed Initial Public Offering

Leiden, the Netherlands—May 28, 2013 — Prosensa Holding B.V., today announced that it has filed a reg­is­tra­tion state­ment on Friday May 24, 2013 on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relat­ing to the pro­posed ini­tial pub­lic offer­ing of its ordi­nary shares. The num­ber of shares to be offered and the price range for the offer­ing have not been deter­mined.
J.P. Morgan and Citigroup are act­ing as joint book-running man­agers for the offer­ing. Leerink Swann is act­ing as lead man­ager and Wedbush PacGrow Life Sciences and KBC Securities are act­ing as co-managers. More… »

Better diag­no­sis of acute heart fail­ure using Pronota’s novel bio­marker

Ghent, Belgium, 18 april 2013 – Two inde­pen­dent val­i­da­tion stud­ies demon­strate that Pronota’s bio­marker CD146 sig­nif­i­cantly improves the diag­no­sis of acute heart fail­ure for patients with short­ness of breath. The bio­marker, mea­sured in blood, pro­vides clin­i­cians with unique addi­tional infor­ma­tion allow­ing bet­ter treat­ment of this chal­leng­ing group of patients. More… »

UMCG per­forms ‘test run’ on donor liv­ers before trans­plan­ta­tion

Groningen, The Netherlands, 15 maart 2013 - Groningen to be the first to keep a liver warm out­side a human body. Researchers and liver sur­geons at the University Medical Center in Groningen in the Netherlands have been the first to suc­cess­fully keep a liver at body tem­per­a­ture out­side a human body. With this tech­nique, a donor liver can be tested before being trans­planted. More… »

Prosensa Receives Rare Disease Company Award from EURORDIS

Leiden, The Netherlands – 27 February 2013 – Prosensa, the Dutch bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany focus­ing on RNA-modulating ther­a­peu­tics for rare dis­eases with high unmet need, received the ‘Company Award’ at the EURORDIS Black Pearl Gala Dinner in Brussels last night. More… »