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Andrew Lloyd ALA
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International PR group | Market communications for life sciences & tech 🚀 | 35+ years in #biotech #medtech 💉 #electronics #photonics 🛰️ #startups #VC
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[ALA Client News] Adaptam Therapeutics raises €3 million to pioneer cancer immunotherapies against immunosuppressive myeloid cells

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#oncology #biotech
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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[ALA Client News] Naobios and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science partner to develop new live-attenuated vaccine against mpox

Partnership aims to commercialize new mpox vaccine - with higher level of safety - by 2027

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#vaccine #mpox
October 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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[ALA Client News] Meteor Biotech launches in Europe with first deployment of spatial biology platform, CosmoSort, at VIB in Belgium

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#SpatialBiology #Cancer #DrugDevelopment
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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[ALA Client News] Exeliom Biosciences secures €2.85M extension to Series A funding, bringing total round to nearly €12M

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#fundraising #immunomodulation #inflammatorydisease #oncology
October 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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[ALA Client News] SOM Biotech secures clear registrational path for SOM3355 in Huntington’s disease after @fda.gov End of Phase 2 Meeting

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#huntingtonsdisease #neurology
October 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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[ALA client news] Avec le soutien de ses actionnaires historiques Téthys Invest, CVC et La Caisse (ex-CDPQ), Sebia annonce l’entrée en négociations exclusives en vue d’accueillir Warburg Pincus à son capital

#diagnostic #oncologie ala.associates/corporate/se...
Avec le soutien de ses actionnaires historiques – Téthys Invest, CVC et La Caisse (précédemment CDPQ) – Sebia est heureux d’annoncer l’entrée en négociations exclusives en vue d’accueillir Warburg Pin...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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[ALA client news] Ciliatech opens US subsidiary and plans clinical trials in #glaucoma

Initiative follows recent CE mark of Ciliatech’s flagship eye implant, a novel treatment for patients with mild to moderate glaucoma

#glaucoma #USsubsidiary #clinicalresearch

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Ciliatech opens US subsidiary and plans clinical trials in glaucoma | Andrew Lloyd & Associates
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October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🔬 From flexible implants to circuits seeded with living cells, a new kind of electronics is starting to produce long-lasting implants with the potential to help everything from paralysis to hearing and vision loss - @newscientist.com

www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

#technology #medtech
The futuristic new tech that could bridge broken nerves and mend minds
From flexible implants to circuits seeded with living cells, a new kind of electronics is starting to produce long-lasting implants with the potential to help everything from paralysis to hearing and ...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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At ALA, we’re proud to partner with Ciloa, a biotech pioneer engineering small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) for therapeutic and preventive use 🧬

We helped raise awareness of its €6.5M funding for advancement of its therapeutic option for metabolic diseases, such as #diabetes and #obesity💡
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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[ALA Client News] SeaBeLife secures €2 million

☑️ This funding will help fast-track the launch of clinical trials in dry AMD and severe acute hepatitis programs, with first clinical trial set to start in 2026

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#ophthalmology #funding #biotech
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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[ALA Client News] RDS raises €14 million to industrialize MultiSense®,
a connected patch for remote patient monitoring

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#medtech #funding #wearables
September 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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[ALA Client News] Sonomind secures €3 million to advance its novel neuromodulation ultrasound device and opens a new therapeutic pathway in psychiatry and neurology

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#neurology #funding #neuromodulation #depression
September 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🖨️ #3DPrinting: Electronic devices that dissolve in water could make it easier to create and recycle technology prototypes – and they could even inspire more sustainable commercial devices - @jeremyhsu.bsky.social for @newscientist.com

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#sustainability
3D-printed electronics can dissolve in water for quick recycling
Electronic devices that dissolve in water could make it easier to create and recycle technology prototypes – and they could even inspire more sustainable commercial devices
www.newscientist.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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[ALA Client News] Genoskin Raises $8.7M Series A to Advance Ethical, Human Based Models That Deliver Reliable Insights for Safer, More Predictive Drug Development

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#drugdevelopment #immunotoxicology #funding
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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[ALA Client News] SOM Biotech receives positive EMA COMP opinion on European Orphan Drug Designation for SOM3355 for treatment of Huntington’s Disease

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#huntingtonsdisease #neurology
September 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Celebrating our clients' media successes🌟

Here are some of our recent highlights:

1️⃣ PLL Therapeutics in Drug Discovery World. PLL' CEO Jean-Pascal Zambaux presented the company's strategic approach for early detection and treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at Bioshares Biotech Summit
September 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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[ALA Client News] Naobios, Nuvonis and European Vaccine Initiative collaborate on manufacturing influenza challenge agent

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#biotech #vaccines
September 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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[ALA Client News] BioWin Days 2025
: Belgian health innovators set to meet on September 23 and 24

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#biotech #healthtech
August 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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[ALA Client News] Ciliatech obtains CE mark for eye implant Intercil® Uveal Spacer, novel treatment for patients with glaucoma

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#Ophthalmology #Glaucoma #CEmark #ESCRS #MedTech
August 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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[ALA Client News] Meteor Biotech installs spatial biology platform, CosmoSort, at Magnify, CNSI incubator on UCLA campus

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#SpatialCellSorting #DrugDevelopment #Oncology #Immunology #Neurology
August 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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[ALA Client News] Roca Therapeutics secures first-ever @ema.europa.eu recognition of Radiation Maculopathy as distinct indication - and Orphan Drug Designation

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#Oncology #ClinicalTrials #Opthalmology #Radiotherapy
August 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Researchers have developed antibiotics that can potentially kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA with the help of artificial intelligence - @the-independent.com

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#antibiotics #antimicrobialresistance #AI
Scientists use AI to create antibiotics for deadly gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health crisis and is estimated to be responsible for more than one million deaths globally each year
www.independent.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Scientists say this could be the start of a "new generation" of tech, capable of hacking the gut microbiome

www.sciencefocus.com/news/gut-mic...

#microbiome #guthealth #healthtech
New smart pill could let doctors explore and treat your gut from the inside | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Scientists have found a way to control gut bacteria from a smartphone
www.sciencefocus.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Scientists have found the first robust evidence that genes affect chances of #ME/CFS, a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been neglected and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community - @iansample.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

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Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
Large study suggests people’s genetics could ‘tip the balance’ on whether they would develop the illness
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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[ALA Client News] PLL Therapeutics presents strategic approach for early detection and treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at Bioshares Biotech Summit 🧬

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#ALS #diagnostics #neurodegenerative
August 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM