(AOF) – OSE Immunotherapeutics announces today that it has received non-dilutive funding of 1.5 million euros from Bpifrance. The “R&D Innovation Loan” program aims to support the development of a companion diagnostic test for lung cancer based on a simple blood sample, in preparation for a cancer vaccine. The diagnostic companion is a unique predictive immunological biomarker test to identify patients with the HLA-A2 genotype who are biologically responsive to Tedopi.
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Loss of speed in European research
European research is losing ground to American and Chinese research. In twenty years, Europe’s share has fallen from 41% to 31% in global R&D. China’s share jumped from 1% to 8%. As for the United States, which supplanted Europe, in 2001 it devoted only 2 billion euros per year more than Europe to R&D, whereas now this gap has reached 25 billion! Some experts accuse the European authorities of not having deployed effective policies. The financing of pharmaceutical research should therefore have been better targeted via the “Horizon 2020” programme. France only comes in eighteenth position in European funding despite the quality of its research. Conversely, the United States concentrates funding on Boston and a few centers of excellence.