Biotalys' CEO Kevin Helash recently gave a lengthy interview to AgFunder on the potential of biologicals and the need for an appropriate regulatory framework. Many thanks to journalist Elaine Watson for the great read! Read the interview here: https://lnkd.in/gzh7MmDd
Biotalys
Biotechnology Research
Ghent, Flemish Region 9,600 followers
Transforming crop protection
About us
We are a rapidly growing and transformative crop protection company developing a new generation of protein-based biocontrol solutions, shaping the future of sustainable and safe food supply. Based on our ground-breaking technology platform, Biotalys is developing a broad pipeline of effective and safe products with novel modes of action, addressing key crop pests and diseases across the whole value chain, from soil to plate. Biotalys’ unique protein-based biocontrols aim to combine the high-performance characteristics of chemicals with the clean safety profile of biologicals, making them ideal crop protection agents for both pre- and post-harvest applications. We are on track to launch our first biofungicide EVOCA in the USA and Europe, pending regulatory approval. Biotalys was founded in 2013 as a spin-off from the VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and is listed on Euronext Brussels. The company is based in the biotech cluster in Ghent, Belgium. More information can be found on www.biotalys.com.
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External link for Biotalys
- Industry
- Biotechnology Research
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Ghent, Flemish Region
- Type
- Public Company
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Crop Protection, biotech, and proteins
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Buchtenstraat
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Ghent, Flemish Region 9051, BE
Employees at Biotalys
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Toon Musschoot
Head Investor Relations and Communications at Biotalys NV | Member of the Senior Leadership Team | Board Member at flanders.bio
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Carlo Boutton
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Kamal El Mernissi
Commercial Executive | Championing Innovation & Driving Growth | AgTech | Berkeley MBA | Fulbright Alumni | Customer-first mindset
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Dominique Vlieghe
Data and Information Manager at Biotalys NV
Updates
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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming an #investor club from Vlaams-Brabant at our premises in Ghent. We presented our company, technology and product pipeline and showed them around the lab. These retail investors have Biotalys in their investment #portfolio and we're happy to see they are closely following up our activities. Great to have these folks from Brabantse Business Club on site and many thanks to the colleagues supporting the event! #investorrelations #protein-based #biocontrols
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Biotalys reposted this
🌻Meet this year's winners of the Bernard Blum Award! 👏Our warmest congratulations to: 🥇Certis Belchim/Certis Biologicals for Toltek, a solution that combats Take-all, one of Europe’s most devastating cereal diseases. 🥈Cearitis for their push & pull combination, REMO, PIRA, SAMO, a method that effectively targets fruit flies. 🥉Biotalys for their protein-based solution designed to protect crops from potentially catastrophic fungal diseases. 🏅Product assisting uptake: Crop Capsule company for Cotton Cap which targets Silverleaf Whitefly in broad acre rain grown and irrigated cotton production systems.
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Biotalys' first biofungicide, #EVOCA™, has just won bronze at the 2024 Bernard Blum #Awards granted at the annual biocontrol industry meeting in Basel, Switzerland! EVOCA is a novel #protein-based biofungicide that helps control fungal disease in fruits and vegetables. Demonstrating strong performance in trials across multiple regions, climates, soil types, production types, pathogen pressure and crops to date, EVOCA is currently under review for regulatory approval in both the US and EU. EVOCA will pave the way for EVOCA NG, which is expected to be Biotalys’ first commercial fungicide from its #AGROBODY™ technology platform. EVOCA and EVOCA NG have the same active ingredient which is also protected by the patent grants in Europe and the U.S. Biotalys is developing a series of protein-based biocontrols based on its AGROBODY™ technology platform. By applying a discovery method based on defined molecular targets, Biotalys’ scientists are focusing on developing products with multiple modes of action. Thank you IBMA - International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association and congratulations to the whole Biotalys team 👏
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Biotalys is pleased to announce the appointment of Kamal El Mernissi as Chief Business Development Officer (#CBDO), effective today. Simon Moroney, Chairman of Biotalys said: “I'm delighted to welcome Kamal to the Executive Committee. With more than 15 years of experience in #agriculture and a broad variety of leadership positions in marketing and sales, he is an excellent addition to the #leadership team. The board looks forward to working with Kamal as he builds the company’s roster of partnerships, with a focus on maximizing long-term value for Biotalys and its stakeholders.” “I had the pleasure of working with Kamal as part of my team at Marrone Bio Innovations and am delighted to welcome him to the executive leadership at Biotalys,” said Kevin Helash, CEO of Biotalys. “As #partnerships become increasingly important for us to bring our growing pipeline of novel and effective biocontrols to market, Kamal’s expertise in fostering strong business relationships will be invaluable in the next phase of Biotalys’ growth.” Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/g8zrwVJ
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This #WorldFoodDay, we celebrate everyone’s right to nutritious, safe and sustainable food for a better life and a better future.
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Our CFO Douglas Minder spoke with economic tv-channel Trends Kanaal Z on our new capital raise: https://lnkd.in/e9MQtxFU (as of 8:30)
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We are happy to announce a #capital raise of EUR 15 million through new and current investors. ✨ Kevin Helash, Biotalys’ CEO, said: "We are proud to welcome a.s.r. vermogensbeheer as a new investor to our company and are very appreciative of the additional support of our current shareholders, Ackermans & van Haaren and Agri Investment Fund. We are committed to being good stewards of this investment, maintaining our culture of cost consciousness. We will strategically deploy these funds to advance our R&D pipeline with a target of launching one new project annually, such as the recently announced addition of BioFun-8 for expanded fungal control. The timing of this investment extends our cash runway as we await final regulatory approvals for EVOCA and move toward commercializing EVOCA NG and generating a strong and increasing revenue stream long-term.” Read the full press release, including quotes from Ko van Nieuwenhuijzen (ASR), Piet Bevernage (AvH), Patrik Haesen (AIF), here: https://lnkd.in/g8zrwVJ
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Proteins are in the spotlights! Great to see that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to three scientists active in #protein research. 👏 Biotalys uses proteins as active ingredients of its biocontrol solutions for agriculture. In addition, to predict the precise 3D shapes of proteins, our company recently embarked on a project with #AlphaFold2. The inventors of this AI-model have now been granted the Nobel Prize.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential. The diversity of life testifies to proteins’ amazing capacity as chemical tools. They control and drive all the chemical reactions that together are the basis of life. Proteins also function as hormones, signal substances, antibodies and the building blocks of different tissues. Proteins generally consist of 20 different amino acids, which can be described as life’s building blocks. In 2003, David Baker succeeded in using these blocks to design a new protein that was unlike any other protein. Since then, his research group has produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors. The second discovery concerns the prediction of protein structures. In proteins, amino acids are linked together in long strings that fold up to make a three-dimensional structure, which is decisive for the protein’s function. Since the 1970s, researchers had tried to predict protein structures from amino acid sequences, but this was notoriously difficult. However, four years ago, there was a stunning breakthrough. In 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Life could not exist without proteins. That we can now predict protein structures and design our own proteins confers the greatest benefit to humankind. Learn more Press release: https://bit.ly/3TM8oVs Popular information: https://bit.ly/3XYHZGp Advanced information: https://bit.ly/4ewMBta
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Biotalys' CEO Kevin Helash spoke with biotech journalist Gail Dutton on the value of the company's technology for farmers. The article nicely explains how the science works and what it can contribute to agriculture. Read the in-depth article here: https://lnkd.in/ewUCytYB geneng news #AGROBODY™ technology
Agrobodies Emulate Antibodies to Protect Crops
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