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Fulbright Award for CMU academic’s ground-breaking organ storage research
Added: 23 Jul 2023
An academic from Cardiff Metropolitan University has received a prestigious Fulbright Award to enab…
Yellow brick road, smart glasses and virtual assistant join semi-finalist of multimillion Longitude dementia tech competition
Added: 11 Jul 2023
An augmented reality ‘yellow brick road’, smart glasses that recognise faces and a virtual speech a…
Multimillion brain trauma investment aims to revolutionise diagnosis and treatment
Added: 3 Jul 2023
The Medical Research Council has announced investment of £9.5 million towards a research platform t…
New UK phage centre unveils weapon in battle against TB deaths
Added: 14 May 2023
This week sees the official opening of the UK Centre for Phage Research, based at the University of…
Lab Innovations reports majority of exhibition space sold for 2023
Added: 14 May 2023
Trade show Lab Innovations says it has sold more than 84% of its exhibition space for this year, de…
Bial Foundation €0.3 million prize seeks winner to follow mRNA pioneers
Added: 28 Apr 2023
Nominations have opened for one of Europe’s biggest health industry awards, Portugal’s €300,000 BIA…
‘Ramp up diagnostic techniques or risk Avian flu spill-over’
Added: 26 Mar 2023
The co-founder of healthtech company Pictura Bio says the UK’s diagnostic testing capacity is not s…
Putin invasion has seen loss of two out of three clinical investigator sites in Ukraine and Russia
Added: 12 Mar 2023
The number of recruiting clinical investigator sites in the countries most impacted by the invasion…
UK biotech investment plunges 60% from previous year's all-time high
Added: 29 Jan 2023
UK biotech investment for 2022 dropped from the previous year’s all-time record, reveals the latest…
Judges announced for £4 million Longitude Prize for AI-assisted dementia technology
Added: 23 Jan 2023
Leading figures from academia, charities and medical institutions are among the judges chosen for t…
UK’s second largest biobank eyes 1 million samples in first year
Added: 15 Jan 2023
BioGrad is set to open the country's second largest biobank facility within a £7.6 million investme…
UK poised to be world-leading lab-grown meat producer, claims patent firm
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The United Kingdom is on course to play a major international role in the development of lab-grown …
Discovery Park unveils scheme to grow job opportunities 100% in a decade
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Discovery Park plans to double the number of jobs it provides to around 7,000 over the next decade.…
Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…
Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…
Start-up raises £0.5 million-plus towards hard tumour immunotherapy goal
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Start-up Neobe Therapeutics has raised £520K towards financing its endeavours to reduce barriers to…
Biotech innovators honoured at OBN 2022
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Rising stars of the biotech world were once again thrown in the spotlight at the annual OBN awards …
Swiss-UK deal eases EU Horizon disappointments
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Britain and Switzerland have sealed an agreement for collaboration on research and innovation proje…
Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious he…
Nikon Small World hands awards first place to photogenic gecko image
Added: 16 Oct 2022
The three millimetre hand of a lizard embryo captured on camera in incredible detail has won first …
