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Innovate UK grants £1.6 million to boost oligonucleotide therapeutics manufacture with machine learning
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Cambridge-based software company Intellegens has secured a £1.6 million grant from Innovate UK, par…
BDD wins £2 million investment to expand early phase clinical trials
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Clinical trials company BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2 million to aid expansi…
Siemens supports Indivior to set new standards with automated plant in Hull
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Siemens is supporting global manufacturer of addiction and mental health treatment medicines Indivi…
Depression now in Top Five most studied diseases in clinical development
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Phesi’s mid-year global analysis of all clinical trials conducted to date in 2023 confirms a shift …
Wong appointed to Aston’s unique Regius pharmacy professorship
Added: 3 Jul 2023
The pharmacoepidemiologist Professor Ian Wong has been appointed as the new Regius Professor of Pha…
Online surveys key to safety data for novel vaccines concludes report
Added: 29 May 2023
Online surveys provide an efficient means to gather drug safety data on novel vaccines rolled out a…
Northern Ireland deal appears to boost UK’s Horizon Europe hopes
Added: 1 Mar 2023
Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s achievement of an agreed new Northern Ireland protocol with his Europe…
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…
Treatments remain effective for Mpox says study
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Joint research by British and German institutions suggest that current drugs used to combat the glo…
Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…
Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …
BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure
Added: 29 Jul 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure f…
Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’
Added: 29 Jul 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its pre…
Pistoia Alliance announces first female president
Added: 25 Jun 2022
Pistoia Alliance, the global body which promotes non-competitive R&D collaboration among leading li…
Incorporating valuable microbiome data into drug development pipeline
Added: 16 Feb 2022
A three-phase project will build a ‘Microbiome Atlas’ to power an algorithm for predicting the micr…
World's first confocal light microscope to study chiral molecules
Added: 11 Feb 2022
Scientists from Durham University’s Chemistry Department have developed the world’s first laser sca…
BIA response to conclusion of NICE methods and processes review
Added: 31 Jan 2022
BioIndustry Association expert expresses disappointment in the scope of the conclusions draw by NIC…
2022 predictions on the advances in life sciences innovation
Added: 9 Dec 2021
Innovation experts recently hired specifically to study emerging tech and drive collaboration predi…
New microscope uses photonics to gain insights into ‘superbugs’
Added: 25 Nov 2021
Scientists are building a new super-resolution microscope that uses laser light to study the inner …
