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Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio

May 5, 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together on ‘life-changing’ gene therapies.

Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’

April 28, 2024
Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boosted by improvements in cell conversion techniques, claim scientists at a leading Swedish institute.

Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’

April 21, 2024
Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of the biggest obstacles to realising and scaling up new discoveries and therapies.

Scottish testing centre prepares for pioneering Alzheimer’s role

April 21, 2024
The University of St Andrews is on course to launch Scotland’s first blood tests for early stage Alzheimer’s, thanks to a collaboration with healthcare giant Roche Diagnostics.

‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention

April 14, 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of heart failure, suggests collaborative work between Finland’s University of Turku and healthcare tech firm CardioSignal.

Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding

April 7, 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at improving funding strategies for impactful research into heart related conditions.

PacBio system to assist Estonia’s national genome scheme

April 1, 2024
Estonia’s University of Tartu has chosen PacBio’s Revio HiFi sequencing system for the next stage of one of the most ambitious national population genome projects.

UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment

March 24, 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre Network and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) have announced a strategic...

Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic

March 24, 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style has won backing from Cancer Research UK and the Physical Sciences Research Council.

Three nation European partnership to advance heart disease treatment

March 24, 2024
The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) and German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have combined forces for a new round of investment to support medical breakthroughs in...

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