Cambridge, UK, 7th March 2022 – Microbiotica, a leading player in discovering and developing microbiome-based therapeutics and biomarkers, today announced the completion of a £50 million ($67 million) Series B financing round – the largest microbiome-related financing in Europe to date.
The international investment syndicate was co-led by Flerie Invest, a major Swedish life science investor focussing on companies with ambitious science and the ability to tackle major medical challenges, and Tencent, a global technology company investing in innovations that help improve human life. New…
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3rd March 2022 / Sciad Newswire / Domainex Ltd., a leading integrated medicines research services partner, announces that it has purchased over £1M worth of new Waters equipment to enhance its capabilities in analytical chemistry, bioanalytical sciences and in vitro absorbance, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) assays. The new equipment will allow Domainex to increase its capacity and throughput, supporting its ongoing growth.
Included in the new equipment are two ACQUITY UPLC systems (one with an evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD) and one with…
https://blogs.deloitte.co.uk/health/2022/02/how-genomics-is-transformin…
In September 2021, to mark the first anniversary of the Deloitte Life Sciences Catalyst, we were privileged to attend an insightful hybrid webinar on The Future of Genomics.1 The webinar, chaired by Deloitte partner Mike Standing, was introduced by Frances Cousins who leads the Catalyst, and featured the following esteemed panellists: Professor Dame Sue Hill (Chief Scientific Officer for England), Dr David Bentley (Chief Scientific Officer of Illumina), Dr David Atkins (Chief Executive Officer of Congenica), Dr Julia…
Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) has launched an accelerator programme to give start-ups working on data-enabled drug discovery, genomics and advanced therapies the skills they need to get potential new drugs and therapies to market more quickly.
The programme, which is offered at no cost, runs from May and is aimed at supporting start-up companies working to discover new drugs and therapies. Those selected will take part in an 18-week programme giving them the opportunity to network and learn from experts in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Start-ups will be able to build their…
Cambridge, UK, 01 March 2022: PhoreMost Ltd., the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to ‘Drugging the Undruggable®’ disease targets, today announced the promotion of Dr Neil Torbett to Chief Executive Officer, with immediate effect. Dr Torbett was previously the Company’s Chief Operating Officer. Founder and former CEO, Dr Chris Torrance will become Chair of the Board. Dr Torbett joined PhoreMost as Chief Business Officer in January 2017 and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2020, holding responsibility for all operational, scientific and commercial activities. During…
AMSBIO reports how researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, USA) have used their 10E4 Heparan Sulfate (HS) antibody in pioneering obesity research to quantify the role of HS in the process of intercellular mitochondria transfer to macrophages.
In recent published research**, researchers from the Brestoff and Teitelbaum Labs demonstrated that adipose-tissue resident macrophages acquire mitochondria from adjacent adipocytes using HS. This process occurs in healthy conditions but is impaired in obesity. Further they have shown that genetic disruption of…
Cambridge, UK, 28th February 2022: Chesterford Research Park is delighted to welcome Broken String Biosciences to the Park’s eminent Science Village.
Aiming to develop safer cell and gene therapies by assessing the stability of the genome, Broken String Biosciences is leveraging novel genomic sequencing approaches to build a technology platform that will drive the development of CRISPR cell and gene therapies that are safer by design. Its core technology, INDUCE-seq™, is a DNA break mapping technology that enables companies developing cell and gene therapies to assess the specificity of…
• Funding will support recruitment, commercial partnerships, and further development of Semarion’s SemaCyte cell assaying platform, which turns adherent cells into liquid reagents to enable novel drug screening methodologies
• Investors include Parkwalk Advisors, University of Cambridge Seed Funds, Martlet Capital, and angel investors
Cambridge, UK, 22 February 2022: Semarion Ltd, a University of Cambridge spin-out company from the Cavendish Laboratory combining materials engineering and cell biology to tackle unmet drug screening needs, announced today that it has closed a £2.14 million GBP…
We are excited to announce the launch of our new course, providing the training and examination required to become a IRCA Accredited GMP Pharmaceutical Quality System Lead Auditor.
Following on from the successful PR330 IRCA QMS Pharmaceutical Suppliers ISO9001/PQG Lead Auditor course, RSSL is launching the new GMP Pharmaceutical Quality Systems (GMP/ICHQ10) Lead Auditor Course from Spring 2022!
“Auditing is an in-demand skillset for today’s pharmaceutical professional”, says Kasia Szymaniec, Head of Training at RSSL. “As well as formal training on international auditing standards and…