In a recent article in the New Scientist clinical trials supplement Dr Jorg Taubel, Scientific Lead at Richmond Research Institute, highlights the importance of reducing the risk to patients in phase I clinical trials.
As medicines become more personalised it will become necessary to conduct phase I trials directly with the target population. This must be approached with caution and improvements to phase I to trial design must be made before transferring the well-established healthy volunteer tool kit to patients who will often have complicated medical histories.
The drug action must be…
Cambridge, UK, 20th May 2021: Arecor Limited (“Arecor” or “the Company”), the biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, today announces that it has signed a formulation study partnership with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”).
Under this agreement, Arecor will use its proprietary formulation technology platform Arestat™ to develop a differentiated, thermostable formulation of one of Lilly’s proprietary products intended for self-administration. The thermostable formulation would allow greater convenience of use of the product by patients, whilst…
OXFORD and TORONTO, May 17th, 2021 - PrecisionLife Ltd. (“PrecisionLife”), the leading combinatorial analytics company driving understanding of disease biology and patient stratification, and Cyclica Inc. (“Cyclica”), the partner of choice for data-driven drug discovery, announce that they have entered into a strategic partnership to co-market and offer their complementary computational platforms as an integrated drug discovery factory. The companies will initially collaborate on up to 30 pharma and biotechnology drug discovery programs over the next two years.
Together, the two companies…
Cambridge, 19th May 2021
Prof. Claire Thompson, CEO of CDMO, consulting and communications company Agility Life Sciences, wins the inaugural One Nucleus Life Sciences Inspiration of the Year Award.
The One Nucleus Life Sciences Inspiration of the Year Award, sponsored by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), is designed to recognise exceptional individuals who are ambassadors and inspirational leaders in the Life Science sector. Nominations were opened to One Nucleus members to nominate someone who has particularly inspired them during their career journeys to date.
Prof…
Cambridge, UK, 18 May 2021 – Mestag Therapeutics (“Mestag”), a breakthrough inflammatory disease and immuno-oncology company, today announced a target discovery, option and license agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc. (“Janssen”), one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. The agreement, facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, will leverage Mestag’s specialist fibroblast sub-population biology platform and state-of-the-art data analytics to identify novel therapeutic targets.
Under the terms of the agreement, Mestag will interrogate fibroblast…
The latest issue of Sequence looks at key legal and business issues affecting the sector.
Science park investment/ Patents for ground-breaking inventions/ Shaping the EU-UK relationship/ The new life sciences legal framework and much more:
https://update.mills-reeve.com/12/2613/may-2021/life-sciences---sequenc…
Giggabox is set to dramatically scale its Virtual & Hybrid Events offerings to clients as we have secured sizeable investment. This funding has been received from First Enterprise – Enterprise Loans through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). These extra resources will be utilised for the purchase of additional remote digital production equipment and for hiring seven new production and technical employees to help meet the growing demand for live online conferences, product launches, and digital events.
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001 Limited, an independent commercial energy and utility specialists, have recently joined One Nucleus and are excited to start connecting with fellow members from the Life Science industry.
Since 2001, 001 Limited has been using its expertise and experience of the energy market to help businesses across all industries to source sustainable solutions, secure competitive utility contracts and recover savings through conducting historic audits.
At this difficult economic time for businesses across the UK and the growing global climate crisis; 001 Limited is ready to help businesses with their…
COVID-19 swept the globe during 2020 leading to significant morbidity and mortality, impacting all aspects of life, including health and social care provision. This report, published today, demonstrates how people living with rare conditions were disproportionately affected.
In early 2020 a cross-sector group of concerned advocates came together to take Action for Rare Disease Empowerment (ARDEnt). They aimed to shed light on the unseen impact of the pandemic on people living with rare conditions to protect the precious existing services and build on any opportunities uncovered.
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AMSBIO has announced a new range of AAV reference materials of full capsids and empty capsids of 6 different serotypes.Critical to enable meaningful comparisons between research studies and clinical trials, these well-characterized reference standards are extensively quality analyzed with molecular based assays and transmission electron microscope.Gene therapy researchers have long expressed the importance of well characterized AAV reference materials. Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is a widely used gene delivery tool for research and clinical applications. Following…