The UK Government’s recently released “Levelling up White Paper” makes for interesting reading in the context of the life sciences sector.
In advance of a more in-depth review, here are some of the key points and my thoughts, focusing on two of the main areas of relevance to the sector: small company finance and R&D expenditure.
The White Paper does a good job of setting out the challenges. For example, it identifies that 86% of equity investment in the UK goes to companies in London, the South East and East of England. Data shown in the forthcoming UK Life Science Start-up Report states…
Cambridge UK: 07 February 2022
Bidwells LLP, widely recognized as a pioneer and the leading science & technology property adviser in the UK has become the latest Partner to join One Nucleus. The One Nucleus Partner Programme is tailor-made to meet the needs of the Partner and One Nucleus members.
Max Bryan, Head of Science & Technology commented “Bidwells is committed to ensuring the rapidly growing science and technology sector in the Oxford – Cambridge Arc is fully catered for when it comes to its R&D and office requirements. We are already advising on 31 science parks and…
London & Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3rd February 2022 / Sciad Newswire / Parkinson’s UK, the largest charitable funder of Parkinson’s research in Europe, and Domainex Ltd., today announce a collaboration focused on developing small molecule therapies targeting neuroinflammation that could slow the progression of Parkinson’s. Domainex, a leading integrated medicines research services partner, will provide fully integrated drug discovery services including assay biology, medicinal and computational chemistry. The collaboration is anticipated to be undertaken over a two-and-a-half-year…
CAMBRIDGE, UK (02 Feb 2022) – Nuclera, a biotech company developing cutting-edge benchtop protein printing technologies, today announced that the first close of its Series B financing has raised $42.5 million. The funds raised will be used to accelerate the development and commercialization of its eProtein™ desktop bioprinter.
Nuclera’s ground-breaking protein printing technology has attracted many new and existing institutional and strategic investors in this financing round including M&G, Amadeus Capital Partners, E Ink, RT Partners, Future Planet Capital, British Business Bank Future…
Cambridge, UK, February 1, 2022 — Biofidelity, a pioneer in precision cancer diagnostics, has successfully completed a heavily oversubscribed $23 million Series A+ investment round, led by Octopus Ventures and backed by SBI Investment Co. Ltd. and existing investors. The investment will fund the upcoming launch of ASPYRE-Lung, the company’s first commercial diagnostic assay based on its breakthrough molecular technology.
ASPYRE is a completely new category of molecular diagnostic technology that simplifies and accelerates the detection of genomic biomarkers. The technology has been developed…
OXFORD, UK January 31, 2022 –PrecisionLife Limited, the global techbio company driving precision medicine in chronic disease with AI-led drug discovery, clinical development, and healthcare solutions, announces the first close of its Series A investment round. The financing, which is ongoing, will enable expansion and progression of its extensive and growing pipeline of commercial opportunities targeting complex chronic diseases. The company anticipates the second close of the Series A investment round in the coming months.
The investment will be used to expand the application of…
Edinburgh and Cambridge, UK, 24 January 2022 - Macomics Ltd, an immuno-oncology company with world-leading expertise in macrophage biology, announces today that it has added five new internationally renowned Advisors to expand the immunology, oncology and clinical expertise within its advisory panel. The new additions from the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, the UK and Italy are Professor Karin de Visser, Dr Carlos Gomez-Roca, Professor Daniel Speiser, Professor Klaus Okkenhaug and Dr Mario Leonardo Squadrito.
They join Prof. Michele De Palma and Dr Jackie Doody world recognised experts in…
The Board of PIR International, a leading provider of executive search and interim services to the global life science industry, today announced the finalisation of an MBO with the executive team of the business, Sally Hope, Stuart Penney, and Tom Bradley, who will acquire the majority of shares from the founder, Carolyn Douthwaite.
Carolyn founded the business in 2006, initially focused on the provision of senior interims to major life science companies. Since then, the range of services has evolved, in line with client demand, and particularly the growth of the services to early stage,…
This cell culture supplement can be used to manufacture both autologous and allogeneic cell therapies
BioIVT, a leading provider of research models and services for drug and diagnostic development, today announced the launch of its Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) grade human AB serum, a cell culture supplement to enhance the development and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.
“While there have been advancements in the field of serum-free media for cell and gene therapies, human AB serum has long been the ‘gold standard’ for rapid cell expansion. As the collection and production…