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TWO businesses based in The Biosphere on Newcastle Helix have been awarded funding to accelerate their innovations to support the global fight against the COVID-19.


Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency has awarded ExplantLab and Atelerix almost £50,000 each to fast track their ideas and research. Both are based in The Biosphere and were among only 800 applicants chosen to receive a share of £40million government investment out of a record 8,600 applications from across the UK.

Cambridge, UK, 2nd June 2020 / Following the retirement of Tony Brampton, Eddy Littler has been appointed as non-executive Chairman of Domainex Ltd.

Biocair, a global specialist in life sciences logistics, was selected to transport time-critical plasmids from the USA to the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Durban, South Africa.


AHRI Faculty Member and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Dr Alex Sigal, highlighted the importance of the materials being transported and the standard of service provided by Biocair:

Dual-qualified solicitor and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney, Chris Hoole, last month relocated to the Cambridge office of leading intellectual property firm Appleyard Lees.


Chris is looking forward to supporting existing and new clients in Cambridge, the UK and beyond, from his new home base.


Chris will continue his work to help build the national litigation and trade mark practices of Appleyard Lees, as the firm positions itself for further growth in years to come.

Laupheim, Germany; Milford, MA, USA and Cambridge, UK, 19 May 2020: Rentschler Biopharma SE, a world-class contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals, and Horizon Discovery, a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, today announced the signing of a commercial license agreement.

We are excited to announce the launch of our new webinar series called BIODATAlks, taking the format of 30-45 minute interactive conversations, and hosted by the BioData Innovation Centre team at the Wellcome Genome Campus.

AMSBIO reports on the positive customer feedback received for their One-Step Luciferase Assay kit recently introduced for quantitation of firefly luciferase activity in mammalian cell culture.

In recent months, the world has faced its most significant peace-time crisis, effecting all corners of the globe. Like many others, we at PIR International have adopted new working practices to adapt and to continue to support our clients and candidates, who are developing lifesaving treatments and technologies for all diseases.

Westbury, NY – May 11, 2020 – BioIVT, a leading provider of research models and services for drug and diagnostic development, today announced that it is adding high-purity Kupffer cells to its portfolio of human primary hepatic cells to support liver disease drug discovery and development and help predict adverse drug reactions.

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