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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.

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.

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.

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.

Innovate UK, the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR; i4i programme and AI in Health and Care Award) and the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare have joined forces to offer specialist support to companies within their portfolios, from across the UK, via their Investment Readiness Programme. The programme will support selected companies to gain additional skills and expertise to get them prepared to find and attract investment.

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CAMBRIDGE, UK (18 Jan 2022) – Nuclera, a Cambridge, UK-based biotech company developing cutting-edge benchtop protein printing technologies, announces the opening of its US subsidiary located in Boston, MA.

Saffron Walden, 26th January 2022 / Sciad Newswire / Domainex Ltd., a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to life science organisations globally, is delighted that Professors Daniel Longley, Tim Harrison and colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast have entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement with Ipsen. The agreement provides an exclusive licence to research, develop, manufacture and commercialise FLIP inhibitors. Domainex has supported the FLIP inhibitor programme from its inception.

Life science specialists, AMSBIO, have made a new strategic investment to enhance the level of support to its sizeable and growing base of customers across the European Union.
 
On December 30th, 2021, AMSBIO opened a new office in Alkmaar, Netherlands. The new AMSBIO Europe BV office is already providing EU customers rapid, easy access to the company’s extensive range of top-quality products and consumables.
 

The Babraham Research Campus – one of the UK’s leading locations supporting early-stage bioscience enterprise – has been given the go ahead to expand, to ensure the UK life science research and development sector can continue to deliver world-changing health solutions. 


Through the construction of a sustainable, multi tenanted office and laboratory building, the new development will provide space for new life sciences companies, and for existing companies to grow, enabling the UK to continue to compete in the global life sciences sector. 

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