Air Products is proud to announce that it has been awarded Medical Device Regulation (MDR) EC Mark certificate for Medical Device liquid nitrogen for the UK.
Do I need MDR liquid nitrogen?
It depends on your application. If it involves the storage of human tissue samples the chances are that you do. This includes any applications that use liquid nitrogen for preserving blood and bone marrow cells, sperm, ova, early embryos, and, in the microbiology laboratory, a variety of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, etc) Another application that requires MDR liquid nitrogen is cryotherapy, which refers…
14 February 2022
CPI and ABHI, with Innovate UK, announce a new £7m funding programme to support UK-basedHealthTech SMEs with navigating regulatory processes
Applications for the funding open on 14th February 2022 and close on 31st May 2022, with submissions reviewed on a weekly basis and awards made on a first-come, first-served basis.
CPI and ABHI are excited to announce the Health Technology Regulatory and Innovation Programme, a joint initiative funded by Innovate UK that supports small- and medium-sized health technology companies to navigate the complex HealthTech regulatory…
Leading pharmaceutical and biotech product development consultancy Boyds has further strengthened its clinical expertise with the appointment of Pharmaceutical Physician, Dr Harriet Gray Stephens to its Clinical and Medical Affairs group.
Harriet joins Boyds from GlaxoSmithKline’s Clinical Research Unit in Cambridge where she was a Clinical Research Physician. After qualifying in Medicine at the University of Oxford, and training in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine in Cambridge and Edinburgh, Harriet switched her focus to train in pharmaceutical medicine and held roles at UK contract…
A decade ago, EY created a metric, the Firepower Index, to understand how life sciences companies were most likely to use M&A to drive portfolio growth. I am pleased to share with you that our 2022 edition is now available. The report was launched on 10 January, during our virtual EY Firepower panels in conjunction with the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.
Nottingham based contract research organisation (CRO) Cellomatics Biosciences has expanded its team with the appointment of senior molecular biologist, Dr Lara De Tomasi, in response to recent growth and the continued increase in demand for its bespoke preclinical and early discovery phase expertise.
A specialist in genetics and molecular biology, Lara joins Cellomatics from the University of Sheffield where she was a Research Associate in the Mirna Mustapha Lab, working on the genetics and molecular heterogeneity of spiral ganglion neurons. Prior to this, Lara spent three years at the…
London, UK, 10 February 2022: PharmaVentures today announced it has moved its operational headquarters from Oxford to London as part of its continued strategic expansion. The company will retain its remaining operational and administrative functions at its new registered office in Oxford. Dr Fintan Walton, Chief Executive and Founder of PharmaVentures said: “As a leading global transaction advisory firm, it makes sense that PharmaVentures moves its functional operations to one of world’s leading financial cities. We wanted a location that reflects PharmaVentures’ forward-thinking culture…
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 10th February 2022 / Sciad Newswire / Domainex Ltd., a leading integrated medicines research services partner, today announces it has opened a facility of over 7,000 sq ft at Unity Campus in Sawston – Cambridge’s newest science and technology park encompassing Iconix Park and The Works, and owned by leading regional property and investment firm Howard Group.
The Domainex facility has fully equipped and operational laboratories and consolidates the Company’s footprint in the Cambridge bioscience cluster. Following two years of very strong growth for the business,…
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…