Cambridge, 15th February 2021: The Babraham Research Campus is delighted to welcome the charity Kidney Research UK as the latest organisation to pledge strategic and financial support to its Accelerate@Babraham initiative. The additional funding boosts the ability of the Campus to continue to support and sustain innovation in early science concepts and nurture new life science companies across the Cambridge cluster.
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Fast growing food safety testing firm Curtis Analytics relocates to Discovery Park
Entrepreneurial scientist Dr Tanya Curtis plans further expansion & new business ideas
A technology-driven spin out that looks to transform cell production is the latest business to move into The Biosphere lab facility on Newcastle Helix.
Results from the first major business survey for 2021 by the Chambers of Commerce on Brexit found that half (49%) of exporters are facing difficulties in adapting to the changes in the trade of goods following the ratification of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) on 1 January 2021.
Cambridge, UK, and New York City, USA, 11 February 2021: Artios Pharma Limited (“Artios”), a leading DNA Damage Response (DDR) company developing a broad pipeline of precision medicines for the treatment of cancer, today announced the start of a clinical trial of its small-molecule ATR inhibitor, ART0380, in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors.
Quotient Sciences, the drug development and manufacturing accelerator, announced that it has acquired Arcinova, the U.K.-based multiservice contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO). With over 40 years of experience and 160 employees, Arcinova provides drug substance, drug product and bioanalysis services to over 200 pharma and biotech customers worldwide.
Cambridge, UK, 09 February 2021: Metrion Biosciences Limited (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, today announced the appointment of John Montana, PhD, as a Non-Executive Director. Expansion of the Board of Directors will support the Company’s further growth.
EARLY-STAGE LIFE SCIENCE VENTURES INVITED TO APPLY FOR SPECIALIST SUPPORT AHEAD OF INVESTMENT ROUNDS
“The programme has been specially designed to support MedTech, Diagnostic and Digital Health, including service delivery, ventures to successfully engage investors needed to support their future growth, commercialise scientific discovery and solve global health and environmental challenges. If the last twelve months have taught us anything it is that solutions to many of our current problems are within the hands of the scientific community. Our ultimate aim is to help them make sure those solutions make it out of the lab and into the world”.
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA and Cambridge, UK, 4 February 2021 -- Inivata, a leader in liquid biopsy, today announces it has raised $35 million (£25.7 million) in a second close of a Series C financing round.
Cambridge, United Kingdom – 3 February 2021 - Congenica, the digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform people’s lives, announces a collaboration with Gabriel Precision Oncology Limited (“Gabriel”), a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow.