While One Nucleus CEO Tony Jones attended the Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science 2019 at Medicon Village last week, Marks & Clerk had Norway covered by co-hosting and co-sponsoring the UT Conference in London. Simon Portman of Marks & Clerk Law gave a contracts training seminar for Norwegian tech companies and Matt Pinney of Marks & Clerk brought them up to speed on the patentability of AI.
LabKey, a US-based custom informatics solution provider, offering a freely-accessible, enterprise-quality, open source software platform to help research organisations solve their research data challenges.
In February 2016, LabKey opened its UK office, appointing Dr Jason Leadley, as its Director of European Operations. Relying heavily on engagements driven by the download and use of its open source, Community Edition of its core software platform, LabKey Server.
LabKey's most significant UK engagement is with Genomics England, on the pioneering 100,000 Genomes Project, where it is…
Kadans enters the UK life science market by acquiring from Imperial College ThinkSpace the B900 building located on the Babraham Research Campus (“BRC”) in Cambridge, adding to its Pan-European science park portfolio. The fully let property accommodates two companies (Abzena and Bicycle Therapeutics) active in the field of cancer and immunology therapeutics, forming a welcome addition to Kadans existing science partner network including tenants such as Genmab, Merus and MDxHealth.
The recently developed, high quality bio- and chemistry laboratory facility as well as BRC as a location is a…
Cambridge, UK; April 8, 2019: Kymab, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing antibody-based therapeutics, today announced the appointment of Simon Sturge as its new CEO, effective May 1, 2019. Simon succeeds David Chiswell, who remains a scientific adviser to the Company.
“We are delighted that such an experienced leader as Simon will lead Kymab to its next stage of growth,” said Martin Nicklasson, Non-Executive Chair. “Led by Simon, Kymab will continue to progress its innovative portfolio of products through the clinic and to market, driving our strategy to…
Cambridge, UK, 08 April 2019: Metrion Biosciences (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, today announced the appointment of Dr Andrew Southan as Chief Executive Officer, with immediate effect. Dr Southan was previously the Company’s Chief Operating Officer.
Dr Southan joined Metrion as Head of Commercial Operations in October 2016, was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in April 2017, and joined the board as a director in March 2018. During this period the Company has made significant progress, developing innovative, high-quality assays…
Cambridge, UK, 03 April 2019: TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has announced today the formation of Cellular Highways Ltd. The new spin-out has been founded to commercialise TTP’s proprietary Vortex-Actuated Cell Sorting (VACS) technology, and fast-track development of a first commercial product, Highway 1™. TTP has invested £1.7m ($2.2m) in the spin-out, in addition to over £2m development funding to date. Highway 1 will be unveiled at CYTO, the 34th Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, in Vancouver, 22-26 June…
Building on the success of 2018, LabKey will be holding two User Events in Europe in June 2019.
4th and 5th June: Basel Switzerland
6th June: London
The user events are designed to provide a fun and relaxed forum to learn more about what LabKey is and how we help over 500 research institutions around the world to eliminate and address their research data management challenges.
LabKey is a freely accessible, enterprise-quality, open source platform designed to manage, integrate, analyse and share research data for the global life sciences industry. With over 16 years of development and…
Lonza is to set up a virtual tenancy at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC). Through this collaboration, Lonza’s scientific experts will establish a regular presence at SBC working with the Business Development team, joining a vibrant community for biotech growth and development.
Sarah Holland, Global Head of Licensing at Lonza commented: “Supporting innovation is a key focus for Lonza. Working closely with SBC gives us the opportunity to build strong relationships with other residents at the BioCatalyst. Interacting with other companies in this highly networked and innovative environment, in…
No, not an April Fools’ joke - BioBridge Ltd, the Cambridge-based independent life science innovation consultancy, was founded in 1989 and has been at the forefront of biotechnology and life science advances since then, from a ground-breaking report for Frost&Sullivan on biotechnology in animal breeding and production, via helping establish new approaches to xenogeneic therapies and biopharming, to current involvement in the latest green and blue biotechnology advances.
Dr Meredith Lloyd-Evans, founder and CEO of BioBridge Ltd, said “Since we started, we have worked with over 100 clients…