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The Hotung Molecular Immunology group at St George’s, University of London has partnered with Leaf Expression Systems, a contract development and manufacturing organisation, specialising in plant-based expression and production of proteins, to explore the feasibility of producing anti-HIV monoclonal antibodies at large scale.

Funds will be used to advance pre-clinical and manufacturing development programmes and prepare for clinical studies.


Leeds, UK, 13 May 2021: LUNAC Therapeutics (LUNAC), a UK-based drug discovery company focused on the development of advanced life-saving anticoagulants, announces it has raised £4.75 million in an additional financing round.

In a recent article in the New Scientist clinical trials supplement Dr Jorg Taubel, Scientific Lead at Richmond Research Institute, highlights the importance of reducing the risk to patients in phase I clinical trials.


As medicines become more personalised it will become necessary to conduct phase I trials directly with the target population. This must be approached with caution and improvements to phase I to trial design must be made before transferring the well-established healthy volunteer tool kit to patients who will often have complicated medical histories.

Cambridge, UK, 20th May 2021: Arecor Limited (“Arecor” or “the Company”), the biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, today announces that it has signed a formulation study partnership with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”).

OXFORD and TORONTO, May 17th, 2021 - PrecisionLife Ltd. (“PrecisionLife”), the leading combinatorial analytics company driving understanding of disease biology and patient stratification, and Cyclica Inc. (“Cyclica”), the partner of choice for data-driven drug discovery, announce that they have entered into a strategic partnership to co-market and offer their complementary computational platforms as an integrated drug discovery factory.

Cambridge, UK, 18 May 2021 – Mestag Therapeutics (“Mestag”), a breakthrough inflammatory disease and immuno-oncology company, today announced a target discovery, option and license agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc.

The latest issue of Sequence looks at key legal and business issues affecting the sector.


Science park investment/ Patents for ground-breaking inventions/ Shaping the EU-UK relationship/ The new life sciences legal framework and much more:


https://update.mills-reeve.com/12/2613/may-2021/life-sciences---sequence...


Giggabox is set to dramatically scale its Virtual & Hybrid Events offerings to clients as we have secured sizeable investment. This funding has been received from First Enterprise – Enterprise Loans through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). These extra resources will be utilised for the purchase of additional remote digital production equipment and for hiring seven new production and technical employees to help meet the growing demand for live online conferences, product launches, and digital events.

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