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Innovate UK is offering small and micro businesses a share of up to £30 million in grants alongside tailored business support delivered by Innovate UK EDGE. You can apply for up to £50,000 for highly innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation through business growth.   Your project must lead to new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others currently available, or propose an innovative use of existing products, processes or services. It can also involve a new or innovative business model.   In your application, you must be able to show…
RevoluGen Wins 2022 BioNewsRound Award for Translational Research First Automated Benchtop Fire Monkey HMW-DNA Extraction Installed at Quadram Institute for Pathogen Sequencing and AMR Monitoring London, UK – 08 July 2022 – UK genomics company, RevoluGen Ltd. (RevoluGen or the Company), is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the winner of the 2022 BioNewsRound Award, for the development and automation of its Fire Monkey High Molecular Weight (HMW) DNA extraction system and successful transfer to its collaborator, Quadram Institute Biosciences (Quadram). The Award, organised by…
Are you in need a drug delivery system to bring your candidate molecules inside the cell? Are you tired of long and tedious collaborations? Can you imagine being able to arrive at the clinic with your candidate molecule? DIVERSA helps you with your drug delivery challenges. DIVERSA is a spin-off of the Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) and the Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS) established in January 2022. DIVERSA is the exclusive licensee of a new drug delivery technology based on lipid nanoemulsions for small drugs and macromolecules (peptides, proteins, and…
• Further plans for Stevenage campus expansion shared • Developer partners announced as Reef Group and UBS Asset Management • GSK to gift land to SBC to enable expansion STEVENAGE 4th July: Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) is based on the life science campus in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Details of plans to expand the campus were shared today. The new campus, which will be one of the largest of its kind in the UK and Europe, will be built alongside SBC and its 40+ occupier companies, the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and GSK’s existing Global R&D centre. UBS Asset Management and Reef…
05 July 2022 Cambridge, UK, Tokyo, Japan, 05 July 2022: Mogrify Limited (CEO: Darrin M. Disley, Ph.D., “Mogrify®”), a biopharmaceutical company transforming the lives of patients through a novel class of in vivo reprogramming therapies, and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”), a leader in regenerative medicine, today announced that they have executed a collaborative research agreement on in vivo regenerative medicine approaches to address sensorineural hearing loss. Utilizing Mogrify’s proprietary direct cellular reprogramming platform, the…
Cambridge, UK, 4 July 2022: Arecor Therapeutics plc (AIM: AREC), a globally focused biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, today announces that its abstract titled “Phase I study investigating PK and PD of highly-concentrated insulin aspart AT278 U500” has been selected for presentation as part of the Short Oral Discussion Session A at the 58th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) meeting, which will be held from 19-23 September 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden and online. The presentation will take place on Tuesday 20…
Jun 28, 2022 Investment from LifeArc, Illumina, and Illumina Ventures will fund genomics startups for Illumina Accelerator Cambridge graduates SAN DIEGO, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, today announced its participation in Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million genomics venture fund dedicated to providing match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator Cambridge with the aim to advance breakthroughs in human health. Illumina Accelerator, located in both San Francisco and…
Cambridge: 24 June 2022 One Nucleus is pleased to announce an exciting collaboration with My Green Lab to support its member organisations in becoming more sustainable. We will be sign-posting the ‘My Green Lab Certification’ complimentary program and providing a discount, exclusive to One Nucleus Members, for the Accredited Professional training courses. The purpose of this collaboration is to help drive a meaningful and sustainable change within laboratories. Training is currently available for Waste, Procurement and Green Chemistry and, later in the year, Water, Energy and Engagement…
Cambridge’s new urban innovation district welcomes Royal party and guests to celebrate its existing innovative community and mark the next stage of campus development  Cambridge, 28th June 2022: HRH The Duke of Gloucester visited the new Unity Campus development in Cambridge on Friday 24th June. Welcomed by Nicholas Bewes, CEO, Howard Group, the developer of the site, The Duke and dignitaries, including HM Lord Lieutenant, Mrs Julie Spence OBE and The High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, Jennifer Crompton began with a tour of The Works building. Completed in February 2020, The…
The development will provide much needed accommodation to the burgeoning life science community within the Cambridge Cluster Cambridge, UK, 23rd June 2022:  Chesterford Research Park has submitted plans to create a new three-storey building on a plot to the east of the Park to meet the high demand for life science space in the Cambridge Cluster. Subject to planning, the approximately 60,000 sq ft multi-occupier building will be fitted with a mix of laboratory and office space and will be ready for occupation in the summer of 2024. Named the Sidney Sussex Building…