I’ve worked from home for 9 years, starting off as Head of R&D for a virtual biotech, then as CEO of Agility Health Tech. For the last few years, I’ve hardly been at home, I was mostly on site with clients, talking at events or meeting with potential new clients. Until two weeks ago…
In one of my early days of working from home, my wife came home from work and I greeted her with, “I saw a bee!”. Now, in my defence, it was December so seeing a bee was a surprise and, therefore, noteworthy. My wife’s response was, “You haven’t spoken to anyone today, have you?”. She was bang on. I hadn’t…
Following on from the success of our first webinar on EU GMP Annex 1 - Implications for Sterile Products Manufacture, RSSL are gearing up for the second installment of their three-part webinar series on manufacturing sterile pharmaceuticals.
The second webinar, to be held 6 May, will be on the topic of Reviewing Sterile Products - Examining the Factors Required for Release and will again be hosted by Dr Tim Sandle.
This webinar is ideal for anyone looking to gain an insight into the critical microbiological quality attributes required for the manufacture of sterile products, while gaining an…
Join a COVID-19 marketing mastermind group to get a fresh perspective and new ideas during these challenging times.
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating unique challenges for life science marketing and comms professionals. To overcome them, we’ll need to work together to share experiences and brainstorm solutions. To help, One Nucleus and long term member, BioStrata, are collaborating to deliver Marketing Masterminds – a free platform created by the BioStrata team for industry peers to share their ideas, insights and support during the coronavirus pandemic.
Find out more and join today: …
AMSBIO report on a world first clinical study of iPSC-derived corneal epithelial cells by Professor Ryuhei Hayashi and co-workers from the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan using StemFit Basic03 clinical grade stem cell culture medium and iMatrix-511 recombinant laminin E8 fragments.In this ground-breaking work, corneal epithelial sheets from HLA-homozygous iPS cells were produced using and transplanted into patients with corneal epithelial stem cell deficiency. The clinical study was approved by the Japanese…
Cambridge, UK, and Budapest, Hungary, 31 March 2020: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”, “the Company” or “the Group”), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, and Pharmahungary Group, a preclinical and clinical R&D company, today announced positive early-stage results for a novel micro-RNA therapeutic for ischemic heart diseases. RNA oligonucleotides, custom-manufactured by Horizon at its Boulder, Colorado site (formerly Dharmacon, Inc.), were used in successful studies that have paved the way for in vivo proof-of-…
With the uncertainties around how the COVID-19 situation will develop all businesses, of course, are considering what they feel to be responsible and proportionate courses of action to take to protect themselves and others. One Nucleus is doing likewise, making these judgments in light of UK Government advice in the interests of staff, members and our wider network. To keep our contacts informed, our current view is as follows:
We continue to follow the official UK Government and Public Health England advice and would request all event or training course attendees to do likewise in addition…
Whilst the disruption to business as usual continues due to the pandemic we are acutely aware that for our members maintaining their profile and network engagement is key.
We want to be sure you are aware of the ways you are still able to engage with One Nucleus. Do make the most of your membership, including via the free or discounted digital options we offer.
Events Online:
We continue to run our events online. Over the past year we have evolved the portfolio to include:
BioWednesday Webinars
Innovation Seminars
Conferences
Open Seminars discussing key trends and themes
‘My Question…
Safety equipment including masks, goggles and any kind of PPE can be donated to all hospitals and trust and better coordinated locally. In Cambridge there is coordination efforts from the University coordinating logistics between donators and NHS procurement at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Contact Jacqui Broker, jb682@medschl.cam.ac.uk.
Further contacts:
Ventilators, to contact ventilators.support@beis.gov.uk
Testing and diagnostics capacity, to contact coviddiagnostics@phe.gov.uk
Innovation and tech, to contact dnhs@nhsx.nhs.uk
All other enquiries or proposals concerning potential…
In these unprecedented times, we at Precision remain resolute in our commitment to supporting the critical work you do. Our goal is to help you continue your cutting edge clinical research without interruption.
Last week, new guidance was for the conduct of clinical trials of medical products in direct response to the COVID 19 pandemic. Unanticipated study challenges include site closures, travel limitation , and supply chain interruptions, all potentially impacting the conduct of clinical trials. This guidance is good news as it provides sponsors
general considerations to assist in assuring…
Cambridge, UK and Dhaka, Bangladesh, 30 March 2020: TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has today announced it has entered into a partnership with ME SOLshare Ltd (‘SOLshare’), a social enterprise that has created a new approach to distributing and trading affordable solar electricity across peer-to-peer micro-grids. By making improvements to the SOLbox trading platform, the collaboration aims to increase the supply of sustainable electrical power to communities in developing countries.
SOLshare manages smart peer-to-peer micro-grid systems in…