Cambridge, UK, 22 January: PredictImmune, developers of pioneering prognostic tools for guiding treatment options and improving patient outcomes in immune-mediated diseases, today confirmed its latest patent grant in Canada. The Canadian patent is part of PredictImmune’s first family of intellectual property relating to methods for predicting autoimmune disease risk and follows successful grants in the UK and Europe in October 2018.
The Canadian, UK and European patents are part of an expanding and comprehensive portfolio of patent applications and other intellectual property supporting…
CAMBRIDGE, UK, 14 January 2019 – EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, today announced it has appointed Stephanie Brooking as Head of Product Management. Evonetix aims to utilise its innovative silicon chip approach to deliver a high-throughput solution for the synthesis and assembly of DNA molecules with high fidelity. Stephanie will help to define the Company’s strategy for market entry and longer-term product marketing for its novel gene synthesis products.
Stephanie has over 20 years’…
Aptamer Group today announced it has signed an agreement with AstraZeneca to explore the potential of using aptamer technology to target the kidney. The two-year agreement will give AstraZeneca use of Aptamer Group’s proprietary technology to explore the feasibility of developing the next generation of drug delivery vehicles, called Aptamer Drug Conjugates (ApDCs).
Aptamers are oligonucleotide or peptide molecules that bind to a specific target molecule. They are emerging as promising therapeutic agents. Their ability to fold into distinct secondary or tertiary structures gives them high…
Cambridge and Farnborough, UK, 15 January 2019: Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Peak Analysis and Automation (PAA), a leader in the industry for the design and manufacture of automated laboratory equipment, will collaborate to offer automated micro-plate handling capabilities for single cell analysis. PAA's S-LAB™ plate handler will be integrated with Sphere Fluidics’ Cyto-Mine® Single Cell Analysis System to help increase throughput in antibody discovery and cell line development.
Sphere Fluidics…
Wickham Laboratories are excited to announce their most recent publication on “The Importance of Testing for Pyrogens in Raw and In-Process Materials”, written by Section Head of Endotoxin and Cytotoxicity Testing, Sophie Bell.
The article, published by International Biopharmaceutical Industry (IBI) in their December issue, discusses the effects pyrogens can have on humans and focuses on the three different methods used to test for pyrogens as well as why such testing is compulsory within the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.
An excerpt of this article as follows:
Pyrogens are…
Arecor Limited, the UK-based leading formulation technology company, focussed on developing superior biopharmaceuticals via the innovative reformulation of proteins and peptides enabling the improved treatment of diabetes and other conditions, is pleased to announce its participation at PEPTalk 2019’s Protein Science Week. This leading international conference and one of the largest annual gatherings of over 1,300 protein science researchers in the world, will be held between January 14-18, 2019, at the Hilton Hotel, San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, California, USA.
Arecor’s Chief Scientific…
Cambridge, UK., 4 January 2019: Arecor Ltd (“the Company”), the specialty pharmaceutical companyleveraging its innovative and proprietary formulation technology to develop superior treatments for arange of disease areas, including diabetes, is pleased to announce that the Company has filed a ClinicalTrial Application (“CTA”) to conduct a Phase I study in Type 1 patients of its ultra-rapid acting insulinproduct, AT247. This novel formulation of prandial insulin is designed to deliver an acceleration ofinsulin absorption post injection.
The study will compare the pharmacokinetic and…
Cambridge, UK, January 3rd 2019: Owlstone Medical (or the “Company”), a global diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine, and Cancer Research UK, today announces the clinical launch of the PAN Cancer trial for Early Detection of Cancer in Breath1, with the first patients now being recruited for the 1,500 patient study.
As previously announced on initiation of the collaboration, researchers in the trial are using Owlstone Medical’s2 Breath Biopsy® platform to collect samples, including healthy individuals as trial…
Prof David Klenerman and Prof Andrew Briggs appointed as scientific advisors
CAMBRIDGE, UK, 20 December 2018 – EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, today announces the formation of its scientific advisory board (SAB). Evonetix has appointed Prof David Klenerman FMedSci FRS and Prof Andrew Briggs to advise the Company on key focus areas in synthetic biology and bioethics, to support the development of its novel DNA synthesis platform.
Prof Klenerman is Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the…