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Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’
Added: 21 Apr 2024
Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of…
Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced
Added: 7 Apr 2024
A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…
Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic
Added: 24 Mar 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…
Fox Foundation and bit.bio announce first Parkinson’s project
Added: 10 Mar 2024
The Michael J Fox Foundation and Cambridge synthetic biology company bit.bio have announced their f…
Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration
Added: 25 Feb 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…
Aston-Warwick initiative wins key UKRI funds
Added: 11 Feb 2024
A joint team from Aston and Warwick universities and the University of Warwick have won nearly £2 m…
Anglo-Norwegian study casts light on treatment resistant bacteria
Added: 4 Feb 2024
A study comparing the UK and Norway over two decades, has concluded that antibiotic use may drive a…
Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours
Added: 10 Dec 2023
Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…
Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…
Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…
Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients
Added: 16 Oct 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …
Innovate UK grants £1.6 million to boost oligonucleotide therapeutics manufacture with machine learning
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Cambridge-based software company Intellegens has secured a £1.6 million grant from Innovate UK, par…
BDD wins £2 million investment to expand early phase clinical trials
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Clinical trials company BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2 million to aid expansi…
Siemens supports Indivior to set new standards with automated plant in Hull
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Siemens is supporting global manufacturer of addiction and mental health treatment medicines Indivi…
Scottish researchers seek to turn plastic waste into pharmaceuticals
Added: 30 Jul 2023
A new project led by Scottish researchers is aiming to revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry by…
Depression now in Top Five most studied diseases in clinical development
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Phesi’s mid-year global analysis of all clinical trials conducted to date in 2023 confirms a shift …
Pines and paper alleviate science's sustainable pain killer headache
Added: 9 Jul 2023
Bath University's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability has revealed a sustainab…
Wong appointed to Aston’s unique Regius pharmacy professorship
Added: 3 Jul 2023
The pharmacoepidemiologist Professor Ian Wong has been appointed as the new Regius Professor of Pha…
Mass spectrometry offers means to assess protein ‘glues’
Added: 18 Jun 2023
Mass spectrometry can provide medical research with the means to harness protein interactions for r…
Online surveys key to safety data for novel vaccines concludes report
Added: 29 May 2023
Online surveys provide an efficient means to gather drug safety data on novel vaccines rolled out a…
