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News and Trends 31 Jan 2025

U.K. biotech defies the odds, raising £3.5B in 2024

The U.K. biotech sector raised £3.5 billion in equity financing last year amid challenges, according to a BIA report.

January 31, 2025 - 7 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Alchemab Therapeutics receives £1.7M grant to work on therapy for Huntington’s disease

Alchemab Therapeutics has been awarded a grant of £1.7 million ($2 million) from Innovate UK’s Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) 2022 funding competition to accelerate development of a first-in-class disease modifying therapy for Huntington’s disease. Working in collaboration with Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), Alchemab is carrying out preclinical studies to progress its panel of antibodies towards first […]

December 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 30 Aug 2022

Artificial intelligence-based algorithm to be used for reporting of lymph node status in colon cancer

A collaboration looking at the development of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital pathology solution to detect cancer within lymph nodes from colorectal surgery cases has been announced today (August 30). Indica Labs, which works in quantitative digital pathology and image management solutions, has joined forces with The Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital […]

August 30, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Jul 2022

Companies come together in fight against Dengue Fever

A vaccine to treat dengue fever, the mosquito-borne disease, is the end goal of two companies who have signed an agreement to produce and commercialize a lead candidate in the fight against the disease. Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited, a clinical-stage biotech company, recently announced that it has agreed a collaboration with the Molecular Biology Institute […]

July 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 16 Jan 2017

The UK Steps Up its Game in Automated CRISPR Gene Editing

Horizon Discovery now has full access to CRISPR technology and will develop an automated gene editing platform in collaboration with Solentim. Horizon Discovery, based in Cambridge, UK, uses gene editing technology to create custom cell lines for research. To step up its game, the company has upgraded its existing license with ERS Genomics‘ to obtain […]

January 16, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Interview 28 Nov 2016

Needle-Free Diabetes Monitoring: Interview with the Co-Founder of GlucoWise

The needle-free revolution for diabetes is coming! We interviewed Panos Kosmas, co-founder of MediWise, to get the juicy details of GlucoWise. This revolutionary wireless device could free the more than 422 million people living with diabetes worldwide from the daily pain of conventional glucose monitoring. Panos Kosmas is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of MediWise, a […]

November 28, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 5 Jul 2016

“CRISPR is highly fragmented, with too many approaches. We bring it all together”

The problem with CRISPR, is that not many people are actually experts in the field, and there are only a select few who worked on it pre-2013. So how did this UK Startup make a big name for itself in field of the ‘Biotech Breakthrough of the Century’? Desktop Genetics is a startup founded in 2012 by three […]

July 5, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 23 Feb 2016

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

Desktop Genetics, a small bioinformatics start-up out of London, has won a substantial grant to understand why some cancer cells just won’t quit. To do this, it relies on CRISPR, their expertise with genetic data, and research from Imperial College London. Desktop Genetics has already proven that it can move some money, with a €1.87 […]

February 23, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 24 Feb 2015

Cobra Biologics and Manchester University Awarded €296.4K

The University of Manchester and Cobra Biologics, biologics and pharmaceuticals manufacturer, have been awarded €296.4K by Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The project is one of the only 23 which will share almost €27.3M given away by the competition that intends to bring innovative biotechnology projects to market. The joint […]

February 24, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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U.K. biotech defies the odds, raising £3.5B in 2024

Alchemab Therapeutics receives £1.7M grant to work on therapy for Huntington’s disease

Artificial intelligence-based algorithm to be used for reporting of lymph node status in colon cancer

Companies come together in fight against Dengue Fever

The UK Steps Up its Game in Automated CRISPR Gene Editing

Needle-Free Diabetes Monitoring: Interview with the Co-Founder of GlucoWise

“CRISPR is highly fragmented, with too many approaches. We bring it all together”

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

Cobra Biologics and Manchester University Awarded €296.4K

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