News and Trends 9 Sep 2022
Fight against malaria boosted by findings from a vaccine trial showing high efficacy
Hope that malaria could be eradicated forever has been given a boost after new findings from a vaccine trial showed…
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News and Trends 18 Jul 2022
Oxford Science Enterprises raises £250M
Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE), the independent investment company created to found, fund and build transformational businesses via its partnership with…
News and Trends 9 Feb 2021
EMA Green Light Sends Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Into Turbulent Market
As AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine debuts in the EU market this month, supply bottlenecks, viral variants,…
News and Trends 26 Nov 2020
AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Proves Its Worth in Phase III
A much anticipated Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, achieved 70% efficacy in phase III interim…
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More News! 7 Oct 2019
UK Biotech Launches with €30M Series A to Treat Autoimmune Disease
MiroBio has spun out of the University of Oxford with a Series A round of €30M (£27M) to develop treatments…
News and Trends 24 May 2018
Organs-on-a-Chip for Drug Research in a Range of Diseases Make it to the Market
CN Bio Innovations has globally launched an organ-on-a-chip device that allows scientists to test potential drugs on living human organ…
News and Trends 30 Jun 2017
€40M in Series C for a British Biotech Treating Blindness with Gene Therapy
NightstaRx has raised €39.5M that will go towards three clinical programs testing gene therapies for rare diseases that cause blindness. …
News and Trends 22 Jun 2017
LAB282 Awards Second Funding Round to 5 Academic Projects at Oxford
Evotec and the University of Oxford have announced the academic projects that will receive a financial award to push them towards…
News and Trends 5 Jun 2017
New Dutch Biotech Gets Funding to Find Genetic Off Switches
Scenic Biotech is applying a technology to identify first-in-class therapeutic targets that has secured it €6.5M in Series A. Scenic…
News and Trends 11 Apr 2017
New Grant to Advance a Whole New Treatment Against Parkinson’s in the UK
Mission Therapeutics has received a grant to support the development of a novel approach to treating Parkinson's that is attracting…
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News and Trends 11 Mar 2017
You Can Watch Fleming’s Original Penicillin Culture in Oxford!
The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford is hosting an exhibition on the history of penicillin and the…
News and Trends 3 Mar 2017
An HIV Vaccine Eliminates the Virus in a Patient for 7 Months
An HIV vaccine developed at the University of Oxford has kept 5 out of 15 patients completely free of HIV. One of…
News and Trends 30 Jan 2017
Novo Nordisk will open a €135M Diabetes R&D Center at Oxford University
A new research center funded by Novo Nordisk will foster collaborations between its staff and researchers from the University of…
News and Trends 21 Dec 2016
Can partnerships between Biotechs and Academia be the Key to Success?
We had the opportunity to hear the story behind the successful Evotec by Thomas Hanke, Executive VP, who gave plenty of advice…
News and Trends 10 Nov 2016
Evotec chooses Oxford as Proving Ground for Academia-Industry Bridge
The German CRO has struck a deal with the University of Oxford to test a model framework for bringing academic…
News and Trends 7 Nov 2016
Results from 45% of Clinical Trials are kept Secret
A new transparency study has identified Sanofi, Novartis and GSK as the companies that keep the most clinical trial results unreported.…
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News and Trends 4 Oct 2016
One Step Closer to an HIV Cure That Can Eliminate the Latent Virus
HIV has completely disappeared from the blood of a patient in clinical trials. The new HIV treatment that can target the virus even…
News and Trends 8 Aug 2016
The Brain’s Sleep Switch was just discovered, zZz …
Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered how certain neurons control when we go to sleep. The biology behind…
News and Trends 13 Jun 2016
Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV
Immunocore has published key results for its new preclinical candidate for HIV, ImmTAV. This TCR-based immunotherapy has succeeded in targeting…
News and Trends 14 Mar 2016
Florida to release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to stop Zika Virus
Oxitec (UK) is on track to be allowed to trial their self-limiting, genetically engineered mosquitoes in the US - and…