CPI has announced (27th August) the signing of partnership agreements with Siemens plc, Perceptive Engineering LTD and Process Systems Enterprise LTD (PSE), making them a part of the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre collaboration. The partnership agreements will help strengthen the UK’s position as a global leader in pharmaceutical manufacturing through the development of continuous manufacturing innovations. Each partner will contribute to the development of a digital manufacturing solution, which will help the pharmaceutical industry as it moves towards smaller batches of more personalised medicines that require faster and more efficient manufacture.
31 August, 2020
The topics of this month’s newsletter from Drug Discovery Today are “Cancer and Drug Delivery”
27 August, 2020
Avacta has appointed Neil Bell, a highly experienced pharmaceutical and biotech industry executive, to lead the ongoing transition to a clinical stage biotech developing innovative cancer therapies
14 August, 2020
CPI, an independent technology innovation centre and founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult, has today announced a partnership with Perceptive Engineering and FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies. The companies will develop a data-driven solution to improve efficiencies during downstream biologics processing, reducing the cost of manufacturing life-saving therapies.
13 August, 2020
Sweden’s policy of allowing the controlled spread of Covid-19 viral infection among the population has so far failed to deliver the country’s previously stated goal of herd immunity. Commenting on recent antibody testing clinical and research findings, authors of a paper published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, write that Sweden’s higher rates of viral infection, hospitalisation and mortality compared with neighbouring countries may have serious implications for Scandinavia and beyond.
12 August, 2020
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected to grow in the coming years. Here, Katie Gray, marketing manager at Lab Innovations 2020, the largest laboratory event in the UK, looks at why labs will need to become more adaptable.
10 August, 2020
Avacta and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine collaborate to clinically validate saliva-based rapid coronavirus test being developed with Cytiva
10 August, 2020