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Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre set to Transform UK Pharma Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre set to Transform UK Pharma

Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Renfrewshire, Scotland, has topped out . The facility is set to develop next-generation pharmaceutical manufacturing processes from early 2022

ELRIG UK Announces Drug Discovery 2021 Event to Host SLAS’s Innovation AveNEW ELRIG UK Announces Drug Discovery 2021 Event to Host SLAS’s Innovation AveNEW

• ELRIG Drug Discovery 2021, ACC Liverpool, UK, 19–20 October• Face-to-face event aims to re-connect, re-invent, and re-imagine drug discovery• SLAS’s Innovation AveNEW promotes start-ups by awarding free-of-charge exhibition space and access to a network of potential business partners

High School Grad’s Spacebound Study Began With Astronaut Medical Mystery High School Grad’s Spacebound Study Began With Astronaut Medical Mystery

Wallops Flight Facility, VA. August 10, 2021 - An 18-year-old high school graduate has developed an elegant new way to gauge the liver health of astronauts—and it could someday help solve an enduring medical mystery in space.

New RVC-Sanger research examines the impact of mass drug administration on the genome of a major parasitic disease New RVC-Sanger research examines the impact of mass drug administration on the genome of a major parasitic disease

A new study, produced in partnership between the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Imperial College and the Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Disease Control Division of the Ministry of Health, Uganda, has been published in Nature Communications. This research paves the way for a more effective genomic surveillance of schistosomiasis, a major human parasite. The study represents the largest fine-scale genomic investigation into the impact of repeated, long-term mass drug administration (MDA) of children and at-risk adults on populations of schistosome parasites.

Digital brain biomarker start-up Monument Therapeutics appoints Acacia and Arakis founder Julian Gilbert to Board Digital brain biomarker start-up Monument Therapeutics appoints Acacia and Arakis founder Julian Gilbert to Board

Manchester, UK, August 11, 2021: Monument Therapeutics, a stratified medicine company, today announced Monument Therapeutics the appointment of Dr Julian Gilbert to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. Monument recently raised £2.625 million in seed funding and applies a novel drug development strategy, leveraging digital assessments of cognition to match patients with new pharmaceutical treatments. The company has a pipeline of promising drug development programmes, with the most advanced two being for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and post-operative cognitive dysfunction (“POCD”).

Genetic Analysis co-develops HumGut – the world’s first complete database of reference genomes from the human gut microbiome Genetic Analysis co-develops HumGut – the world’s first complete database of reference genomes from the human gut microbiome

(Oslo, August 5, 2021) Molecular diagnostics specialist, Genetic Analysis AS (GA) today announced the first publication from the comprehensive HumGut microbiome database has appeared in the leading scientific journal Microbiome. HumGut comprises a collection of about 30,000 genomes, covering the broad diversity of bacterial genomes found in the human gut. Unique to HumGut is that the genome collection has been filtered towards nearly 6000 metagenomes from healthy humans, classifying on average 95% of all metagenome reads and making it superior to all other genome collections. This work is funded by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and GA with support from the Research Council of Norway through an Industrial PhD program.

Bruntwood SciTech creates new director of life sciences role Bruntwood SciTech creates new director of life sciences role

New role for Dr Kath Mackay reflects ambitions of Bruntwood SciTech and growth of the UK’s life sciences sector