Novel Technologies News for February 2017

Novel Technologies News Archive

IBST/EEN Partnership Building Event IBST/EEN Partnership Building Event

IBST/EEN Partnership Building EventWednesday 10 May 2017

£3.0 million investment for UK company as it brings world’s first portable fingerprint-based drug screening technology to market £3.0 million investment for UK company as it brings world’s first portable fingerprint-based drug screening technology to market

Intelligent Fingerprinting, the UK company developing the world’s first portable fingerprint-based drug screening system, has secured a further £3 million of funding from an expanded group of private US and UK investors. The investment will support the early commercialisation of the first drug screening panel, and include manufacturing scale-up and validation of the company’s first products made at its dedicated facility in Cambridge. These products are to be used widely in pilot programmes within the UK and US.

Cancer Research UK Announces Inaugural Grand Challenge Teams to Answer the Biggest Questions In Cancer Cancer Research UK Announces Inaugural Grand Challenge Teams to Answer the Biggest Questions In Cancer

Cancer Research UK today (Friday) announces that four international teams are the first recipients of its global £100m Grand Challenge competition, which aims to overcome the biggest challenges facing cancer researchers in a global effort to beat cancer sooner.