Companies and People News for June 2014

Companies and People News Archive

OCE and OBI partner with CQDM on $3 million inter-provincial drug discovery innovation programs OCE and OBI partner with CQDM on $3 million inter-provincial drug discovery innovation programs

Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) are partnering with CQDM to bring an additional $3 million to two programs dedicated to breakthrough technologies to accelerate drug discovery and development.

MRC Technology Sells Its Melanocortin Receptors Programme to Pfizer Inc.

Small molecules developed in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London

MRC brings industry and academia together in new approach to accelerate dementias research MRC brings industry and academia together in new approach to accelerate dementias research

The Medical Research Council (MRC) has launched the UK Dementias Research Platform (UKDP), a £16 million public-private partnership set up to speed up research into dementias. The collaboration aims to enable earlier detection, improved treatment and, ultimately, prevention of the disease, by looking not just at what is going wrong in the brain, but at the brain in the context of the whole body.

Royal Society of Chemistry Outlines its Conference for Lab Innovations 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Outlines its Conference for Lab Innovations 2014

The free-to-attend Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) conference, hosted at Lab Innovations on 5 & 6 November 2014 at Birmingham’s NEC will focus on a select group of overarching themes, including Horizon 2020 Funding, Energy, Environment, Sustainable Labs, Health & Safety, Training and Legislation.