Companies and People News for January 2020

Companies and People News Archive

New name announced for the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre’s automated platform for Just in Time pharmaceutical manufacture New name announced for the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre’s automated platform for Just in Time pharmaceutical manufacture

Innovation Centre’s automated platform for Just in Time pharmaceutical manufacture

EIT Health drives European healthcare innovation forward, awarding almost €6 million to pioneering start-ups EIT Health drives European healthcare innovation forward, awarding almost €6 million to pioneering start-ups

The participants of the EIT Health Headstart Programme will receive strong regional support and integration into the ecosystem, as well as funding to bring their innovations to the market. Headstart start-ups address disease areas and challenges from Parkinson’s to obesity, with the innovations spanning the categories of medtech, digital health and biotech.

Avacta and Daewoong Pharmaceutical Form Immunotherapy Focused Joint Venture Avacta and Daewoong Pharmaceutical Form Immunotherapy Focused Joint Venture

Joint Venture to develop next generation cell and gene therapies incorporating Affimer proteins

A new effort to tackle tuberculosis A new effort to tackle tuberculosis

Researchers at the University of Dundee are aiming to make a breakthrough against tuberculosis.

PhoreMost and Boehringer Ingelheim enter multi-project drug discovery collaboration

PhoreMost to deploy its SITESEEKER platform to identify novel targets for Boehringer Ingelheim’s discovery programmes

£1 million project launch to monitor ex-footballers for early signs of dementia £1 million project launch to monitor ex-footballers for early signs of dementia

Researchers at the University of East Anglia are crowd-funding a new project to test former professional football players for early signs of dementia.