Companies and People News for May 2022

Companies and People News Archive

Patient centricity in drug innovation and packaging design to take centre stage at Connect in Pharma in Geneva this September Patient centricity in drug innovation and packaging design to take centre stage at Connect in Pharma in Geneva this September

Talk from Roche engineer Tiffany McIntire will highlightopportunities for the pharma sector to reinvent packaging to bemore focused on patient needs in areas such as medication takenorally

Getting Better With Age – Conference Set To Tackle UK’s “Ticking Time Bomb” of Age-Related IllnessesAlderley Park conference aims to improve therapeutics for the UK’s ageing population Getting Better With Age – Conference Set To Tackle UK’s “Ticking Time Bomb” of Age-Related IllnessesAlderley Park conference aims to improve therapeutics for the UK’s ageing population

Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) is hosting UK SPINE, ‘Healthspan vs. lifespan: New medicines to close the gap’ - a conference on ageing, which aims to tackle one of the UK’s most pressing healthcare challenges.

EIT Health Catapult 2022 names health start-up winners EIT Health Catapult 2022 names health start-up winners

The EIT Health Catapult 2022 competition winners, selected from 9 finalists, are digital health start-up, Ebenbuild; medtech start-up, Leuko and biotech start-up, SolasCure. The winners were chosen during this year’s EIT Health Summit at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, which took place 24th-25th May. Previous winners have enjoyed major acquisitions and impressive levels of funding – with two participants from the 2020 competition recently attracting the interest of prominent biotech and digital health companies.

New £20m Life Sciences Fund Launches to Support SMEs In Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington New £20m Life Sciences Fund Launches to Support SMEs In Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington

‘GMC Life Sciences Fund by Praetura’ aims to bolster Greater Manchester and Cheshire and Warrington’s flourishing life sciences sector. The fund, raised by partners including Bruntwood SciTech, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), will be deployed by Manchester-based Praetura Ventures. The fund will be launched with an initial £20m with the aim of supporting innovation and growing the region’s knowledge economy, creating more skilled jobs and helping businesses to expand internationally