Dr. Gary Allenby and Kathy Dodgson, founders and directors of Aurelia Bioscience, are pleased to announce that after 10 years of success as a standalone biology contract research organisation, the company has been acquired by its collaborator- Charnwood Molecular. To facilitate this agreement, Aurelia Bioscience,...
Charnwood Molecular, a leading UK-based pre-clinical discovery CRO servicing the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology market, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the assay development and biological screening provider, Aurelia Bioscience. The sector-leading expertise and technology development within Aurelia Bioscience will enable and enhance Charnwood’s provision...
BioCity Nottingham based Sygnature Discovery has announced the set-up of a state-of-the-art Early Candidate Developability Screening Group. Located at its headquarters in Nottingham, UK, the new service line will expand on the company’s offerings to customers by bridging into formal preclinical drug development and paving...
Image credit: edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk/ Accelerator alumni Dyneval has taken one of the two biggest prizes in the Scottish EDGE awards, winning the top biotech award, sponsored by iBioIC. The second winner Waterwhelm received the Higgs EDGE award for science, tech and engineering businesses. Both awards are worth...
Image credit: https://dovecote.nottingham.sch.uk/nottc/primary/dovecote/site/pages/ourschool/ourlearning/lab13 It is a long-held piece of folk wisdom that eating carrots is good for the eyesight; now children at a Nottingham primary school have devised an experiment to test how true this may be. Pupils at Dovecote Primary School in Clifton have been working...
The foremost life science event in the Midlands will be going virtual this year, as Medilink Midlands celebrates its first ever Innovation Day, sponsored by We Are Pioneer Group. Medilink Midlands Innovation Day will be held online on Tuesday 29 June, from 9:00am to 2:00pm. Over...
The last 12 months has highlighted the importance of health and life sciences businesses. In the Midlands the sector already contributes £20.5 billion to the regional GVA and is responsible for nearly 600,000 jobs, but it is still a hidden gem, why is that? That’s the question...
Prof. Claire Thompson, CEO of CDMO, consulting and communications company Agility Life Sciences, wins the inaugural One Nucleus Life Sciences Inspiration of the Year Award. The One Nucleus Life Sciences Inspiration of the Year Award, sponsored by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), is...
ILC Therapeutics, a UK-based biotechnology company and pioneer in the discovery and development of a new class of interferon drugs, announces the strengthening of its Board and Management as well as a pre-IPO funding round to advance its lead novel hybrid interferon drug candidate Alfacyte™ The...
(Left to right) Dr Magnus Nicolson, COO; Richard Boyd, CEO; Eric Beard, Chairman; Dr Andy Herbert, CTO; James Robson, CFO £5.3 million financing to complete First-in-Man safety study Led by Mercia, Downing Ventures, Old College Capital, Scottish Enterprise and Solvay Ventures; welcomes new investors Calculus...