A female-led start-up developing a live biotherapeutic product to address infant gut needs, has raised £1.3M ($1.5M) in equity and grant funding. BoobyBiome, founded by scientists Dr Lydia Mapstone, Dr Sioned Jones and Tara O’Driscoll, aims to develop a novel product for babies who do not have access to… Read More
The latest cohort of companies have joined the Venture Lab acceleration programme for early-stage companies, created by non-profit foundation the BioInnovation Institute (BII). Designed to help build research-based ideas with high-growth commercial potential into viable start-ups, BII’s 12-month Venture Lab programme supports business acceleration, scientific and team development. It provides… Read More
Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: From AI to 3D deep-learning research to biologics, Lu Rahman selects some interesting global start-ups pushing the boundaries in drug discovery. Owkin French-American startup, Owkin is focussed on using artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and develop better treatments for… Read More
More than half of all scientific research is irreproducible, and more than 80% of scientific research data is being lost within 20 years. In the biomedical field alone, irreproducible research costs the industry £28 billion (US$38 billion) every year. Megan Thomas talks to Founder of Labstep Jake Schofield, about… Read More
Ten start-up companies working at the interface of biomedical and data science are to receive personalised mentoring and coaching as part of the KQ Labs accelerator programme, run by the Francis Crick Institute and funded by the medical research charity LifeArc in partnership with Cancer Research UK and UK SPINE. What will… Read More
Jenny Bailey, CEO of Ferryx tells Lu Rahman how its leading product FX856 came to life and how it’s a game-changer for inflammatory bowel disease since it can act during active inflammation. Ferryx is an innovative bio-tech start-up. It is a University of Bristol spin-out with a focus on gut… Read More
A University of Edinburgh business-support programme has partnered with Cancer Research UK to help build startup companies focused on tackling cancer. The charity will fund up to ten participants in the second round of the university’s Data-Driven Entrepreneurship (DDE) Venture Builder Incubator, which supports postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and academic staff… Read More
Monument Therapeutics, a stratified medicine company, today announced Monument Therapeutics the appointment of Dr Julian Gilbert to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. Monument recently raised £2.625 million in seed funding and applies a novel drug development strategy, leveraging digital assessments of cognition to match patients with new pharmaceutical treatments. Read More
Covimro, a British biotech start-up, has developed a food-grade compound which has demonstrated its efficacy against the flu virus in an animal model study carried out by A-IR Clinical Research and Pharmidex Pharmaceutical Services. The in vivo testing analysed Covimro’s antiviral capability against an infection of Influenza A H3N2, a flu variant consistent with… Read More
Angelini Pharma and Lumira have launched the Angelini Lumira Biosciences Fund (ALBF), which has been established to invest in early-stage companies in Canada and U.S. markets that are developing pharmaceutical therapies for central nervous system disorders (CNS) and rare diseases. The ALBF will be managed by Lumira Ventures and Angelini… Read More
DDW Editor Lu Rahman selects three Canadian start-ups worth watching: AbCellera Biologics, BlueRock Therapeutics and Deep Genomics. AbCellera Biologics AbCellera Biologics was founded in 2012 as a spin out from the University of British Colombia. The company searches, decodes, and analyses natural immune systems to find antibodies that can be… Read More
Ferryx won ‘Best Elevator Pitch’ at SETsquared Bristol’s Tech-Xpo. Tech-Xpo is a flagship pitch, demo, connect showcase, providing a platform for start-ups to showcase their innovative technologies and raise investment in Bristol, UK. Founded in 2019 as a spin-out from the University of Bristol, Ferryx is dealing with the lack… Read More
Scispot.io, a life science digitisation and automation company, has launched a digital operating platform for life science leaders and scientists which will allow entrepreneurs to start and virtually run their biotech startups from garages, coffee shops or anywhere innovation is born. The company’s mission is to create a digital life… Read More
RSV is a complicated virus, and traditional vaccine methods have not worked. But UW’s Institute for Protein Design may have solved the problem using computational design. With the help of an innovative computer program, Icosavax has constructed virus-like particles (VLPs) using a two-part assembly (like a soccer ball). Adam Simpson,… Read More
Jane Theaker, Kinomica explains why she was so impressed with the preclinical datasets predicting for drug response that the company could produce, she decided to join as CEO. Kinomica is a spin out offering phosphoproteomic analyses to the pharmaceutical industry. Theaker has R&D expertise in novel diagnostic technologies. Her experience… Read More
Luis Valente, CEO & Co-Founder of iLoF, has been recognized by Forbes as one of the top 30 under 30 for science and healthcare. He told Lu Rahman what’s behind his start-up that recently secured $1 million in investment from Microsoft’s Venture Fund, M12 and Mayfield Fund and won the… Read More
