Awards

CN Bio, an organ-on-a-chip (OOC) company that designs and manufactures single-and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), has received the ‘Most Impactful Industry Collaboration of the Year’ at the 2023 OBN Awards.   The award recognises the ongoing success of the company’s collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), aimed at advancing OOC adoption through evaluation […]

DDW’s Megan Thomas rounds up highlights from Tuesday 17 April at AACR 2023, from AI and mathematical oncology to winners of the AACR James S Ewing-Thelma B Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research. Clinical announcements Promising results for olaparib plus ceralasertib Today, results from the Phase I portion of the Phase […]

DDW’s Megan Thomas rounds up highlights from Monday 16 April at AACR 2023, from promising trial results for colorectal cancer patients to updates on Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. Clinical announcements  Data on colorectal cancer patients with African ancestry Today, data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting showed that genomic profiling of patients who were treated […]

DDW’s Megan Thomas rounds up highlights from Sunday 16 April at AACR 2023, from promising trial results for a personalised mRNA-based cancer vaccine to winners of lifetime achievement awards. Opening plenary session Sunday’s opening plenary session borrowed its name from the Annual Meeting theme, “Advancing the Frontiers of Cancer Science and Medicine”, which kicked off […]

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honour the following cancer researchers, physician-scientists, advocates, and journalists during its annual meeting to be held April 14-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Carl H June, MD, FAACR – Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research June, a Fellow of the AACR Academy, is the Richard W Vague Professor […]

Neuroscientist Yichao Yu has been chosen to receive ELRIG’s Research & Innovation 2023 Early Career Professional Impact Award. Yu is a neuroscientist at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. He develops and utilises innovative technologies such as magnetomechanical stimulation (MMS) to remotely and precisely manipulate brain cells with magnets and magnetic materials. He […]

The finalists for the SLAS2023 New Product Award have been revealed ahead of the meeting next week.  The New Product Award (NPA) will be presented to up to three winning product entries during SLAS2023. Recipients of the award will receive an official New Product Award plaque and additional media coverage related to the award.  The […]

Dr Nevan Krogan, Founder of the UC San Francisco (UCSF) Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG) and Director of QBI, has been awarded France’s Legion of Honor.  The award was given for forming an international research collaboration and for scientific contributions utilising a novel methodology of identifying the viral modifications of human proteins […]

Jeffrey Fisher, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at ScitoVation, has been awarded the 2022 Society of Toxicology Arnold J. Lehman Award for his career-long body of work on physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) and biologically based dose response (BBDR) modeling tools to improve risk assessment.   Fisher’s accomplishments  Dr. Fisher’s work influenced many high-visibility risk-based regulatory decisions by […]

AstraZeneca has launched a global R&D Postdoctoral Challenge to help accelerate ideas to transform the treatment of some of the world’s most complex diseases. Successful proposals will secure fully funded postdoctoral research positions. The challenge The challenge, launched at EXPO 2020 Dubai, invites final year MD and/or PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from across the […]

FRAME, a medical research charity that aims to reduce the number of animals used in scientific testing, has awarded a total of £29,000 to three projects with the potential to replace animal use in biomedical research.  The award  FRAME’s innovation grant funding stream is designed to provide small grants to enable the next generation of […]

With SLAS2022 confirmed to go ahead as both an in-person and hybrid event, the Innovation Award finalist presentations will take place on February 8, from 10AM- 5PM, and will be live-streamed to the online audience.   What is the SLAS Innovation Award? The SLAS Innovation Award consists of a $10,000 check presented to a winning presenting […]

Sartorius was named the award winner for “Overall Best Bioprocessing Supplier” at the Europe Bioprocessing Excellence Awards 2021.   According to award organizer IMAPAC, the awards seek to recognise exceptional bioprocessing experts, organisations, and technologies that facilitate biomanufacturing excellence at enhanced speed, reduced cost, and superior quality across Europe and the rest of the world.  “Sartorius is proud of […]

Certara’s Simcyp Covid-19 vaccine model has won an R&D 100 Award, which recognises the top 100 “R&D pioneers and their revolutionary ideas in science and technology” during the year.    The model has been used by major pharmaceutical companies and allows researchers to study how a vaccine is handled by the human body in computer-generated, virtual populations.    Piet van der Graaf, […]

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded approximately $36.3 million to three academic institutions to conduct research to develop vaccines to protect against multiple types of coronaviruses and viral variants. The awards are intended to fuel vaccine research for a diverse family of […]

Thread, a technology and service provider for decentralised clinical trials, has been awarded a Frost & Sullivan award. The company scooped the Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Customer Value Leadership Award in the decentralised clinical trials industry. “Thread’s innovations via its decentralised trials platform are sure to progress the industry to a hybrid system between a […]