The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded $7.4 million to support a first-of-its-kind stem cell-based gene therapy for Friedreich’s ataxia. The funding, awarded to a team at the University of California San Diego, will help researchers complete the final steps required by federal regulators before they… Read More
Biotechnology company NADMED has launched an award worth $30,000 to accelerate breakthroughs in metabolomics research. The NADMED Award 2026 is a global initiative designed to empower scientific discovery in redox biology and accelerate innovation across medicine, life sciences, and biotechnology. The award aims to enable scientists and clinicians… Read More
Cancer Research Horizons, the innovation arm of Cancer Research UK, announced the winners of its third Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards during an awards ceremony at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, London. Dr Alessia Errico, Associate Director of Search and Evaluation at Cancer Research Horizons, said: “These remarkable innovators demonstrate the determination and… Read More
Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Center for Inflammation Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his discovery of the cGAS enzyme, which senses invading pathogens and triggers the body’s innate immune system. … Read More
DDW Multimedia Editor Megan Thomas travelled to SLAS Europe from 27-29 May in Barcelona, Spain. Having attended a range of sessions and spoken to industry attendees and exhibitors, she reflects on the event. Opening keynote Professor Luis Serrano presented the opening keynote of the event on engineering… Read More
Valneva Scotland scooped two prizes at Scotland’s Life Sciences Awards 2024, including the award for Innovation – Pharma Services And Drug Discovery, in a ceremony on 14 March in Glasgow. Valneva Scotland is focused on vaccines for infectious diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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 … Read More
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… Read More
