Clinical research

Six UK universities have collectively received £4.25 million as part of a collaborative project aimed at finding new treatments for motor neurone disease (MND).  The MND Collaborative Partnership was launched by LifeArc, MND Association, MND Scotland and My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, alongside government bodies Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health and Care […]

Eugene Polini, Technical Key Account Manager at Datwyler examines the challenges drug developers are facing to speed up production lifecycles and what solutions are available to them.  While people around the world hope to never see another global pandemic in their lifetimes, it is the responsibility of pharmaceutical manufacturers to prepare for the next one by […]

Biopharma company Biomunex Pharmaceuticals has appointed a new chief scientific officer (CSO) to the company and member of its scientific advisory board.   The company has appointed Dr Simon Plyte as CSO who joins Biomunex to help strengthen its R&D strategy.   Dr Plyte brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, spanning over two decades in R&D […]

Genetic Analysis has announced a Service Agreement with Eurofins ADME Bioanalysis, a CRO who have launched a standardised gut microbiome test (GA-map Dysbiosis Test).  Gut microbiome profiling is required as a surrogate endpoint or exploratory biomarker in clinical trials. This is due to both the impact new pharmaceuticals can have on microbiomes and the fact that the […]

Brooks Automation and Cleveland Clinic have opened a 22,000-square-foot biospecimen sample management and repository facility on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus.   The biorepository is managed by Azenta Life Sciences, Brooks’ recently re-branded life sciences division, and includes ultra-cold and cryogenic storage for researchers at Cleveland Clinic and other institutions. The new facility increases biobanking capacity at Cleveland Clinic […]

Clinical researchers can now benefit from a new range of fully compliant and sustainable refrigerators designed specifically for the cold storage of blood and blood-related products and samples.   The Thermo Scientific TSB Series of blood bank refrigerators are built to comply with the Class IIa regulation 93/42/CE. Factory presets to +4°C enable all models to meet blood storage guidelines, […]

The design for two new trials investigating opicapone in the treatment of non-motor symptoms in patients with motor fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) have been presented at the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society’s Virtual Congress (MDS Virtual Congress 2021). Usually associated with motor symptoms, opicapone is a once-daily catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor, approved in Europe for the treatment of end-of-dose motor […]

By Amanda Turner, Senior Product Manager for Custom Antibody Products at Bio-Rad and Laura Moriarty, Senior Marketing Manager at Bio-Rad The global market for therapeutic antibodies represents a huge and ever-expanding opportunity for pharmaceutical developers, with the market for monoclonal antibody therapies alone being estimated to reach $300 billion by 2025.1 However, the value of […]

Monument Therapeutics, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, has announced a preclinical study to support the use of their non-invasive biomarker for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.  Currently, there are no treatments on the market for cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia, despite efforts by pharmaceutical companies over the last decade. One of the recognised limitations of previous […]

GlobalData’s report, ‘Thematic Research: Microbiome-Targeted Therapeutics in Immunology’, reveals that 23 microbiome-targeting therapeutics are currently being developed in the US and the 5EU (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) for gastrointestinal (GI), dermatological, and respiratory conditions. Each of these therapies aims to address these diseases by manipulating the microbiome. Microbiome is a space with high potential, […]