Innovation

Pangaea Data has been awarded a strategic partnership by the newly established Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC).   Pangaea is a provider of a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-driven product for characterising patients by automatically discovering clinical signatures for 4,000 hard-to-diagnose conditions in an evolving, privacy-preserving and scalable manner.   M-RIC will be applying Pangaea’s […]

Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March), DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode one, A Welcome to SLAS 2023, which includes two comment pieces. Thomas wrote the first one, We […]

The 2023 ELRIG Research & Innovation conference will take place on March 29-30. The event will discuss how emerging biology and cutting-edge technologies are pioneering the medicines of tomorrow.  Next year’s R&I meeting will focus on cutting edge innovation, comprising the following four main sessions: Synthetic biology; Healthy ageing; Ultra-rare disease drug discovery and personalised […]

An initial 100 organisations have signed an agreement to support, promote and enhance innovation in the Greater Cambridge area.  Signatories to the ‘Innovate Cambridge Charter’ also hope to develop a set of ecosystem-wide initiatives that ensure Cambridge continues to compete effectively on the international stage in the future.  Cambridge Enterprise, Cambridge Innovation Capital, and the […]

DDW Deputy Editor Reece Armstrong recently attended the Invest in Toulouse Virtual Round Table to find out how the city is establishing itself as a place of exciting research in the healthcare sectors.   Hosted by Jean-Claude Dardelet, the city’s Deputy Mayor, the roundtable examined how Toulouse is becoming an international destination for companies across various […]

When he was 17 years old, Joe Landolina created a revolutionary gel. Now, he is 29 years old and co-founder and CEO of Cresilon, his homegrown Brooklyn-based biotech company that recently submitted the gel for FDA 510(k) clearance for human use and raised $38.5 million in Series A3 financing last year. DDW’s Megan Thomas caught […]

At the end of last month, DDW’s Megan Thomas attended ELRIG’s Research & Innovation 2022: Innovations for Tomorrow’s Drug Discovery, at The King’s Centre in Oxford, UK. The four sessions addressed aspects of innovation across drug discovery and placed an emphasis on both the digital age and novel modalities: Omics technology innovations; The future of […]

In this whitepaper, we will expand on key factors – cost, time, and innovation – and illustrate how integrating these factors will minimise the challenges and ensure success in outsourcing drug discovery. Learn about: Opportunities, options, and outsourcing of drug discovery programs Hidden costs vs. hidden value Impact on timelines How innovation is driving success […]

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 […]

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 the selected companies receive?   The new cohort, consisting […]

Given the unexpected couple of years we have had as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the drug discovery sector is no doubt looking forward to an in-person event at last. ELRIG UK’s Drug Discovery 2021 will take place at the ACC, Liverpool, UK on 19-20 October.  DDW has teamed up with ELRIG UK to produce an exclusive supplement containing insight from experts across the […]

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 to develop their startup ideas for three months. […]

While the global vaccine roll-out continues, the role of therapeutic antibodies to combat Covid-19 should not be overlooked. Now researchers have identified a novel class of antibodies that appears to have an ability to neutralise the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 and be able to block some of the recent mutations of the virus. Ossianix, an […]