The longitudinal history of medicines innovation: Part two
The second of a two-part article, CRA’s Life Sciences Practice team, along with experts at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, recently conducted a landscape review of how complex pharmaceutical innovation happens in practice, leveraging three therapy area case studies:
CN Bio appoints Neil Rumbelow as Director of Product Development
Key senior appointment to drive research and development activities for portfolio of PhysioMimix OOC microphysiological systems
SPT Labtech launches firefly® for LDT to streamline liquid handling in NGS-based Laboratory Developed Tests
New software features and enhancements have been designed to support the rigorous and expanding needs of clinical laboratories
Essex family donates £10 million to new Cambridge Children’s Hospital
The Julius Jones Trust – a UK charity dedicated to raising vital funds to support NHS services – yesterday presented Dame Mary Archer, Co-Chair of the Cambridge Children’s Hospital Fundraising Campaign, with a donation of £10m.
Expanding Springboard’s commitment to delivering user-centred excellence
Introducing our new senior Human Factors lead: Marcu Agunloye.
MedTech product design: balancing constraints for commercial success
At Team Consulting, we have been helping our clients develop elegant solutions to complex healthcare challenges for 37 years. One of the key challenges in this space is how to cost effectively innovate in the highly constrained and regulated world of MedTech product design.
Industry leaders join forces for women’s health webinar – Wednesday 8 November 23
Dr Mark Slack, chief medical officer and co-founder of CMR Surgical and a consultant gynaecologist, is one of four industry experts participating in a roundtable discussion aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of women’s health conditions.
Veronique Errington-May has joined Salus Wellness
Salus Wellness writes...We are very pleased to announce that Veronique Errington-May has joined Salus Wellness this month.
The role of prototypes in the product design process
With the growing popularity of digital product design and UX design the word prototypes is becoming synonymous with digital mock-ups and testing apps.
Service with a smile: Guardtech Group helping firms maintain the highest standards
Cleanroom construction specialists’ Service Department giving Medical Device manufacturers and wider Life Sciences community the ultimate peace of mind
angli-EAR Hearing continues to invest in their clinical team
Experience an elevated standard of hearing healthcare with angli-EAR Hearing in Great Shelford. Meet our dedicated team members, including passionate audiologist Sanjam Makkar and experienced Audiologist N’Gadie Roberts. Discover how we're committed to improving lives through personalised care and expert services.
Time to plan the Christmas party! Tips from HR
A Christmas party can help prevent morale from flagging at this time of year. Here are a few tips from HR to help ensure your party goes without a hitch.
New research - Psoriasis not caused by spontaneous mutations in skin cells
Psoriasis — a chronic skin condition — is not caused or spread by spontaneous genetic mutations in the skin, new research suggests.
The longitudinal history of medicines innovation: Part One
This article is originally published in PharmaPhorum.
Celebrating our Centres – London UCLH
This week we spoke to the team in London at BioResource Centre UCLH about what they’ve been working on and their priorities ahead. Learn about PPIE activity, what various members of the team have to say, how volunteer data is being used, and plans to engage underrepresented groups in the future.
Strategies for combination therapy in oncology: Part one – Business as usual
This is the first in a three-part series examining the commercial dynamics surrounding combination therapy in oncology across the US and Europe.
Cambridge-based electronRx to attend CES® 2024 in Las Vegas
Cambridge-based health tech innovator electronRx is attending the Consumer Technology Association event, CES® in Las Vegas in January 2024 The company will showcase its innovative technology that will revolutionise patient long-term and chronic condition management and understand
Optibrium introduces cloud-based version of StarDrop drug discovery platform
Cloud-based version of StarDrop retains all the functionality and interactivity of desktop version with improved accessibility and lower total cost of ownership for customers. Optibrium recently received ISO 27001 accreditation for its information security system.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria mapped in Ghana
Some strains of heavily antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Ghana are not successful at spreading outside of the hospital, suggesting that control measures can be focused on clinical settings to help curb treatment-resistant infections.
Accelerating patient access to cell and gene therapies
The first human genome was deciphered two decades ago (an astronomical effort that took 13 years and about $3 billion), and at th
Cambridge study reveals health impact of eating disorders
People affected are twice as likely to suffer from multiple health problems.
24/7 hospital transfer service is first in country
An adult ambulance service dedicated to transferring critically ill and injured patients between hospitals in the East of England has become the first in the country to operate around the clock.
Broken String Biosciences’ INDUCE-seq platform demonstrates impact of structural DNA changes on specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
Research published in Molecular Cell used INDUCE-seq to identify DNA topology as an important regulator of CRISPR targeting specificity Peer-reviewed data demonstrates the sensitivity of INDUCE-seq DNA break mapping platform, in identifying topology-related off-target ev