Healthcare and Life Science
Endomag being sold to US firm for $310m
Cambridge breast cancer pioneer Endomag is set to become the latest UK bio business snapped up by America. The privately owned company is to be acquired by Hologic Inc – a NASDAQ-quoted firm based in Marlborough, Massachusetts – for $310 million. ...
Sphere Fluidics appoints Dale Levitzke as Chief Executive Officer
Dale Levitzke joins as Dr. Frank F. Craig, current CEO and co-founder, announces his retirement after leading the Company for 14 years. ...
PlaqueTec closes $8 million equity financing
The financing was led by Lord Moynihan of Chelsea alongside The Future Fund, with support from existing investors Funding will support ongoing BIOPATTERN trial and build BIOCARTA database to transform the treatment of CAD Cambridge, UK, 30 April 2024: PlaqueTec, a company identifyi...
Communigage wins UK Enterprise Award
Here at Communigage, a messaging and employer brand strategy consulting firm for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we are thrilled to announce that we have been chosen as the winner of the 2024 SME News UK Enterprise Award for Best New SME Consulting Firm. This prestigious awar...
Global pharma companies’ return on R&D investment increases after record low
Projected return on innovation in pharma R&D in 2023 has risen to 4.1 per cent, indicating a potential recovery from the long term downward trend in R&D productivity; The top 20 global pharmaceutical companies spent $145 billion on R&D investments in 2022-23*; AI is yet to...
Asimov achieves 10x improvement in lentiviral production, launches new stable cell line development service
Stable lentiviral (LV) cell line development service achieves unconcentrated titers >1E9 TU/mL for therapeutic transgenes. Fully stable cell lines have all viral genes and transgene stably integrated, enabling biomanufacturing scalability and a more robust production process. T...
Guardtech Group off to a stormer in 2024 as action-packed quarter one flies by
Haverhill-based cleanroom design & build experts are working on more than 20 significant projects concurrently – an all-time high ...
How baby Aurelia’s story delights international experts
An international conference that heard about an Addenbrooke’s invention that can save babies lives received a surprise input from two unexpected guests – the parents of one of the first babies to benefit from it. ...
Registration open for our Scientific Conference in June
We are excited to announce that you can now secure your spot for the 2nd NIHR BioResource Scientific Conference, taking place online on Wednesday 19 June 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm. ...
A critical time for AI, dementia and better brain health
Ahead of BioBeat24, Iraida Soria-Espinosa, Senior Innovation & Business Manager at UK DRI, and Miranda Weston-Smith, Founder of BioBeat, caught up with keynote speaker Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. ...