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State of the Discovery Nation 2019

The 2019 edition of the State of the Discovery Nation report by the Medicines Discovery Catapult and the BIA reveals a thriving service and supply sector for the UK in addition to its R&D biotech’s. It also highlights two breakthrough technologies set to influence the future of medicines discovery and maintain the UK’s global competitiveness. Key […]

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Webinar – State of the Discovery Nation 2019

In association with the BioIndustry Association (BIA), we have conducted our second review of the State of the Discovery Nation. This year, the report reviews the size and shape of the sector, and then focusses on two technology areas that are set to influence the future of Medicines Discovery: Complex (pre-clinical) cell models (CCMs) Artificial […]

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Organ-on-a-chip Technologies (OOAC) – Current status and translatability of data

A joint report by Medicines Discovery Catapult, the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Drug Safety Science (CDSS), based at the University of Liverpool, and the National Centre for the Replacement Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) Experts from across academia, research, pharma, UK SMEs and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency […]

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Data Access Quick Guides

We have produced a series of Data Access Guides for a number of the major UK data suppliers that summarise the data they contain and how you might access it as an SME: Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Provides real-world retrospective and prospective research services based on UK population electronic medical records NHS Digital Offers […]

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State of the Discovery Nation 2018

State of the Discovery Nation 2019 is now available. The Medicines Discovery Catapult and BioIndustry Association call on the R&D community to address five themes to help boost productivity This report, based on surveys and over 100 in-depth interviews with senior executives of UK drug discovery companies, shows that global R&D productivity is under unprecedented […]

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Posters

Characterisation of Human Derived Microglial Cells Presented at SLAS Europe 2019 View the poster > Enabling better access to healthcare data for the UK SME community View the poster > Pharmacokinetic Profiling and Tissue Distribution Studies of Liposome Encapsulated SN38 Therapeutic Microbubbles using89Zr Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Presented at ELRIG 2018 View the poster > […]

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Publications

Meeting the discovery challenge of drug-resistant infections: progress and focusing resources Read the full article at Drug Discovery Today > Discovery Science & Technology Organ-on-a-chip technology: turning its potential for clinical benefit into reality Read the full article at Drug Discovery Today > Acoustic mist ionization platform for direct and contactless ultrahigh-throughput MS analysis of […]

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